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@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ In that November 2018 Twitter thread, [Yudkowsky wrote](https://archive.is/y5V9i
 
 This seems to suggest that gender pronouns in the English language as currently spoken don't have effective truth conditions. I think this is false _as a matter of cognitive science_. If someone told you, "Hey, you should come meet my friend at the mall, she is really cool and I think you'll like her," and then the friend turned out to look like me (as I am now), _you would be surprised_. (Even if people in Berkeley would socially punish you for _admitting_ that you were surprised.) The "she ... her" pronouns would prompt your brain to _predict_ that the friend would appear to be female, and that prediction would be _falsified_ by someone who looked like me (as I am now). Pretending that the social-norms dispute is about chromosomes was a _bullshit_ [weakmanning](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/) move on the part of Yudkowsky, [who had once written that](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qNZM3EGoE5ZeMdCRt/reversed-stupidity-is-not-intelligence) "[t]o argue against an idea honestly, you should argue against the best arguments of the strongest advocates[;] [a]rguing against weaker advocates proves _nothing_, because even the strongest idea will attract weak advocates." Thanks to the skills I learned from Yudkowsky's _earlier_ writing, I wasn't dumb enough to fall for it, but we can imagine someone otherwise similar to me who was, who might have thereby been misled into making worse life decisions.
 
-[TODO: ↑ less aggressive about E.Y.'s motives, just focus on consequences for people like me who trust him]
+[TODO: ↑ tone]
 
 If this "rationality" stuff is useful for _anything at all_, you would _expect_ it to be useful for _practical life decisions_ like _whether or not I should cut my dick off_. 
 
@@ -666,7 +666,6 @@ I think what actually happens is that people like Yudkowsky and Alexander rise t
 
 It makes sense for public figures to not want to commit political suicide!
 
-
 [TODO: risk factor of people getting drawn in to a subculture that claims to be about reasoning, but is actualy very heavily optimized for cutting boys dicks off.
 We already get a lot of shit for being right-wing; People use trans as political cover;
 
@@ -675,11 +674,10 @@ https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1275524303430262790
 > The two demographics most over-represented in the SlateStarCodex readership according to the surveys are transgender people and Ph.D. holders.
 
 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5310
-> Another thing that would’ve complicated the picture: the rationalist community’s legendary openness to alternative gender identities and sexualities, before
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+> Another thing that would've complicated the picture: the rationalist community’s legendary openness to alternative gender identities and sexualities
 
+]
 
 Someone asked me: "If we randomized half the people at [OpenAI](https://openai.com/) to use trans pronouns one way, and the other half to use it the other way, do you think they would end up with significantly different productivity?"
 
@@ -703,15 +701,15 @@ The thing I'm objecting to is this _culture of narcissistic Orwellian mind games
 
 [TODO: my friends should exist, but this culture is nuts
 
-https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1092472430465929216
-> damn one extremely bad way to start my day is having the receptionist at slack say I look like a male celebrity
-> I'm so mad. wow. like. I look like this right now, how could anyone ever think that was an okay thing to say???
+anecdote about someone complaining that a receptionist compared them to a male celebrity
+
+_It was a complement!_ (That poor receptionist was thinking of David Bowie or Eddie Izzard, rather than trying to be hateful)
 
-It was a complement! I don't _want_ people to have to doublethink around their perceptions of me, pretend not to notice
+I don't _want_ people to have to doublethink around their perceptions of me, pretend not to notice
  
-Ziz's complaint that I'm siding with the oppressors in conceptual warfare
+the complaint that I'm siding with the oppressors in conceptual warfare
 the political incentives propagate recursively, a phase transition: in a culture it's normal for AGP males to transition, any sub-culture where they don't is subject to attack as transphobic
-I want to stay aligned with _actual women_, many of whom have an interest in excluding me and Ziz
+I want to stay aligned with _actual women_, many of whom have an interest in excluding me
 ]
 
 [I have seen the destiny of my neurotype, and am putting forth a convulsive effort to wrench it off its path. My weapon is clear writing.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking)

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@@ -1911,6 +1911,8 @@ Another new cite: https://applieddivinitystudies.com/2020/09/05/rationality-winn
 
 Another new cite: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/kdxbyd/this_blog_is_incredible/gg04f8c/ "My personal favorites among these are [ ], [... Not Man for the Categories], 10, and 2 in that order."
 
+Another new cite: https://twitter.com/rbaron321/status/1361841879445364739
+
 31 December
 "SSC also helped me understand trans issues" https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/kng0q4/mixed_feelings_on_scott_alexander/
 
@@ -2400,3 +2402,5 @@ AGP testimony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDE9H8i2Vw0
 
 "A Typology of Gender Detransition and Its Implications for Healthcare Providers"
 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2020.1869126
+
+https://medium.com/@mariacatt42/how-to-do-your-own-differential-diagnosis-and-why-its-total-bullshit-that-you-would-have-to-461077985659

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@@ -444,4 +444,10 @@ It _follows logically_ that, in particular, if _N_ := "woman", you can't define
 
 > Michael fucking Vassar. Shit!
 
-I'm worried about the failure mode where bright young minds [lured in](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/construction-beacons/) by the beautiful propaganda about _systematically correct reasoning_, are instead recruited into what is, effectively, the Eliezer-Yudkowsky-and-Scott-Alexander fan club.
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+I'm worried about the failure mode where bright young minds [lured in](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/construction-beacons/) by the beautiful propaganda about _systematically correct reasoning_, are instead recruited into what is, effectively, the Eliezer-Yudkowsky-and-Scott-Alexander fan club.
+
+>  I'm not trying to get Eliezer or "the community" to take a public stance on gender politics; I'm trying to get us to take a stance in favor of the kind of epistemology that we were doing in 2008. It turns out that epistemology has implications for gender politics which are unsafe, but that's more inferential steps, and ... I guess I just don't expect the sort of people who would punish good epistemology to follow the inferential steps? Maybe I'm living in the should-universe a bit here, but I don't think it "should" be hard for Eliezer to publicly say, "Yep, categories aren't arbitrary because you need them to carve reality at the joints in order to make probabilistic inferences, just like I said in 2008; this is obvious."
+
+https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1092472430465929216
+> damn one extremely bad way to start my day is having the receptionist at slack say I look like a male celebrity
+> I'm so mad. wow. like. I look like this right now, how could anyone ever think that was an okay thing to say???