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@@ -373,3 +373,6 @@ I didn't not have any reason to _invent the hypotheses_ that I had some undiagno
 
 Men who wish they were women do not particularly resemble actual women! We just—don't? This seems pretty obvious, really?
 
+[This is something where I _actually need the right answer_]
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+Ultimately, I think this is a pedagogy decision that Eliezer got right. If you write your summary slogan in relativist language, people predictably take that as license to believe whatever they want without having to defend it. Whereas if you write your summary slogan in objectivist language—so that people know they don't have social permission to say that "it's subjective so I can't be wrong"—then you have some hope of sparking a useful discussion about the exact, precise ways that specific, definite things are, in fact, relative to other specific, definite things.

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 Scott being more sensible in a less-visible place: https://archive.is/In89y
 
 http://www.trans.cafe/posts/2016/6/27/17-signs-i-was-transgender-but-didnt-know-it
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+https://medium.com/@transstyleguide/alternatives-to-afab-and-amab-d7cf8fe20a72
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+changing emotions/accent fantasies: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/wAW4ENCSEHwYbrwtn/other-people-s-procedural-knowledge-gaps/comment/pheakgvLbFndXccXC

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 Game Theory of Stigmatization (need better title)
 
+explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
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 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
 
 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/