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diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
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@@ -293,3 +293,5 @@ I'm worried about the failure mode where bright young minds [lured in](http://be
 >  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."
 
 Scott got a lot of pushback just for including the blog that I showed him in a links post (Times have changed! BBL is locally quasi-mainstream after Ozy engaged)
+
+It's weird that he thinks telling the truth is politically impossible, because the specific truths I'm focused on are things he _already said_, that anyone could just look up. I guess the point is that the egregore doesn't have the logical or reading comprehension for that?

diff --git a/content/drafts/assigned-at-birth-is-a-schelling-point.md b/content/drafts/assigned-at-birth-is-a-schelling-point.md
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@@ -4,4 +4,8 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: game theory, convention
 Status: draft
 
-"It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth." https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem/index.html
+> It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.
+>
+> —Devan Cole, _CNN_, ["South Dakota's governor issues executive orders banning transgender athletes from women's sports"](https://archive.is/l9XoS#selection-1429.1-1429.126)
+
+[CNN later edited to "and for some people, the sex listed on their original birth certificate is a misleading way of describing the body they have."]

diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
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@@ -48,3 +48,8 @@ I read everything I could about the James Watson affair in 2007
 
 The debate never advances; Arthur Jensen on the Phil Donahue show
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtoqK1gsmHI
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+"Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good?" (No!)
+https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2021-brown.pdf
+
+https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2017/3/13/21111588/it-s-official-new-york-s-prospective-teachers-will-no-longer-have-to-pass-controversial-literacy-exa

diff --git a/notes/outline-2021.md b/notes/outline-2021.md
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@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Points to hit—
  * activity group selecting on trait also selects for inessential weirdnesses of group membership; this is a functional reason for "women in tech" that gets destroyed
  * It's not a gender identity; it's a sexual orientation that's surprisingly easy to misinterpret as a gender identity
  * inference by analogy—even if not all trans women are exactly like me, at least a lot of them are going to be similar
+ * idea innoculation on the dumb version of the theory (https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/idea-inoculation-inferential-distance-848836a07a5b ; "Cowpox of Doubt")
 
 
 ### Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data

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@@ -3,24 +3,23 @@
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning: Replies to Eliezer Yudkowsky on Pronoun Conventions and Intellectual Honesty
 
 Minor queue—
 _ I Don't Do Policy
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
-_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
-_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math, why lesbians are women)
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice
+_ Gender Identity as Cognitive Illusion
 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
 _ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) 
 
-_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
-
 More minor or Needs Development—
 
 _ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism  (May)
+_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
 
 Filler links—
 _ Link: You're Kidding, Right?