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diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-irreversible-damage.md b/content/drafts/book-review-irreversible-damage.md
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@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ Well, maybe.
 Curtis Yarvin, a computer programmer perhaps most famous as the principal author of the Urbit decentralized server platform
 
 https://graymirror.substack.com/p/2b-negative-causes-are-frivolous
+https://graymirror.substack.com/p/persuasion-and-the-mensheviks

diff --git a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
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@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ Status: draft
 
 So, as I sometimes allude to, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this insular intellectual subculture that was founded in the late 'aughts to promulgate an ideal of _systematically correct reasoning_—general methods of thought that result in true beliefs and successful plans—and, incidentally, to use these methods of systematically correct reasoning to prevent superintelligent machines from [destroying all value in the universe](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNnHHmm8EzePmKzPk/value-is-fragile). Lately I've been calling it my "robot cult" (a phrase [due to Dale Carrico](https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2011/08/ten-reasons-to-take-seriously.html))—the pejorative is partially ironically affectionate, and partially an expression of bitter contempt and white-hot rage acquired from that time almost everyone I [used to trust](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science) insisted on selectively playing dumb about our _own_ philosophy of language in a way that [was optimized for](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sXHQ9R5tahiaXEZhR/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie) tricking me into cutting my dick off (independently of the empirical facts that [determine whether or not](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9f5EXt8KNNxTAihtZ/a-rational-argument) cutting my dick off is actually a good idea).
 
-But that's a _long story_—for another time, perhaps. (Working title: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End; Or, [A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning](https://archive.is/3epp2); Or, We Had [an Entire Sequence About This](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FaJaCgqBKphrDzDSj/37-ways-that-words-can-be-wrong), You Lying Motherfuckers.")
-
-For _now_, I want to explain how my robot cult's foundational texts had an enormous influence on my self-concept in relation to sex and gender.
+But that's a _long story_—for another time, perhaps. For _now_, I want to explain how my robot cult's foundational texts had an enormous influence on my self-concept in relation to sex and gender.
 
 It all started in summer 2007 when I came across _Overcoming Bias_, a blog on the theme of how to achieve more accurate beliefs. (I don't remember exactly how I was referred, but I think it was likely to have been [a link from Megan McArdle](https://web.archive.org/web/20071129181942/http://www.janegalt.net/archives/009783.html), then writing as "Jane Galt" at _Asymmetrical Information_.)
 

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@@ -1990,3 +1990,6 @@ https://sigmaleph.dreamwidth.org/54093.html
 thispersondoesnotexist.com should offer age/race/sex radio buttons rather than just "Another"
 but I guess if the model was just trained on a bunch of unlabeled face photos, it's not going to be obvious what to change to generate "only females"
 the model must have learned the features somehow in order to produce such realistic results
+
+https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1165832120784146432
+the sad, continuous pain of seeing both sides, yet being on this one