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diff --git a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The coincidental conjunction of a friendship-forming instinct, a novel-secret-se
 
 But the squirrels' _novelty-seeking instincts_ didn't track such distinctions. Secrets from one subspecies thus functioned as a superstimulus to the other subspecies, on account of being so exotic, thus making "special" cross-subspecies friendships particularly desirable and sought-after.
 
-At the same time, subspecies differences in social instincts also made them particularly _frustrating_, as friendships. Particular squirrels had a subspace of their behavior that characterized them as different from other individuals of the same age and sex: _personality_ being the technical term (coined in Dunbar's volume on social systems). The friendship-forming instinct was most stimulated between squirrels with similar or at least compatible personalities, and the two subspecies had different personality distributions that resulted in frequent incompatibilities: for example, west-valley ground squirrels tended to have a more anxious disposition (reflecting the need to be alert to predators on open terrain), whereas east-valley tree squirrels tended to have a more rambunctious nature, which tended to put west-valley ground squirrels on edge.
+At the same time, subspecies differences in social instincts also made them particularly _frustrating_, as friendships. Particular squirrels had a subspace of their behavior that characterized them as different from other individuals of the same age and sex: _personality_ being the technical term (coined in Dunbar's volume on social systems). The friendship-forming instinct was most stimulated between squirrels with similar or at least compatible personalities, and the two subspecies had different personality distributions that resulted in frequent incompatibilities: for example, west-valley ground squirrels tended to have a more anxious disposition (reflecting the need to be alert to predators on open terrain), whereas east-valley tree squirrels tended to have a more rambunctious nature (as was useful for leaf fights, but which tended to put west-valley ground squirrels on edge).
 
 Really, the typical west-valley ground squirrel and the typical east-valley tree squirrel wouldn't have been friends at all, if not for the tantalizing allure of exotic secrets. Thus, special cross-subspecies friendships tended to be successfully formed much less often than they were desired.
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/interlude-xxii.md b/content/drafts/interlude-xxii.md
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@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ _(a stray thought from October 2016)_
 Erotic-target-location-erroneous is the _uniquely_ best sexual orientation for rationalists—I mean _intrinsically_, not just because everyone has it.
 
  * it's abstract
- * it [requires](http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_stronger/) effort to realize
- * without an unusual amount of [epistemic luck](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8bWbNwiSGbGi9jXPS/epistemic-luck) or an _enormous_ amount of map–territory-distinction skill, virtually everyone _wildly misinterprets_ what the underlying psychological phenomenon is ("That's clearly a _mere_ effect of my horrible, crippling gender dysphoria, not a _cause_!" "That's totally normal for cis women, too!" _A-ha-ha-ha-ha!_ You delusional bastards!), thus providing essential training in the important life skill of [noticing that everything you've ever cared about is a lie](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/bayesomasochism/)
+ * it [requires effort](http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_stronger/) to realize
+ * without an unusual amount of [epistemic luck](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8bWbNwiSGbGi9jXPS/epistemic-luck) or an _enormous_ amount of map–territory-distinction skill, virtually everyone _wildly misinterprets_ what the underlying psychological phenomenon is ("That's clearly a mere _effect_ of my horrible, crippling gender dysphoria, not a _cause_—and besides, that's totally normal for cis women, too" _A-ha-ha-ha-ha!_ You delusional bastards!), thus providing essential training in the important life skill of [noticing that everything you've ever cared about is a lie](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/bayesomasochism/)

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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+Enqueue—
+_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
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+Comment: The Dunbar reference on the definition of "personality" is actually real! (_Primate Social Systems_, Ch. 11, "Mechanics of Exploitation")
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+Really?
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+(It's great if I'm actually managing to pull it off! With "Blame Me for Trying", most commenters seemed to take the story at face value, but I wasn't sure how much of that was politeness.)
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+
 Urgent/needed for healing—
 _ I Am Not Great With Secrets (aAL)
 _ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
@@ -10,7 +21,7 @@ _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 
 Minor—
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
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 _ Timelines
 _ Xpression Camera Is the Uniquely Best Piece of Software in the World
 _ ASL Is Not a Language