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diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
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@@ -101,5 +101,5 @@ we did not realize that _whether I should cut my dick off_ would become a politi
 
 To be fair, it's not obvious that I _shouldn't_ cut my dick off! A lot of people seem to be doing it nowadays, and a lot of them seem to be pretty happy with their decision! But in order to _decide_ whether it's a good idea, I need _accurate information_. I need an _honest_ accounting of the costs and benefits of transition, so that I can cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's a good idea, and not cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's not a good idea.
 
 
 To be fair, it's not obvious that I _shouldn't_ cut my dick off! A lot of people seem to be doing it nowadays, and a lot of them seem to be pretty happy with their decision! But in order to _decide_ whether it's a good idea, I need _accurate information_. I need an _honest_ accounting of the costs and benefits of transition, so that I can cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's a good idea, and not cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's not a good idea.
 

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 actively manufacture _fake rationality lessons_ that have been optimized to confuse me into cutting my dick off _independently_ of whether or not we live in a world
 actively manufacture _fake rationality lessons_ that have been optimized to confuse me into cutting my dick off _independently_ of whether or not we live in a world

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diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
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@@ -317,3 +317,7 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 > It's called the truth, it's called the truth
 >
 > —"True Kinda Love"
 > It's called the truth, it's called the truth
 >
 > —"True Kinda Love"

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+> In general, our society less and less encourages looking sexually attractive to other people and more and more encourages acting out inner fantasies that are unattractive to others to make yourself even more of a victim of society.
+>
+> —[Steve Sailer](http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-woke-war-on-homosexuals/)

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@@ -356,3 +356,7 @@ an implicit don't-ask-don't-tell agreement, where they certainly had clues that
 (Contrary to popular belief, it's not exactly ignorance that's bliss, but more generally lack of game-theoretic common knowledge: if they know, and I know that they know, but they don't know that I know that they know, that's often close enough.)
 
 For example, I seem to remember my first pair of breastforms mysteriously disappearing just after the time my mother unilaterally cleaned out my closet. (And a friend not long thereafter reported overhearing her telling his parents that she was pretty sure I wasn't gay.)
 (Contrary to popular belief, it's not exactly ignorance that's bliss, but more generally lack of game-theoretic common knowledge: if they know, and I know that they know, but they don't know that I know that they know, that's often close enough.)
 
 For example, I seem to remember my first pair of breastforms mysteriously disappearing just after the time my mother unilaterally cleaned out my closet. (And a friend not long thereafter reported overhearing her telling his parents that she was pretty sure I wasn't gay.)

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+my history of email exchanges with the Popular Author being demanding
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+posting on LW because it's the conversational locus https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8rYxw9xZfwy86jkpG/on-the-importance-of-less-wrong-or-another-single

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+Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization

 On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
 ✓ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
 ✓ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning