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diff --git a/content/drafts/standing-under-the-same-sky.md b/content/drafts/standing-under-the-same-sky.md
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@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Something that annoyed me about the portrayal of dath ilan was their incredibly
 
 You can, of course, make up any number of sensible [Watsonian](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist) rationales for this. (For example, a world with much smarter people is more "volatile"; with more ways to convert knowledge into danger, maybe you _need_ more censorship just to hold Society together.)
 
 
 You can, of course, make up any number of sensible [Watsonian](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist) rationales for this. (For example, a world with much smarter people is more "volatile"; with more ways to convert knowledge into danger, maybe you _need_ more censorship just to hold Society together.)
 

-I'm more preoccupied by a [Doylistic](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist) interpretation—that dath ilan's obsessive secret-keeping reflects something deep about how the Yudkowsky of the current year relates to Speech and Information, in contrast to the Yudkowsky who wrote the Sequences. The Sequences had encouraged you—yes, _you_, the reader—to be as rational as possible. In contrast, the dath ilan mythos seems to portray advanced rationality as dangerous knowledge that people need to be protected from. ["The universe is not so dark a place that everyone needs to become a Keeper to ensure the species's survival,"](https://glowfic.com/replies/1861879#reply-1861879) we're told. "Just dark enough that some people ought to."
+I'm more preoccupied by a [Doylistic](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist) interpretation—that dath ilan's obsessive secret-Keeping reflects something deep about how the Yudkowsky of the current year relates to Speech and Information, in contrast to the Yudkowsky who wrote the Sequences. The Sequences had encouraged you—yes, _you_, the reader—to be as rational as possible. In contrast, the dath ilan mythos seems to portray advanced rationality as dangerous knowledge that people need to be protected from. ["The universe is not so dark a place that everyone needs to become a Keeper to ensure the species's survival,"](https://glowfic.com/replies/1861879#reply-1861879) we're told. "Just dark enough that some people ought to."

 
 Someone at the 2021 Event Horizon Independence Day party had told me that I had been misinterpreting the "Speak the truth, even if your voice trembles" slogan from the Sequences. I had interpreted the slogan as suggesting the importance of speaking the truth _to other people_ (which I think is what "speaking" is usually about), but my interlocutor said it was about, for example, being able to speak the truth aloud in your own bedroom, to yourself. I think some textual evidence for my interpretation can be found in Daria's ending to ["A Fable of Science and Politics"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF/a-fable-of-science-and-politics):
 
 
 Someone at the 2021 Event Horizon Independence Day party had told me that I had been misinterpreting the "Speak the truth, even if your voice trembles" slogan from the Sequences. I had interpreted the slogan as suggesting the importance of speaking the truth _to other people_ (which I think is what "speaking" is usually about), but my interlocutor said it was about, for example, being able to speak the truth aloud in your own bedroom, to yourself. I think some textual evidence for my interpretation can be found in Daria's ending to ["A Fable of Science and Politics"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF/a-fable-of-science-and-politics):
 

diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
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@@ -247,23 +247,6 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 > Well, if that's love
 > It comes at much too high a cost!
 
 > Well, if that's love
 > It comes at much too high a cost!
 

-(Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle)
-> Go, Soul, the body's guest,  
-> Upon a thankless arrant:  
-> Fear not to touch the best;  
-> The truth shall be thy warrant:  
-> Go, since I needs must die,
-> And give the world the lie.  
->
-> Say to the court, it glows  
-> And shines like rotten wood;  
-> Say to the church, it shows  
-> What's good, and doth no good:  
-> If church and court reply,  
-> Then give them both the lie.  
->
-> —["The Lie"](https://www.bartleby.com/40/48.html) by Sir Walter Raleigh
-

 > Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
 > Everybody's looking for someone to blame
 > Like it's a game, like it's a game
 > Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
 > Everybody's looking for someone to blame
 > Like it's a game, like it's a game

diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
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@@ -63,12 +63,11 @@ it was actually "wander onto the AGI mailing list wanting to build a really big
 
 
 With internet available—
 
 
 With internet available—

-_ Whining-Based Communities
-_ Feynman strip club anecdote?? And reference in "In the Ruins"
-_ When did I buy the Susan Pinker book? Probably 2008 (confirm date of "Those are magnets")
-_ Ione "good things don't cancel out bad things"
-_ escort photo comment
-_ love to know some positive integer number of plans
+✓ Whining-Based Communities
+✓ love to know some positive integer number of plans
+✓ Ione "good things don't cancel out bad things"
+✓ Conversation Halters (re: things that people are motivated to argue about)
+✓ My Way

 _ "not hard to find": link to more /r/itsafetish-like anecdotes
 _ compile ancillary KP doctor's notes page and linky
 _ go back and read all the masochism tags: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/search?board_id=&author_id=366&template_id=&character_id=&subj_content=masochism&sort=created_old&condensed=on&commit=Search
 _ "not hard to find": link to more /r/itsafetish-like anecdotes
 _ compile ancillary KP doctor's notes page and linky
 _ go back and read all the masochism tags: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/search?board_id=&author_id=366&template_id=&character_id=&subj_content=masochism&sort=created_old&condensed=on&commit=Search


@@ -2109,3 +2108,14 @@ Friend of the blog Ninety-Three—
 
 Sep 27 text to "Chaya"—
 In theory, the bad influence could go both ways: first, successful playdate, then I mention to A. afterwards (not before) that C. is actually a boy and I think it's crazy everyone is pretending otherwise (which remark is out of their censorship jurisdiction); then if C. wants a repeat with new friend (far from guaranteed, but plausible), it's not your fault if A. leaks information of her own will ...
 
 Sep 27 text to "Chaya"—
 In theory, the bad influence could go both ways: first, successful playdate, then I mention to A. afterwards (not before) that C. is actually a boy and I think it's crazy everyone is pretending otherwise (which remark is out of their censorship jurisdiction); then if C. wants a repeat with new friend (far from guaranteed, but plausible), it's not your fault if A. leaks information of her own will ...

+
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3nDR23ksSQJ98WNDm/developmental-stages-of-gpts?commentId=wqaCY4hQQTuqqJ7Ma  28 July 2020
+> I'd love to know of a non-zero integer number of plans that could possibly, possibly, possibly work for not dying to a GPT-style near-term AGI.
+
+calculating whether I was "net positive"—I don't know what can be said about the relationship between quantum randomness and macroscopic outcomes, but it seems plausible that there are Everett branches where I died from that salivary stone in 2008
+
+------
+
+
+

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