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diff --git a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
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@@ -490,6 +490,8 @@ Peer-reviewed scientific papers aren't enough for you? (They could be cherry-pic
 
 [TODO: another clinical perspective: Dr. Will Powers https://www.facebook.com/strohl89/posts/10157396578969598 ]
 
+[TODO: Hirchfield and Ellis]
+
 Or consider Anne Vitale's ["The Gender Variant Phenomenon—A Developmental Review"](http://www.avitale.com/developmentalreview.htm), which makes the _same_ observations as Blanchard-and-friends and arrives at essentially the _same_ two-type taxonomy of MtF, but dressed up in socially-desirable language—
 
 > As sexual maturity advances, Group Three, cloistered gender dysphoric boys, often combine excessive masturbation (one individual reported masturbating up to 5 and even 6 times a day) with an increase in secret cross-dressing activity to release anxiety.
@@ -718,9 +720,7 @@ It _is_ genuinely sad that the author of those Tweets didn't get perceived the w
 
 [TODO: my friends should exist, but this culture is nuts
 
-The utility function is not up for grabs
-
-anecdote about someone complaining that a receptionist compared them to a male celebrity, and being offended, 
+[_The utility function is not up for grabs._](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ddcsdA2c2XpNpE5x/newcomb-s-problem-and-regret-of-rationality)
 
 _It was a complement!_ That poor receptionist was thinking of David Bowie or Eddie Izzard, rather than trying to be hateful
 

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@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154817359255199
 
 https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154839157745199 (quick postmortem notes)
 
+https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154855147045199 (analogue of a duel)
+
 March/April—
 https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154901694685199 (don't talk to psychiatrists or cops)
 https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154930775220199 (optimal gossip)

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@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ looking for a use—
 >
 > —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_
 
-quote that _Blindsight_ passage about an evil god setting males and females against each other
-
 ----
 
 (Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
@@ -367,3 +365,13 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 > When none cares whether it prevail or not.
 >
 > —Coventry Patmore
+
+> I said: "Sophie, I'm sorry things got heated last night. I understand your point of view. A lot of it used to be mine, too. Like I said, I went to U.C. Santa Cruz and Berkeley back in the 1970s, when everything was about socialism. But 40 years of life and reporting in 60 countries has taught me that life is more nuanced than that. These issues aren't that simple. They're more complicated."
+>
+> She replied, sounding a little distressed and a little bitter, I thought: "When did you begin thinking like that?"
+>
+> I said: "Piece by piece, not all at once. Over 40 years. Look, I'd love to talk to you again 40 years from now and see if your thinking has changed at all. But I can't—I'll be dead."
+>
+> She did laugh ruefully at that.
+>
+> —https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-four-what-happened-in-peru-2a641a9b5e83
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@@ -2414,3 +2414,5 @@ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times-article#commen
 > like a screed complaining about Jewish bankers, being read by someone whose only opinion of bankers is that they provide a safe place for him to store his money
 
 https://avoiceformen.com/featured/my-son-doesnt-want-to-be-a-man/
+
+https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695466/

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@@ -85,8 +85,12 @@ my vocabulary is trained on the robot cult really hard; I can't talk to anyone e
 
 nothing left to lose
 
+https://carcinisation.com/2015/06/03/the-memetic-commons/
+
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+
+
 it's that I want culture to innovate in the direction of "achieving godlike understanding of objective reality and optimizing the hell out of it" rather than "playing mind games on each other to make it artificially harder to notice that we don't actually live in a Total Morphological Freedom tech regime."
 
 (write script to extract links, with useful argparse, incl. dropping into a Python shell)