X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-meaning-sections.md;h=2d40acc8b099207efbdc29a40ddf11b447f83691;hb=900f40fcb823b81be9e3d395241eba5997a88532;hp=699096e1c5e6131b93d59cfedbfde1a3e2f5ff6f;hpb=44d617d2629a7508dfe9626392febe60f23205cf;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md index 699096e..2d40acc 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxZBrbVqZnU I realize it wasn't personal—no one _consciously_ thinking "I'm going to trick autogynpehilic men into cutting their dicks off", but the most recent pronoun update -https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228 +https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228 > I would not know how to write a different viewpoint as a sympathetic character. [...] @@ -363,3 +363,33 @@ Taking it as a given that English speakers are stuck with gendered third-person https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters > anything that people are motivated to argue about is not arbitrary. It is being controlled by invisible criteria of evaluation, it has connotations with consequences + +If Scott Alexander's "The Categories Were Made For Man ..." had never been published, would we still be talking about dolphins and trees in the same way? + +Scott has so many fans— +https://jasoncrawford.org/guide-to-scott-alexander-and-slate-star-codex +https://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexandria/ +https://guzey.com/favorite/slate-star-codex/ + +Nate on dolphins (June 2021)—a dogwhistle?? +https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1401670792409014273 +Yudkowsky retweeted Nate on dolphins— +https://archive.is/Ecsca + +my rationalist community has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my community's name + +cite to "Not Especially Related to Transgender" +https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721 + +"Hero Licensing": to provide an earnest-token of all the techniques I couldn't show + +uncritically (uncharacteristically uncritically) taking the newly-ascendant gender-identity theory for granted ("lots of women wouldn't be particularly disturbed if they had a male body; the ones we know as 'trans' are just the ones with unusually strong female gender identities"), without considering the obvious-in-retrospect hypothesis that "guy who speculates about his female analogue on a transhumanist mailing list in 2004" and "guy who thinks he might be a trans women in Berkeley 2016" are the same guy. + +https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/logical_dt/?l=5gc +It even leaked into Big Yud!!! "Counterfactuals were made for humanity, not humanity for counterfactuals." + +If hiring a community matchmaker was worth it, why don't my concerns count, too? + +When I protested that I wasn't expecting a science fictional Utopia of pure reason, but just for people to continue to be right about things they already got right in 2008, he said, "Doesn't matter—doesn't _fucking_ matter." + +humans have honor instead of TDT. "That's right! I'm appealing to your honor!"