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@@ -96,10 +96,11 @@ This is _basic shit_. As we say locally, this is _basic Sequences shit_.
 
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+A friend tells me that the ori
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 we did not realize that _whether I should cut my dick off_ would become a politicized issue.
 
 To be fair, it's not obvious that I _shouldn't_ cut my dick off! A lot of people seem to be doing it nowadays, and a lot of them seem to be pretty happy with their decision! But in order to _decide_ whether it's a good idea, I need _accurate information_. I need an _honest_ accounting of the costs and benefits of transition, so that I can cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's a good idea, and not cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's not a good idea.
 
 actively manufacture _fake rationality lessons_ that have been optimized to confuse me into cutting my dick off _independently_ of whether or not we live in a world
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+Actually—maybe I _do_ want to keep this narrowly scoped to the Category War, where I have a very strong case, rather than telling my whole gender/rationalism story!
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 OUTLINE
 * I haven't been doing so well, and I need to tell the story for my own sanity
 * I spent my entire adult life in "rationality", and I actually believed
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 M.L. Morris "Vocational Interests in the United States" d=1.7 on occupational preferences
 
 playing for scraps vs. playing for keeps https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1151902363059392512
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+You can't optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without also optimizing against understanding Occam's razor; you can't optimize for not questioning gender self-identity without also optimizing against understanding "A Human's Guide to Words."