X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fif-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md;h=14bbd279e0f03beaa901be1c6c18080d2c3e2471;hb=16d1b979ca9082e6827c42101ae5a4e5f41b23dd;hp=67f52f92494184b8af51af7966b026dada6c3e0a;hpb=a0893709777b0d4d55a5702536aa22aeb7749e54;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md index 67f52f9..14bbd27 100644 --- a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md +++ b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md @@ -342,7 +342,9 @@ I said I would bite that bullet: yes! Yes, I was trying to figure out whether I (This seemed correlated with the recurring stalemated disagreement within our coordination group, where Michael/Ben/Jessica would say, "Fraud, if that word _ever_ meant anything", and while I agreed that they were pointing to an important way in which things were messed up, I was still sympathetic to the Caliphate-defender's reply that the Vassarite usage of "fraud" was motte-and-baileying between vastly different senses of _fraud_; I wanted to do _more work_ to formulate a _more precise theory_ of the psychology of deception to describe exactly how things are messed up a way that wouldn't be susceptible to the motte-and-bailey charge.) -[TODO: Ziz's protest; Somni? ("peek behind the fog of war" 6 Feb)] +[TODO: Ziz's protest; + +[TODO: Somni? ("peek behind the fog of war" 6 Feb)] [TODO: rude maps] @@ -350,8 +352,6 @@ I said I would bite that bullet: yes! Yes, I was trying to figure out whether I [TODO: complicity and friendship] -[TODO: affordance widths] - [TODO: I had a productive winter blogging vacation in December 2019 pull the trigger on "On the Argumentative Form"; I was worried about leaking info from private conversations, but I'm in the clear "That's your hobbyhorse" is an observation anyone could make from content alone] @@ -484,13 +484,13 @@ Given that I spent so many hours on this little research/writing project in earl [TODO: "Autogenderphilia Is Common" https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/10/autogenderphilia-is-common-and-not-especially-related-to-transgender/] +----- + On 1 June 2020, I received a Twitter DM from _New York Times_ reporter Cade Metz, who said he was "exploring a story about the intersection of the rationality community and Silicon Valley". I sent him an email saying that I would be happy to talk, but that I'd actually been pretty disappointed with the community lately: I was worried that the social pressures of trying to _be_ a "community" and protect the group's status (_e.g._, from _New York Times_ reporters who might portray us in an unflattering light??) incentivize people to compromise on the ideals of _systematically correct reasoning_ that made the community valuable in the first place. -He never got back to me. +He never got back to me. Three weeks later, all existing _Slate Star Codex_ posts were taken down. -[TODO: three weeks later, Slate Star Codex went down - my slate_starchive.py script -] +A [lone post on the main page](https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/) explained that the _New York Times_ piece was going to reveal Alexander's real last name, and that he was taking his posts down as a defensive measure. (No blog, no story?) I [wrote a script](/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=commitdiff;h=21731ba6f1191) (`slate_starchive.py`) to replace the _Slate Star Codex_ links on this blog with links to the most recent Internet Archive copy. ------ @@ -647,6 +647,10 @@ https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10158853851009228 _ex cathedra_ statement that gender categories are not an exception to the rule, only 1 year and 8 months after asking for it ] +And really, that _should_ have been the end of the story. At the trifling cost of two years of my life, we finally got a clarification from Yudkowsky that you can't define the word _woman_ any way you like. I didn't think I was entitled to anything more than that. I was satsified. I still published "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception" in January 2021, but if I hadn't been further provoked, I wouldn't have occasion to continue waging the robot-cult religious civil war. + +[TODO: psychiatric disaster, breakup with Vassar group, this was really bad for me] + [TODO: "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception" Abram was right @@ -657,7 +661,3 @@ Embedded agency means that the AI shouldn't have to fundamentally reason differe somehow accuracy seems more fundamental than power or resources ... could that be formalized? ] - -And really, that _should_ have been the end of the story. At the trifling cost of two years of my life, we finally got a clarification from Yudkowsky that you can't define the word _woman_ any way you like. I didn't think I was entitled to anything more than that. I was satsified. I still published "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception" in January 2021, but if I hadn't been further provoked, I wouldn't have occasion to continue waging the robot-cult religious civil war. - -[TODO: psychiatric disaster, breakup with Vassar group, this was really bad for me]