X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fa-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md;h=f9dae97e392bdeb328999b0a61e3d895a8547398;hb=1611700ef43b0464611f49d0c177bf66f33b820b;hp=797d03f8e4922f5af35161fac510971090d4a6c3;hpb=050bf8d04c8a585e969447000d0be217c26041d0;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md index 797d03f..f9dae97 100644 --- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md @@ -158,6 +158,20 @@ Straight men who fantasize about being women do not particularly resemble actual [TODO: one thing that kept coming up during the private and Facebook discussions was this category boundary argument—including, e.g., with MIRI comms director Rob Bensinger. That part, I knew I could win] -[TODO: so when I quit my job in order to write, the capstone of my sabbatical was to be "The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions", which I later followed up with the "Reply on Adult Human Females" ... and mostly, things were fine—I was disappointed with my impact, but it wasn't grounds to declare the whole community a fraud] +[TODO: so when I quit my job in order to write (mention HRT experiment too), the capstone of my sabbatical was to be "The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions", which I later followed up with the "Reply on Adult Human Females" ... and mostly, things were fine—I was disappointed with my impact, but it wasn't grounds to declare the whole community a fraud] [TODO: I was at the company offsite browsing Twitter (which I had recently joined with fantasies of self-cancelling) when I saw the "Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning", and I _flipped the fuck out_] + +[TODO: getting support from Michael + Ben + Sarah, harrassing Scott and Eliezer] + +[TODO: proton concession] + +[TODO: "Blegg Mode", "Where to Draw the Boundaries?", and failure] + +[TODO: more blogging (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5aqumaym7Jd2qhDcy/containment-thread-on-the-motivation-and-political-context), 2019 Christmas party, disclaimer on "Categories Were Made"] + +[TODO: categories clarification from EY—victory?!] + +[TODO: "simplest and best" pronoun proposal, sometimes personally prudent] + +[TODO: why you should care; no one should like Scott and Eliezer's proposals]