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@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
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 > —Zora Neale Hurston
 
-> PEARL: Well it wasn't really a "test", per se. Not in the traditional sense. We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions.
-> STEVEN: That's exactly what a test is!
+> STEVEN: Test? What do you mean, test?
+> PEARL: Eugh, well, it wasn't really a "test", per se. Not in the traditional sense. We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions.
+> STEVEN: That's _exactly_ what a test is!
 >
 > —_Steven Universe_, "The Test"

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@@ -2032,3 +2032,10 @@ https://reclaimthenet.org/threats-of-violence-censorship-for-womens-rights-group
 https://archive.vn/hQFh1
 
 pee fantasy: https://ericatgswapcaps.blogspot.com/2020/09/swap-clinic-favorite-thing.html
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/f0dfmt/has_anyone_ever_wrestled_with_guys_and_be/
+
+> Make a mistake, suffer a disaster, learn a lesson. Make two mistakes, suffer a disaster, learn half a lesson.
+https://twitter.com/spaceandgames/status/210229439395659776
+
+Oftentimes you genuinely happen to run out of time for a particular conversation, and that's fine: if your stopping algorithm is based on how busy you are that day and the expected information value of the remaining conversation, then we should expect to get accurate shared maps _eventually_, even if some topics get "unlucky" that you were busy that day. If your stopping algorithm is based on political convenience (you leave the conversation _because_ the other party made a good point that you're not allowed to admit in Berkeley), then we _don't_ converge to accurate shared maps!

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 Main path (important posts)—
 
-_ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + S. Finley + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + paid-editor)
-
-
 Milestone—
-_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
+_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems (possibly skippable? I just want this to be over)
 _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
-
-Ancillary documents and marketing channels for milestone—
 _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
+_ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + Rich + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + paid-editor)
+
+Marketing channels—
 _ FUEY
 _ comment to V."C."S. on "Maybe Lying Can't Exist?!"
-_ comment to V.K.
+_ comment on W.D. on "Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist"
+_ comment to V.K. on May thread
 _ epilogue email to S.A.
+_ explain "algorthimic" playing dumb to S.A.
 _ comment to G.J.M.??
 _ message to P."O."L.
 _ Twitter
+_ Facebook tag R.B.
 _ Reddit submissions: /r/philosophy and /r/TheMotte 
+_ S. Finley share
 
 
 _ Irreversible Damage review
@@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
 
 Angelic Irony
 Memetics vs. Discourse
-Being Willing to Change Your Mind Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
+Cromwell's Rule Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
 Honesty Is Activism
 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
 Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
@@ -119,6 +121,8 @@ _ Product Review: FaceApp
 
 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up. Deterrent: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/case-social-media-mobs/612202/  Another example: https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240
 
+Psychiatrist's response to me is kind of case-in-point https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4valma/
+
 you regress to your group's mean—but that depends on how you draw the category boundaries around group membership! This could be a good math post!! https://humanvarieties.org/2017/07/01/measurement-error-regression-to-the-mean-and-group-differences/
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."

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 Who would have thought getting @ESYudkowsky's robot cult to stop trying to trick me into cutting my dick off (independently of the empirical facts determining whether or not I should cut my dick off) would involve so much math?? OK, I guess the math part isn't surprising, but—
 
+KQED was asked: "When will life be better in California?"
+KQED answered: "In California, life already has been better."
+
 In the NRx production of Hairspray, "You Can't Stop the Beat" is re-keyed to a chilling C minor
 
 On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life