X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fsocial-strategy-notes-february-2019.md;h=075a753f10e9a3a0db86d99ed01a076258625949;hb=4b9d266b1377975a202c855cd47acd2275f26567;hp=bb33e525734874899ec1bf4080a40254e5554556;hpb=07556cbcb06576cfec27a24889c762c233f81223;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 bb33e52..075a753 100644 --- a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md +++ b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ _(Attention conservation notice: petulant Diarly-like navel-gazing is boring. [P 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. @@ -149,3 +148,4 @@ most of the ill will is on my side From the standpoint of a cultural minority, it feels like the dominant culture is constantly microaggressing against your interests, and sometimes you want to push back in self-defense, with the justification that they started it. But from the dominant culture's perspective, it was just being itself, and the "pushback" is the aggression, and the minority started it. +Tail didn't even want to Tweet me?!?