poke

I had to at least poke the ms. for a full timer block, so that I'm
moving forwards (I didn't even get a full timer block last night), and
so that I'm allowed to have ice-cream.

diff --git a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md
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@@ -12,19 +12,25 @@ Status: draft
 [TODO: Sasha disaster, breakup with Vassar group, this was really bad for me]
 
 [TODO: NYT affair and Brennan link, prelude to pronouns post
- * Cade Metz's story came out, and it was pretty bad in the ways you'd expect
+ * On 13 February 2021, [the _New York Times_ article on _Slate Star Codex_](https://archive.ph/zW6oX) came out.
  * notably, the Charles Murray guilt-by-association was a reach on the part of the reporter
- * What's particularly weird is that if you actually read Scott's work (e.g. "High School Science Project", he's obviously sympathetic to genetic explanations; it's _possible_ for Jews to be smart for genetic reasons but the black/white gap to be fake and environmental
+ * a "[Gettier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem) attack"—right for the wrong reasons
+ * Anyone who's _actually read_ Scott's work, knows that Scott thinks hereditarianism is plausible.
+ * Charles Murray is _also_ agnostic about causality.
+ * (maybe footnote) ["The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/) or the ["Biodeterminist's Guide to Parenting"](https://expost.padm.us/biodet), or the mention of _Human Varieties_ in ["Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced?"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-popular-and-silenced/)
+ * (It's certainly _possible_ for the Ashkenazi IQ advantage to be real and genetic, and black–white gap to be fake and environmental.)
  * Scott's denial doesn't go into this, of course
  * Brennan email leak
  * my comment on bullies and heresy / my Twitter comment on lying
+ * If you actually read the email, it doesn't look like Brennan made any promises—Scott confessed, and threatened. I don't think Scott did anything wrong—_because_ I don't think belief in hereditarianism is wrong. If you imagine someone confessing to a real crime and then threatening "Don't tell anyone this", we would regard the leaker as a valiant whistleblower, not a privacy breaker
  * Yudkowsky reopens the conversation?! Why?!
 
+https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228
 
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1362514650089156608
 > Hypothesis:  People to whom self-awareness and introspection come naturally, put way too much moral exculpatory weight on "But what if they don't know they're lying?"  They don't know a lot of their internals!  And don't want to know!  That's just how they roll.
 
-Oh, this was also on 18 February 2021 (same day as my comment about SneerClub); maybe the conjunction of the two made me more salient
+Oh, this was also on 18 February 2021 4:13 p.m. (same day as my comment about SneerClub); maybe the conjunction of the two made me more salient
 https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1362555980232282113
 > Oh, maybe it's relevant to note that those posts were specifically part of my 21-month rage–grief campaign of being furious at Eliezer all day every day for lying-by-implicature about the philosophy of language? But, I don't want to seem petty by pointing that out! I'm over it!
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/multi-product-review-various-agp-erotic-aids.md b/content/drafts/multi-product-review-various-agp-erotic-aids.md
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@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ Getting the mask on and off was no problem at all.
 
 stock phrase "Mark had always been fascinated by women. He loved the way they looked, the way they smelled, the way they sounded"
 
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t9svvNPNmFf5Qa3TA/mysteries-of-mode-collapse-due-to-rlhf
+
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