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diff --git a/content/entry/challenges-driving-with-autism.md b/content/entry/challenges-driving-with-autism.md
index 256c54c..d080608 100644
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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ When I was first learning how to drive, the person I had as an instructor did no
At that point, I realized this person was either a moron or they just hated autistic people and were being intentionally dense. Either way, driving with them was clearly unsafe. So I told them that they would have to drive it back. They refused. So I got out of the car and waited on them to take the driver's seat. My then instructor, rather than move the car, became irate and started shouting at me saying that I couldn't leave the car in the street like that. It was a nightmare.
-Luckily I found someone else to teach me to drive who who didn't shout. My driving still wasn't very good, but it got better with their help and by the end of it I was good enough to drive on my own.
+Luckily I found someone else to teach me to drive who didn't shout. My driving still wasn't very good, but it got better with their help and by the end of it I was good enough to drive on my own.
Sometimes there are sensory challenges outside the car like police sirens, firetrucks, the bright sun, and people driving towards me with their brights on. That aggravates my senses, but it's manageable because I know it's temporary. I will eventually get away from it. Loud passengers are closer in proximity and I can't get away from them. That's the difference.
diff --git a/content/entry/coming-out-as-autistic.md b/content/entry/coming-out-as-autistic.md
index 1e892c8..659d303 100644
--- a/content/entry/coming-out-as-autistic.md
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@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ A combination of self-acceptance, mindfulness, and compassion has helped me make
## Atypical Sleep Pattern
Somewhat related to my hyperfocus is my atypical sleep pattern. Atypical sleep is apparently common in people with autism. I've had it for as long as I can remember. I went through my whole formal education and every job I had sleep deprived. In high school, my friends thought I was high every day because my eyes were always red. I was just sleep deprived. I had to rely on family members to wake me because no alarm would. In university, my career advisor kept telling me that I needed more rest.
-The only times in my life when I've felt adequately rested were when nothing was required of me. When I don't have a defined sleep schedule and I can sleep whenever I need, that's when I'm mentally operating at 100%. If I go to to school or a job every day, I can't catch enough sleep. When I'm sleepy, my working memory gets drastically worse too. Sometimes I'm late for appointments because I can't schedule my sleep.
+The only times in my life when I've felt adequately rested were when nothing was required of me. When I don't have a defined sleep schedule and I can sleep whenever I need, that's when I'm mentally operating at 100%. If I go to school or a job every day, I can't catch enough sleep. When I'm sleepy, my working memory gets drastically worse too. Sometimes I'm late for appointments because I can't schedule my sleep.
## Alexithymia
The last autism-related thing I wanna mention before the social difficulties is alexithymia. Alexithymia is a difficulty in identifying and describing one's emotions.
diff --git a/content/entry/documentary-the-norden-prison.md b/content/entry/documentary-the-norden-prison.md
index 656ef7f..50acfa3 100644
--- a/content/entry/documentary-the-norden-prison.md
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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Mr. Conway claims we shouldn't care about how inmates feel and they shouldn't be
People with Mr. Conway's attitude would probably say it's self-evident. Isn't it obvious they shouldn't be treated well? After all they committed a crime. To that I would give the same general answer I give to all moral questions: [What do you care about?](/2020/10/11/metaethics/). I care about minimizing the number of people in prison. I care about people getting better even if that means we have to treat them better than their victims would approve of. I care about the evidence and results from the Nordic prison system as compared to other systems.
-It really comes down to your values. If you value living in a society where where you don't have millions of citizens going through the rotating door of prison, poverty and crime more than any other country, where you don't punish and degrade people for the sake of it, where people getting better is more important than revenge, then the best working example of that is the Nordic prison model and you should want to shift other countries closer towards it.
+It really comes down to your values. If you value living in a society where you don't have millions of citizens going through the rotating door of prison, poverty and crime more than any other country, where you don't punish and degrade people for the sake of it, where people getting better is more important than revenge, then the best working example of that is the Nordic prison model and you should want to shift other countries closer towards it.
Just ask Christer Karlsson, an ex-criminal that served 27 years in a Norwegian prison:
diff --git a/content/entry/re-dkim-show-your-privates.md b/content/entry/re-dkim-show-your-privates.md
index a3144ff..7176843 100644
--- a/content/entry/re-dkim-show-your-privates.md
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00
tags: ['computing']
draft: false
---
-I recently read Ryan Castellucci's blog post, "[DKIM: Show Your Privates](https://rya.nc/dkim-privates.html)". The problem Ryan points out is that DKIM, which signs outgoing emails as a way to to reduce spam, has a negative unintended consequence: it's harder to deny that you sent an email if it gets leaked. As Ryan points out, saner messaging protocols like [OTR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging) and the [Double Ratchet Algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm) do implement cryptographic deniability of messages.
+I recently read Ryan Castellucci's blog post, "[DKIM: Show Your Privates](https://rya.nc/dkim-privates.html)". The problem Ryan points out is that DKIM, which signs outgoing emails as a way to reduce spam, has a negative unintended consequence: it's harder to deny that you sent an email if it gets leaked. As Ryan points out, saner messaging protocols like [OTR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging) and the [Double Ratchet Algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm) do implement cryptographic deniability of messages.
There is a way to mitigate the loss of cryptographic deniability in email. You simply rotate DKIM keys, invalidating the old one and publishing its private part. The point of publishing the private part is that any leaked emails which were signed with that key could be forged. Thus, one can deny past emails signed with that key.
diff --git a/content/entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md b/content/entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md
index 3dcea1f..558fba1 100644
--- a/content/entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Furthermore, teens have been prosecuted for child pornography for merely possess
"But what if the nude pictures end up in the hands of pedophiles?"
-If a 51-year-old man man solicits nude pictures from a 13-year-old girl, that's obviously a problem because consent becomes very questionable with that big of an age gap. In other words, it's likely that the girl is being manipulated. But suppose the 51-year-old man just goes online and downloads nudes of a 13-year-old girl that were leaked by somebody else. Is that harmful?
+If a 51-year-old man solicits nude pictures from a 13-year-old girl, that's obviously a problem because consent becomes very questionable with that big of an age gap. In other words, it's likely that the girl is being manipulated. But suppose the 51-year-old man just goes online and downloads nudes of a 13-year-old girl that were leaked by somebody else. Is that harmful?
## Child Pornography
diff --git a/content/entry/the-meaning-of-life.md b/content/entry/the-meaning-of-life.md
index 6d947f0..718addf 100644
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ The evolutionary perspective is the gene's perspective of what humans are here f
The final perspective I want to talk about carries the most significance. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, what better place to start than your own life perspective?
# Personal
-Why should purpose have to be divine? Doesn't it make more sense to talk about meaning and purpose as whatever makes you personally fulfilled? For example your life's purpose could come from relationships, experiences, hobbies, self-discovery, doing good, helping others, etc. The beauty of the personal sense of meaning is you get to decide it. It varies varies from person to person. Everyone can have their own individual, unique sense of purpose in the world.
+Why should purpose have to be divine? Doesn't it make more sense to talk about meaning and purpose as whatever makes you personally fulfilled? For example your life's purpose could come from relationships, experiences, hobbies, self-discovery, doing good, helping others, etc. The beauty of the personal sense of meaning is you get to decide it. It varies from person to person. Everyone can have their own individual, unique sense of purpose in the world.
At the end of the day this is really the only useful notion of meaning. There's no apparent "divine" meaning in the universe and if there were we'd probably rebel against it. We can of course observe our purpose from other points of view such as that of a gene or even a factory. From the perspective of a factory, the purpose of humans is to keep it running. But those perspectives are mostly just entertaining intellectual exercises and not what we really mean when we talk about our lives having meaning.
diff --git a/content/entry/the-self.md b/content/entry/the-self.md
index 8786f47..7e2fe83 100644
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The problem with any spoken language is that in order to be useful, it has to cr
This is something that I have always found intuitive but is an easy mistake to make in philosophy. I would argue that a rather large fraction of academic papers about philosophy aren't actually creating an interesting argument or bringing any substance to the table. Academics are simply bickering about how words should be used without even realizing it. For example, look at the [Ship of Theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus). The essential question it poses is this: "Is an object the same object if all its component parts are replaced over time?". I agree with Noam Chomsky that this is a cognitive issue manufactured by humans because we get really bent out of shape if we don't know what to label something. We have to have a label. So what we do we call something if all its parts are replaced? Do we call it something else or do we call it the same thing? Now the problem becomes more clear. It's a question about language.
-The right question is "If an object's parts are replaced, should we still call it the same object?". We could make a pros and cons list of calling it the same object versus giving it a different name and decide what makes more sense. One might think I'm being being pedantic about this and philosophers understand the real question is about what we call the object. My own personal experience has shown that this is not true. People often do not understand that they're arguing about what to call something, and it's not any deeper than that. This is called [Mistaking the Map for the Territory](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mistaking_the_map_for_the_territory).
+The right question is "If an object's parts are replaced, should we still call it the same object?". We could make a pros and cons list of calling it the same object versus giving it a different name and decide what makes more sense. One might think I'm being pedantic about this and philosophers understand the real question is about what we call the object. My own personal experience has shown that this is not true. People often do not understand that they're arguing about what to call something, and it's not any deeper than that. This is called [Mistaking the Map for the Territory](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mistaking_the_map_for_the_territory).
But we have also created another problem. What is an object? Let's take a car for example. Let's say we haven't replaced any parts. Where does the car stop and the car's environment begin? Is the air inside the car also the car? What if the car is in orbit around the earth and it has no air, is the space inside the car still the car, or is it just empty space? This questioning is ridiculous in one sense because when I say the word "car", every English speaker intuitively knows what the word "car" means. For all practical usages of the word "car" we will never have to worry about bizarre philosophical quandaries about the identity of the car (especially since there's no "Car of Theseus"). We all just sort of know what other people talk about when they talk about a "car".