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I think doing some quick outlining from memory to meet my daily
wordcount goal is OK. (The outlining is genuinely somewhat useful, and
it's not even a bad incentive, because the words "already there" from
the outline are counting "against" future days' wordcount goals.)

diff --git a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md
index 9a6e520..6e24fc6 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md
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@@ -277,7 +277,16 @@ I said that for me and my selfish perspective, the main outcome was finally shat
 
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-[TODO: Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip; make sure to include the part about Michael threatening to sue]
+[TODO: Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip
+  * Michael's "position" in the community, already not what it once was, was getting debased even further
+  * Berkeley REACH investigation; I asked what the charges were; they say it's not a court; I say _I_ don't feel safe in a place that bans Michael for no good reason
+  * Kelsey says in Discord that Michael is trying to get re-included
+  * I email her with quotes trying to argue that that's not his game
+  * She doesn't find the quotes convincing, because she thinks Vassar is a liar
+  * I call Ben to the stand, then Sarah ("You're a great prosecutor", I say in the channel)
+  * Kelsey in meatspace tells me that Vassar has a benefactor that she can't name; I'm retarded enough to not infer that it's him and she was obfuscating for compliance
+  ...
+]
 
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diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
index 86c7086..88864bb 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/memoir-sections.md
+++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 marked TODO
 
-_ Eliezerfic fight conclusion
+- Eliezerfic fight conclusion
 _ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip
 
 _ psych ward
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ _ "Lenore" psychiatric disaster
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 With internet available—
+_ Keltham/Peranza exam answer should link specific tags
 _ Slate Star Codex on patient's rights being adversarial system
 _ was the "People are better at taking care of each other than institutions!" thing in the morning of Feb 17?? KP visit log might confirm?
 _ Kirutsugu spelling
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ _ Anna's claim that Scott was a target specifically because he was good, my coun
 _ Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy
 
 far editing tier—
+_ footnote to explain that when I'm summarizing a long Discord conversation to taste, I might move things around into "logical" time rather than "real time"; e.g. Yudkowsky's "powerfully relevant" and "but Superman" comments were actually one right after the other; and, e.g., I'm filling in more details that didn't make it into the chat, like innate kung fu; and that the fact that I can "enhance" the summaries of my part, but the people I'm talking to don't have the same privilege, should be taken into account—actually, this covers a lot of the memoir; maybe I should mention this earlier (and again in a footnote??)
 _ Ruby fight: "forces of blandness want me gone ... stand my ground" remark
 _ "Even our pollution is beneficial" [pt. 6]
 _ Scott Aaronson on the blockchain of science [pt. 6]
@@ -128,7 +130,6 @@ _ squeeze "Darkness and Light" into the Eliezerfic account
 _ clarify Sarah dropping out of the coordination group
 _ somewhere in dath ilan discussion: putting a wrapper on graphic porn is fine, de-listing Wikipedia articles is not
 _ maybe current-year LW would be better if more marginal cases _had_ bounced off because of e.g. sexism
-_ footnote to explain that when I'm summarizing a long Discord conversation to taste, I might move things around into "logical" time rather than "real time"; e.g. Yudkowsky's "powerfully relevant" and "but Superman" comments were actually one right after the other; and, e.g., I'm filling in more details that didn't make it into the chat, like innate kung fu
 _ re "EY is a fraud": it's a _conditional_ that he can modus tollens if he wants
 _ NRx point about HBD being more than IQ, ties in with how I think the focus on IQ is distasteful, but I have political incentives to bring it up
 _ "arguing for a duty to self-censorship"—contrast to my "closing thoughts" email
@@ -2459,3 +2460,7 @@ scared that my boss was coming to kill me
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1642908341327499264
 [re identifying as a "decision theorist"]
 > it's a place where it would be easiest to defend, to my own satisfaction, and without a sense that I was even slightly misleading anyone, that I made a big damn contribution on at least the PhD level.
+
+Vanessa's comment about "I'm a woman in EA, and I don't get harrassed—maybe it's because I'm unattractive" deserves a "it's because you're not _female_" retort—not naming her and not linking the comment, but it does need to be said.
+
+"I could protest that the prompt didn't do enough to steer me away"—that's evidence _for_ the ITT (in contrast to my planned argument that the ITT is niche). (But the fact that I can recognize this in my own voice is evidence for my original thesis??