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 [TODO: State of Steven]
 
-I still wanted to finish the memoir-post mourning the "rationalists", but I still felt psychologically constraint; I was still bound by internal silencing-chains. So instead, I mostly turned to a combination of writing bitter and insulting comments whenever I saw someone praise the "rationalists" collectively (if you are silent about your pain, _they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it_), and—more philosophy-of-language blogging!
+I still wanted to finish the memoir-post mourning the "rationalists", but I still felt psychologically constraint; I was still bound by internal silencing-chains. So instead, I mostly turned to a combination of writing bitter and insulting comments whenever I saw someone praise the "rationalists" collectively, and—more philosophy-of-language blogging!
 
 In August 2019's ["Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), I explained a nuance that had only merited a passion mention in "... Boundaries?": sometimes you might want categories for different agents to _coordinate_ on, even at the cost of some statistical "fit." (This was of course generalized from a "pro-trans" argument that had occured to me, [that self-identity is an easy Schelling point when different people disagree about what "gender" they perceive someone as](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/).)
 

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+blocky sections corresponding to an "event"—
+_ Christmas party (do this today, 22 October?)
+_ Sasha disaster (dedicate a day?)
+_ the dolphin war (dedicate a day?)
+
+
 With internet available—
 _ "McCarthyist" should link to Moldbug on the "Brown Scare"
 _ check on wording of Yudkowsky's anti-Moldbug comment
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 you can't imagine contemporary Yudkowsky adhering to Crocker's rules  (http://sl4.org/crocker.html)
 
+(If you are silent about your pain, _they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it_.)