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@@ -196,3 +196,4 @@ https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/tetlock-and-the-taliban
 Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse
 https://archive.is/aVTpr
 
+https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/observations-on-smarter-african-americans/
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@@ -2805,3 +2805,16 @@ The Codex paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374.pdf
 https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/should-public-schools-be-allowed
 
 https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/41402/i-don-t-think-this-pronouns-thing-will-work-the-way-tras-want-it-to
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+I only argue my theories, because those were the theories I needed to _make sense_ of my _own_ life, not to meddle in politics for its own sake. If you think I've become un-updateable, great—can you tell me what _specific_ updates I should have made, especially about myself?
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+My attempted Intellectual Turing Test of your position is, "If you think transitioning might make you happier, then do it; if not, don't; and feel free to experiment. The etiology of _why_ some people are trans (where 'trans' means, 'would be made happier by transitioning') is unknown and there could be multiple contributing factors, but none of that is decision-relevant."
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+(Passing an ITT on the first try is hard, but I hope that was pretty close?)
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+And when people say things like this, I can never understand the "none of that is decision-relevant" part. It seems to be precribing a diagnosis and an intervention while refusing to have any _specific_ model of what the problem _is_. (Where an example of a specific model might be, "Brain sex exists, and gender dysphoria happens when your brain sex doesn't match your body.")
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+But when I try to think about the specifics and talk about the specifics (rather than somehow making a decision about what would make me happy, without any particular model of the world of myself), everyone tells me I'm wrong and un-updateable and have already written my bottom line. 
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+Testosterone as a major component of predicting genius
+https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/testosterone-as-a-major-component-of-predicting-genius/

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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ _ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning 
 
 Minor queue—
+_ Model-Free Happiness
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 _ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
 _ Sticks and Stones