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diff --git a/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md b/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Smart people in the dominant coalition have always been _very_ good at maintaini
 
 Thus, trans women are women, where by 'women' I mean people who identify as women. Appeals to conceptual parsimony ("Yes, you _could_ use language that way, but that makes it [more expensive to express](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries) [these-and-such useful real-world probabilistic inferences](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/)—") don't work on utilitarians who _explicitly_ reject parsimony in favor of "utility," where utility is estimated by back-of-the-envelope calculations that seem like they [ought to be better than nothing](https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics/), but which in practice have so many degrees of freedom that the answer is almost entirely determined by the [perceived need to appease](http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes/) whichever [utility monster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster) has made itself most politically salient to the one performing the calculation.
 
-If you can't win the argument (because the motte is genuinely a great motte) and therefore gain status by appealing to reality, and our minds are better at tracking status than reality, then eventually dissidents either accept the narrative or destroy themselves.
+If you can't win the argument (because the motte is genuinely a great motte) and therefore gain status by appealing to reality, and our minds are [better at tracking status than reality](TODO: Robin Hanson-like linky), then eventually dissidents either accept the narrative or destroy themselves.
 
 [Autogynephilic males](http://www.annelawrence.com/autogynephilia_&_MtF_typology.html) are better at large-scale coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general (as evidenced by [the patriarchy](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/patriarchy-is-the-problem/)), so once a political conflict arose between AGPs' right to choose their "gender", and women's/lesbians' right to [have a goddamned _word_](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/) to describe themselves, it was a _fait accompli_ that the group sampled from the male region in psychological configuration space would win: male psychology is [_designed_ to win costly intergroup conflicts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260849/). And in winning, they _create their own reality_.
 

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -1263,3 +1263,7 @@ https://medium.com/@katieja/young-children-reality-sex-and-gender-3421f4f165f1
 https://knowingless.com/2019/06/06/side-effects-of-preferred-pronouns/
 
 "please like think before you go around using “afab” or “amab” to refer broadly to groups of people in your tweets. neither of these categories are like coherent social categories in any way, and are often used in ways that perpetuate trans misogyny" https://twitter.com/folkpunkjunk/status/1140278990072102912
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+https://medium.com/@aytchellis/talking-past-each-other-about-trans-gender-1da8e058caf8
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+https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/teen-17-who-sparked-row-for-saying-there-are-only-two-genders-suspended-from-school-for-three-weeks-a4173736.html

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
-_ 1 July "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
+_ "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
 ✓ 2 July The Source of Our Power
-_ 3 July On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
-_ 4 July The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned 
+_ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
+_ The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned 
+_ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
+_ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
+_ How Dumb Do You Think We Are?
 
 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
 Social Strategy Notes
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
 
-"Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
 
-I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
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+
 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
 commentary on "Blegg Mode" (in response to Kosoy's objection)
 
-Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal"
+Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
 Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time)
 Research Question: Complicity
@@ -36,7 +39,6 @@ It Was a Complement!
 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
 Willie McCovington
 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
-"But It Doesn't Matter"
 One-Way Trolls