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diff --git a/content/drafts/student-dysphoria-and-a-previous-lifes-war.md b/content/drafts/student-dysphoria-and-a-previous-lifes-war.md
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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ And not just reading, either. I remembered enjoying the linear algebra class I t
 
 This was fine, for a while. I learned from my books, and—there was a _dignity_ to working at the supermarket. It was boring, to be sure, but at least I had some function other than simply to obey a designated authority. You can _tell_ when a customer's latte is too foamy, or the coinmag on checkstand 1 needs to be swapped out, on its own terms, and not because the teacher said so.
 
-But making $9.40 an hour at the supermarket indefinitely (and paying a nominal rent to live with my mom) didn't seem like an acceptable destiny for someone of my social class. It was assumed that at some point, I would have to figure out how to get a grown-up job (although probably my colleagues who had been at the supermarket for 30 years wouldn't approve of me calling it that).
+But making $9.40 an hour at the supermarket indefinitely (and paying a nominal rent to live with my mom) didn't seem like an acceptable destiny for someone of my social class. It was assumed that at some point, I would have to figure out how to get a grown-up job (although my colleagues who had been at the supermarket for 30 years probably wouldn't approve of me calling it that).
 
 [TODO—
 A+ cert, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heald_College, diff eqs., ending up in community college/SFSU]

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
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@@ -675,4 +675,6 @@ https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5310
 
 contrast to masochism being an infohazard in dath ilan: in real life, when your sexuality is considered an infrohazard, you don't take it lying down
 
-postyud
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+postyud
+
+Scott has the power to set narratives, as evidenced by his attack on Michael hijacking Jessica's thread

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@@ -1890,8 +1890,14 @@ Still citing it (December 21 podcast): https://www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/202
 
 Still citing it (2 February 22): https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-do-i-suck/comment/4838964
 
+Still citing it (22 March 22): https://twitter.com/postpostpostr/status/1506480317351272450
+
 The correctness of this post has been disputed at length: [object-level reply](http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/), [meta-level reply (part 1)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries), [meta-level reply (part 2)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception), [supplementary material on dolphins/whales](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vhp2sW6iBhNJwqcwP/blood-is-thicker-than-water)
 
+Object-level reply: http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/
+Meta-level reply (pt. 1): https://lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries
+Meta-level reply (pt. 2): https://lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception
+Supplementary material on dolphins/whales: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vhp2sW6iBhNJwqcwP/blood-is-thicker-than-water
 
 darwin2500 "Women's leagues are for women, trans women are women. That's all the justification needed" https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hym5xb/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_27_2020/fzvfres/
 
@@ -3044,3 +3050,15 @@ https://www.newsweek.com/why-im-proud-support-trans-athletes-like-lia-thomas-opi
 
 value instability in organizations on the timescale of a decade: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-aclu-prior-to-covid-denounced
 
+Wil-"Lia"-m Thomas got her girl name using the same methodology as me (Za-"Carrie" Davis), at the suggestion of Mom (https://www.si.com/college/2022/03/03/lia-thomas-penn-swimmer-transgender-woman-daily-cover) like mine was suggested by Alicorn
+
+vindication
+> "Dath ilani kids get told to not get fascinated with the fact that, in principle, 'bounded-agents' with finite memories and finite thinking speeds, have any considerations about mapping that depend on what they want.  It doesn't mean that you get to draw in whatever you like on your map, because it's what you want.  It doesn't make reality be what you want."
+https://www.glowfic.com/posts/5785?page=4
+
+explicit AGP with surgery
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhawkcuDl_o
+
+https://www.vice.com/en/article/9aeevy/i-cross-dress-do-you-still-love-me-the-secret-lives-of-sissies
+
+https://4w.pub/no-men-here/

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 2022 significant posts—
+
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
 
 Minor—
-
+_ The Two-Type Taxonomy Is a Useful Approximation for a More Detailed Causal Model
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 _ Happy Meal
 _ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"
 _ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
-_ https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1504468998112522244
+
 
 _ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace
 _ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes