This is a linkpost for http://unremediatedgender.space/2024/Mar/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles/

It was not the sight of Mitchum that made him sit still in horror. It was the realization that there was no one he could call to expose this thing and stop it—no superior anywhere on the line, from Colorado to Omaha to New York. They were in on it, all of them, they were doing the same, they had given Mitchum the lead and the method. It was Dave Mitchum who now belonged on this railroad and he, Bill Brent, who did not.

—Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Quickly recapping my Whole Dumb Story so far: ever since puberty, I've had this obsessive sexual fantasy about being magically transformed into a woman, which got contextualized by these life-changing Sequences of blog posts by Eliezer Yudkowsky that taught me (amongst many other things) how fundamentally disconnected from reality my fantasy was. [...]

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Outline:

(02:09) The New York Timess Other Shoe Drops (February 2021)

(06:39) The Politics of the Apolitical

(11:19) A Leaked Email Non-Scandal (February 2021)

(19:37) Yudkowsky Doubles Down (February 2021)

(29:49) It Matters Whether Peoples Beliefs About Themselves Are Actually True

(37:20) A Filter Affecting Your Evidence

(52:24) The Stated Reasons Not Being the Real Reasons Is a Form of Community Harm

(01:05:19) People Who Are Trying to Be People Want to Improve Their Self-Models

(01:11:04) Criticism of Public Statements Is About the Public Statements, Not Subjective Intent

(01:13:13) Recap of Yudkowskys History of Public Statements on Transgender Identity

(01:17:29) An Adversarial Game

(01:23:37) The Battle That Matters

The original text contained 21 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
March 2nd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q4yhuwzoy3kNRbv4m/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally

Linkpost URL:
http://unremediatedgender.space/2024/Mar/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles/

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

[Linkpost] “Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles” by Zack_M_Davis

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