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diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
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--- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
+++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ https://quillette.com/2021/07/29/charles-murrays-facing-reality-a-review/
 "Reading Race: AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity In Medical Images"
 https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10356
 https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/ai-has-the-worst-superpower-medical-racism/
+https://www.wired.com/story/these-algorithms-look-x-rays-detect-your-race/
 
 https://www.unz.com/isteve/military-discovers-that-stripping-photos-from-promotion-evaluations-hurts-blacks/
 
@@ -185,3 +186,5 @@ https://www.unz.com/isteve/military-discovers-that-stripping-photos-from-promoti
 > mean heritable propensity for violence thus shifted 0.08 SD leftward with each passing generation
 > the most violent 1 to 2% should form a right-hand “tail” that begins 2.33–2.05
 SD to the right of the mean propensity for homicide. If we eliminate this right-hand tail and leave only the other 98-99% to survive and reproduce, we have a selection differential of 0.027 to 0.049 SD per generation.
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diff --git a/content/drafts/happy-meal.md b/content/drafts/happy-meal.md
index 2b429a7..f4cacca 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/happy-meal.md
+++ b/content/drafts/happy-meal.md
@@ -8,11 +8,16 @@ Status: draft
 
 "Can we do Italian? I love Italian food."
 
-"So, say, lasagna?"
+"So, say, lasagna from Vinnie's?"
 
 "Sure!"
 
-"Great. But let's make sure to say the specific dish name, _lasagna_; don't say 'Italian food'."
+"Great. But make sure to say the specific dish name, _lasagna_; don't say 'Italian food'."
 
 "Why?"
 
+"Not all Italian people like lasagna, and not all lasagna-lovers are Italian. There's no reason to bolster stereotypes when you can just say the specific dish name."
+
+"... you're serious."
+
+"I'm not saying you did anything _wrong_ by saying 'Italian food'; I understand that there are cultural and historical reasons that people tend to habitually associate foods with countries. You didn't think it through, and that's OK. However, now that I've done the interpretive labor of pointing out that it's unnecessary, you have no good reasons to _persist_ in saying 'Italian food' in this context, given the externality it imposes."

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index a0aeaa4..e42633f 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-Active—
+Minor—
+_ Timelines
+_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
+_ I Don't Do Policy
 _ Happy Meal
-_ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 _ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
 
+
 2021 significant posts—
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
 _ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
 Minor queue—
-_ Timelines
-_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
-_ I Don't Do Policy
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 _ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
 _ Sticks and Stones
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ _ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
 
 
 More minor or Needs Development—
-
 _ Episode Review: Star Trek: Voyager S7EX "Body and Soul"
 _ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
 _ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@ _ Link: Quillette on Sons Becoming Daughters
 _ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
 
 LW—
+_ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
 _ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars
 _ Feature Selection
 _ Connotation as Optimization