X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fsocial-strategy-notes-february-2019.md;h=013fe7d14003cb79fbc9a483ab08585a8688c69a;hb=0563c194d4263dbba64f80f8e2c86bbd88d1a8d9;hp=7cbc944cdf240dec2f49c96a5571c042bc836396;hpb=b8f6d9b2a313c4d62329ed0fbc5e819fc9fafba2;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md index 7cbc944..013fe7d 100644 --- a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md +++ b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md @@ -1,10 +1,19 @@ -Title: Social Strategy Notes, February 2019 +Title: Social Strategy Notes, March 2019 Date: 2020-01-01 Category: commentary Tags: personal, software industry Status: draft -_(Attention conservation notice: petulant navel-gazing is boring. [Please subscribe](/feeds/all.atom.xml) for actual content later, I double-dog promise!)_ +_(Attention conservation notice: petulant Diarly-like navel-gazing is boring. [Please subscribe](/feeds/all.atom.xml) for actual content later, I double-dog promise!)_ + +I haven't been doing so well for most of the past three-and-change months. + +This needs some context-setting. So, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this little intellectual subculture that was founded on an ideal of absolute truthseeking. Sure, anyone will _say_ that their beliefs are true, but you can tell most people aren't being very serious about it. _We_ were going to be serious: with a shared bedrock of knowledge of cognitive biases, reflectivity, and Bayesian probability theory bequeathed to us by our founders, _we_ were going to make serious collective intellectual progress in a way that had [never been](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nu3wa6npK4Ry66vFp/a-sense-that-more-is-possible) [done before](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/), and possibly save our entire future light cone from the coming robot apocalypse! + +At least, that was the vision _I_ internalized in the late 'aughts. Others who were present may remember things slightly differently. + +And so, as I previously blogged, it was _kind of a shock_ in 2016 when I moved to "Portland" (which is actually Berkeley), noticed that + February has been a pretty exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession! @@ -73,6 +82,10 @@ tempted to escalate to misgendering just as a protest against mind control (even How strong is the hypothesized "if you ever gerrymander a category, then parsimony is ever after your enemy" effect? +—the hypothesis that it's a big effect, is just a hypothesis; maybe compartmentalization is safe. If I think I'm doing rationality better than everyone else, then that should _show up_ in me making progress on other subjects! + +"categories are arbitrary" is _generalized anti-epistemology_ that wouldn't have even _occured_ to anyone if they weren't trying to protect a broken belief + clickthrough rates are bad, which is a point against the bundling strategy of writing good non-gender-war content under the same pseudonym lack of a positive vision @@ -95,7 +108,7 @@ my obsessive personality (being angry about school felt _just_ like this) B.'s advice about the unwarranted assumption of good faith -summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about private conversations +summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about non-public conversations part of the reason I've been slow to finish my draft to Ozy is the sense that it doesn't really matter @@ -106,3 +119,26 @@ at first I was upset about two-types in 2016/17, but that may have been prematur "Wilhelm" told me to give up, but I have a _massive_ homefield advantage that doesn't port; that's an incentive to stand my ground and fight a culture war, unpleasant as that is trans women who I love and admire and don't want to hurt—but who are a _different thing_ from actual women—_sufficiently_ different in a way that deserves either a separate noun, _or_ at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness ("women"/cis-women as the central thing, and "trans" as a wierd version); the "women, cis or trans; neither kind more central than the other" is not going to fly. Which isn't to say that "cis" is a bad word to have (I don't mind having words for "straight" or "heterosexual") (this could be its own post) + +"We're not actually doing the bad reasoning you're accusing us of" dodge is not credible; we had a whole goddamned sequence on this + +https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/ + +pulling my punches somewhat "Why can't we define 'woman' that way?" I was trying to be conciliatory with, "You can, but sometimes I want to use the word in other ways", but maybe that just got read as a sign of weakness; a more aggressive stance would have been "Because [37 Ways Words Can Be Wrong], that's fucking why" + +https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/ + +"Beatrice"'s disavowal + +embarrassing myself + +rationalists are _really good_ at free speech norms + +progressive virtue signaling—but when I say it, it's not just a sneer; it's a + +https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1084628483748184064 + +test case: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/ + +https://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php +— \ No newline at end of file