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@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ Because one of the things I noticed while trying to make sense of why my entire
 
 It works surprisingly well. I fear my love of Truth is not so great that if I didn't have Something to Protect, I would have happily participated in the cover-up.
 
+[TODO: explain the strategy whereby people are using being pro-trans as their progressive "dump stat"—maybe this (and maybe some of the above) should slot in after the discussion of Yudkowsky's post on our haters being Bad?]
+
+On 17 February 2021, Topher Brennan [claimed on Twitter that](https://web.archive.org/web/20210217195335/https://twitter.com/tophertbrennan/status/1362108632070905857) Scott Alexander "isn't being honest about his history with the far-right", and published [an email he had received from Scott in 2014](https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/backstabber-brennan-knifes-scott-alexander-with-2014-email/), on what Scott thought some neoreactionaries were getting importantly right.
+
+I think to people who have actually read _and understood_ Scott's work, there is nothing at all surprising or scandalous about the contents of this email.
+
 [...]
 
 ... except that Yudkowsky reopened the conversation in February 2021, with [a new Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228) explaining the origins of his intuitions about pronoun conventions and concluding that, "the simplest and best protocol is, '"He" refers to the set of people who have asked us to use "he", with a default for those-who-haven't-asked that goes by gamete size' and to say that this just _is_ the normative definition. Because it is _logically rude_, not just socially rude, to try to bake any other more complicated and controversial definition _into the very language protocol we are using to communicate_."

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@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ _ explain Rob
 _ edit the child transition section in a way that Kay Brown would be OK with, have a few sentences about Clever Hans before the wrap-up
 _ ask Jessica where Scott clarified his position on antipsychotics?
 _ I should respond to Ziz's charges that my criticism of concept-policing was a form of concept-policing
+_ why doesn't he apply his anti-optimism to his gender statements?!
 
 
 terms to explain on first mention—
@@ -1621,4 +1622,15 @@ I think I'm trying to humiliate the people who are pretending not to understand
 
 > No, because it makes you look clueless rather than them look clueless.
 
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+compare EY and SBF
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+Scott Aaronson on the Times's hit piece of Scott Alexander—
+https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5310
+> The trouble with the NYT piece is not that it makes any false statements, but just that it constantly _insinuates_ nefarious beliefs and motives, via strategic word choices and omission of relevant facts that change the emotional coloration of the facts that it _does_ present.
+
+https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-journalist-rationalist-showdown
+
+https://twitter.com/jstn/status/1591088015941963776
+> 2023 is going to be the most 2005 it's been in years

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@@ -3215,3 +3215,6 @@ https://sugarandslugs.wordpress.com/
 https://firsttoilthenthegrave.substack.com/p/medium-sized-breasts-and-gaussian
 
 https://janhove.github.io/design/2015/03/16/standardised-es-revisited
+
+Is "homoncular flexibility" also responsible for AGP??
+https://stanfordvr.com/mm/2016/11/won-etsbs-homuncular-flexibility.pdf