move NRxish notes from "Advisory" draftfile to general notesfile

diff --git a/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md b/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md
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--- a/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md
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@@ -36,37 +36,3 @@ POINTS FROM MY EMAIL TO BBL—
    the standard sex-ed textbooks, but not trying to dictate what the social
    norms of who should transition should be, who should pay for it,
    &c. "Infovism" rather than activism.
-
-
-NRx-inspired (sigh ... yes, unfortunately) points—
-
-(most of this should probably be split into a separate post even if I'm happening to do some outlining in this file; evil speculation shouldn't contaminate the solid "Infovism" idea/slogan)—
-
- * democracy is government by whichever memes happen to be the most virulent
- * outcomes of the long run of a one-dimensional conflict can be classified, roughly something like: Left total victory, right total victory, mutually assured destruction, and program equilibrium
-    * program equilibrium isn't easy/possible for humans
-    * the key point here is that "grant this demand, deny all others" isn't a
-      defensible Schelling point; if you yield here, the _same algorithm_ is
-      going to be running the next time
- * "Berkeley 2009 morality was just right, but this Berkeley 2017 bullshit has
-   gone _too far_!"
-    * If I were dictator, (Berkeley, 2009) could be made to work, but everyone has her own (city, year) pair
-       * for some reason I thought this was analogous to something from the
-         Coherent Extrapolated Volition document: Dennis thinks he should own
-         the world, but fairness requires that Dennis's name be erased from any
-         such request, and "some X should own the world" is underspecified"
- * remember my conversation with a certain female bio-/psychologist studying at
-   Harvard who told me that "Trans women are men with a mental illness" made
-   more sense, but that she was afraid to even think that within the privacy of
-   her own head
-    * fucking _Harvard_
- * Moldbug, "The True Meaning of Diversity": "Certainly not every party member
-   is an [X]. Most of them, in fact, are not. Nor is it absolutely guaranteed
-   that every single [X] will be a party member. But most of them, in fact,
-   are"—thus, requiring representaiton of Xes benefits the party
- * practice of deferring to designated-victim trans women _makes the trans
-   women worse people_: if you know that you can win a dispute by playing the
-   transphobia card, that incentive shapes your life (Moldbug: discussion of
-   "ignoble privilege" in "Gentle Introduction" pt. 3)
-    * kind of like how _the right to be sued_ is an important part of legal
-      personhood: the possibility of recourse is necessary for trust

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -363,3 +363,36 @@ at JCC camp, I remember saying that I wasn't the kind of guy who was interested
 Like, I used to tack the word "aspiring" in front as my preferred means of indicating that we don't think we've already solved rationality. Nowadays, I just reach for the scare quotes.
 
 While I agree that words can be used in many ways depending on context, I claim that sometimes it's useful to use this top-20 noun to refer strictly to the same thing it's always referred to for the past 200,000 years since language evolved, even if we have reasonably chosen to broaden the extension of that noun to also include other, relevantly similar things in most day-to-day contexts! Given that people are capable of inferring what is meant from the relevant context, this won't confuse anyone, and we can continue peacefully using language to describe reality. Then, we can use those descriptions of reality to formulate plans! Plans that will steer the universe into regions of configuration space that rank higher in our individual and collective preference orderings!
+
+NRx-inspired (sigh ... yes, unfortunately) points—
+
+(most of this should probably be split into a separate post even if I'm happening to do some outlining in this file; evil speculation shouldn't contaminate the solid "Infovism" idea/slogan)—
+
+ * democracy is government by whichever memes happen to be the most virulent
+ * outcomes of the long run of a one-dimensional conflict can be classified, roughly something like: Left total victory, right total victory, mutually assured destruction, and program equilibrium
+    * program equilibrium isn't easy/possible for humans
+    * the key point here is that "grant this demand, deny all others" isn't a
+      defensible Schelling point; if you yield here, the _same algorithm_ is
+      going to be running the next time
+ * "Berkeley 2009 morality was just right, but this Berkeley 2017 bullshit has
+   gone _too far_!"
+    * If I were dictator, (Berkeley, 2009) could be made to work, but everyone has her own (city, year) pair
+       * for some reason I thought this was analogous to something from the
+         Coherent Extrapolated Volition document: Dennis thinks he should own
+         the world, but fairness requires that Dennis's name be erased from any
+         such request, and "some X should own the world" is underspecified"
+ * remember my conversation with a certain female bio-/psychologist studying at
+   Harvard who told me that "Trans women are men with a mental illness" made
+   more sense, but that she was afraid to even think that within the privacy of
+   her own head
+    * fucking _Harvard_
+ * Moldbug, "The True Meaning of Diversity": "Certainly not every party member
+   is an [X]. Most of them, in fact, are not. Nor is it absolutely guaranteed
+   that every single [X] will be a party member. But most of them, in fact,
+   are"—thus, requiring representaiton of Xes benefits the party
+ * practice of deferring to designated-victim trans women _makes the trans
+   women worse people_: if you know that you can win a dispute by playing the
+   transphobia card, that incentive shapes your life (Moldbug: discussion of
+   "ignoble privilege" in "Gentle Introduction" pt. 3)
+    * kind of like how _the right to be sued_ is an important part of legal
+      personhood: the possibility of recourse is necessary for trust