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@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ It was also around this time that our posse picked up a new member, who would pr
 
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-On 5 January, I met with Michael and his associate Aurora Quinn-Elmore in San Francisco to attempt mediated discourse with [Ziz](https://sinceriously.fyi/) and [Gwen](https://everythingtosaveit.how/), who were considering suing CfAR for discriminating against trans women. Michael hoped to dissuade them from a lawsuit—not because Michael approved of CfAR's behavior, but because involving lawyers makes everything worse.
+On 5 January, I met with Michael and his associate Aurora Quinn-Elmore in San Francisco to attempt mediated discourse with [Ziz](https://sinceriously.fyi/) and [Gwen](https://everythingtosaveit.how/), who were considering suing CfAR for discriminating against trans women. Michael hoped to dissuade them from a lawsuit—not because Michael approved of CfAR's behavior, but because lawyers make everything worse.
 
 Ziz recounted [her](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/) story [of Anna's discrimination](https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative), how she engaged in [conceptual warfare](https://sinceriously.fyi/intersex-brains-and-conceptual-warfare/) to falsely portray Ziz as a predatory male. I was unimpressed: in my worldview, I didn't think Ziz had the right to say "I'm not a man," and expect people to just believe that. ([I remember that](https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1081952880649596928) at one point, Ziz answered a question with, "Because I don't run off masochistic self-doubt like you." I replied, "That's fair.") But I did respect how Ziz actually believed in an intersex brain theory: in Ziz and Gwen's worldview, people's genders were a _fact_ of the matter, not just a manipulation of consensus categories to make people happy.
 

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@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ _ lead-in to Sept. 2021 Twitter altercation [pt. 5]
 _ regrets, wasted time, conclusion [pt. 5]
 - "Agreeing with Stalin" recap intro [pt. 5]
 
+
 not even blocked—
 _ Re: on legitimacy and the entrepreneur; or, continuing the attempt to spread my sociopathic awakening onto Scott [pt. 2 somewhere]
 _ running away to Burlingame; Hamilton tickets
@@ -50,12 +51,18 @@ New (bad) time estimate:
 = 29.5 workdays × 7 sidereal days / 6 workdays = 34.4 sidereal days
 = gapless draft on 17 February??
 
+Less delusionally optimistic time estimate—
+32 TODO block × 1/workday = 32 days
+7 bigger blocks × workday/4 = 28 days
+= 60 workdays × 7 sidereal days / 5 workdays = 84 sidereal days
+= gapless draft on 18 April???
 
 
 it was actually "wander onto the AGI mailing list wanting to build a really big semantic net" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9HGR5qatMGoz4GhKj/above-average-ai-scientists)
 
 
 With internet available—
+_ Ione "good things don't cancel out bad things"
 _ escort photo comment
 _ love to know some positive integer number of plans
 _ "not hard to find": link to more /r/itsafetish-like anecdotes