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diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
index 0f8935b..2f7848f 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/memoir-sections.md
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@@ -646,6 +646,7 @@ And if _you_ don't think you can politically afford to acknowledge your faithful
 > The Other's theory of themselves usually does not make them look terrible.  And you will not have much luck just yelling at them about how they must *really* be doing terrible_thing instead.  That's woke filter bubble thinking.  I stopped talking to Michael when he went that way.
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1435619618052214787
 
+The fact that I flipped out at Nate's dolphin thing was a misplay on my part, but it generated more Twitter discussion (including Eliezer's "never told anyone to go trans" remarks and Vorobey's comments) makes it a "win" for the cause even if I was out of line? My freaking out was "rational". 
 
 But I think Eliezer and I _agree_ on what he's doing; he just doesn't see it's bad
 
@@ -653,6 +654,8 @@ Speaking of narcissism and perspective-taking, "deception" isn't about whether y
 
 I really appreciated Anatoly Vorobey's comments:
 
+https://twitter.com/avorobey/status/1404769388969054210
+
 > to provide context how it may (justifiably?) seem like over the last 7-8 years the rat. community largely fell *hard* for a particular gender philosophy
 
 > ... fell for it in ways that seemed so spectacularly uncritical, compared to other beliefs carefully examined and dissected, and more so, even justified with a veneer of "rationality" (as in Scott's Categories post) that beautifully coincided with the tumblr dogma of the time...

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@@ -446,4 +446,23 @@
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diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index 07bd15b..71d665a 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -3297,14 +3297,19 @@ In the 1990 U.S. Census, _Davis_ was the 6th most common surname at 0.48%, and _
 the younger son also claiming broke suspension of disbelief
 https://lgbtcouragecoalition.substack.com/p/true-believer
 
-2022 Moser/Bailey/Serano debate (I want PDFs of these)
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02418-0
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02414-4
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02482-6
-
 I agree that people who have prior reasons to be skeptical of survey evidence should be upfront about those reasons, rather than opportunistically objecting to particular questions when that's not their [true rejection](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TGux5Fhcd7GmTfNGC/is-that-your-true-rejection).
 
 https://unherd.com/thepost/calls-for-violence-in-the-trans-debate-only-come-from-one-side/
 
 Blanchard: "What I think is that people are born with predispositions or vulnerabilities to a kind of erotic miss-learning" quoted in https://since2010.substack.com/p/is-autogynephilia-innate
 
+https://www.natesilver.net/p/twitter-elon-and-the-indigo-blob
+
+https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gender-criticism-versus-gender-abolition-on-three-recent-books-about-gender/
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/15hhliu/the_chen_2023_paper_raises_serious_concerns_about/
+
+Everybody knows! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/06/third-of-britons-dont-know-trans-women-born-male/
+
+Alex Byrne podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/956725/13282940-gender-pronouns-and-linguistic-negotiation
+

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 1c02ccb..6511235 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -1,17 +1,4 @@
-May—
-
-UUT—
-_ I'm Dropping the Pseudonym From This Blog
-
-memoir pt. 1–3—
-_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer (March 2016–December 2017)
-_ People, Evolved Social-Control Mechanisms, and Rocks (January 2017–April 2017)
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning (November 2018–April 2019)
-
------
-
 _ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
-_ Book Review: Imogen Binnie's Nevada
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 
 _ If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them (April 2019–January 2021)
@@ -20,11 +7,11 @@ _ Zevi's Choice (April 2021–April 2022)
 _ Standing Under the Same Sky (December 2022)
 _ The Last Indictment (January 2023–July 2023)
 
-Minor camera-ready—
-_ Janet Mock on Late Transitioners
-_ Interlude XXII
 
 Minor—
+_ subspace
+_ newer Haskell surveys?
+_ Book Review: Imogen Binnie's Nevada
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality (short version)
 _ Beyond the Binary
 _ Happy Meal

diff --git a/notes/wordcounts.txt b/notes/wordcounts.txt
index 3afb96b..b69fa45 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/wordcounts.txt
+++ b/notes/wordcounts.txt
@@ -53,10 +53,18 @@ $ wc content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossd
   2447  73940 501961 total
 
 words per year—
-2022: 31900 (total); 29600 (UUT),  2300 (LW)
-2021: 43300 (total); 21600 (UUT), 21700 (LW)
-2020: 42400 (total); 23900 (UUT), 18500 (LW)
-2019: 30200 (total); 10500 (UUT), 19700 (LW)
-2018:                18700 (UUT)
-2017:                20900 (UUT)
-2016:                 5900 (UUT)
+2022: 31900 (total); 29600 (UUT),  2300 (LW),   100 (aAL)
+2021: 43300 (total); 21600 (UUT), 21700 (LW),   400 (aAL)
+2020: 42400 (total); 23900 (UUT), 18500 (LW),  1800 (aAL)
+2019: 30200 (total); 10500 (UUT), 19700 (LW),  2800 (aAL)
+2018: 19700 (total); 18700 (UUT),              1000 (aAL)
+2017: 27300 (total); 20900 (UUT),              6400 (aAL)
+2016: 23100 (total);  5900 (UUT),             17200 (aAL)
+2015: 12100 (total);                          12100 (aAL)
+2014:  6400 (total);                           6400 (aAL)
+2013: 23500 (total);                          23500 (aAL)
+2012: 20300 (total);                          20300 (aAL)
+2011:  1800 (total);                           1800 (aAL)
+
+>>> 31900 + 43300 + 42400 + 30200 + 19700 + 27300 + 23100 + 12100 +  6400 + 23500 + 20300 +  1800
+282000