X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=451ab0e63f92e96f65e51b0e3b685209911d90c1;hb=cb87f33426c1214bc0d08c97c2385cb2957750fb;hp=db20b4d1b8334bfb3684a3841e56d55e3aaa5fd2;hpb=347fe081c613e358d54641699b37895ae0ae0be4;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index db20b4d..451ab0e 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ The thing about our crowd is that we have a lamentably low proportion of women ( https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/142995164286/i-was-at-a-slate-star-codex-meetup. "We are solving the gender ratio issue one transition at a time" - - So, a striking thing about my series of increasingly frustrating private conversations and subsequent public Facebook meltdown (the stress from which soon landed me in psychiatric jail, but that's [another](/2017/Mar/fresh-princess/) [story](/2017/Jun/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words/)) was the tendency for some threads of conversation to get _derailed_ on some variation of, "Well, the word _woman_ doesn't necessarily mean that," often with a link to ["The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/), a 2014 post by Scott Alexander, the _second_ most prominent writer in our robot cult. So, this _really_ wasn't what I was trying to talk about; _I_ thought I was trying to talk about autogynephilia as an _empirical_ theory in psychology, the truth or falsity of which obviously cannot be altered by changing the meanings of words. Psychology is a complicated empirical science: no matter how "obvious" I might think something is, I have to admit that I could be wrong—not just as a formal profession of modesty, but _actually_ wrong in the real world. @@ -683,8 +681,6 @@ https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5310 contrast to masochism being an infohazard in dath ilan: in real life, when your sexuality is considered an infrohazard, you don't take it lying down -postyud - Scott has the power to set narratives, as evidenced by his attack on Michael hijacking Jessica's thread maybe he should have some sympathy for Stephen J. Gould's intellectual crimes @@ -748,4 +744,40 @@ https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1801140#reply-1801140 > When somebody stops coordinating with you, stop coordinating with them. It's not 'punishment' to Defect against somebody who's Defecting against you, in a cooperation-defection dilemma; you're just withdrawing the Cooperation you were trying to coordinate with them https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1801374#reply-1801374 -Scott thinks open notes are dumb: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/jia4ox/has_scott_written_about_this_im_curious_what_his/ga6vhke/ +I joined the "Eliezerfic" server in spite of my enmity, and JoshTriplett is in there (contrary to my gut instinct that Rust peeps hate my rationalist peeps) + +Tweet about "unvirtuous to just believe me"—well, YES + +The cowardice is remarkable, coming from someone who otherwise + +jbeshir +> I have a writer/author friend, they had a problem a couple or so times with people who get really really into the work and community, then in their mind got disappointed in some way- and that investments converts at a surprisingly high exchange rate directly into investment in making your life worse. It... happens. +—this makes a callout post or Twitter thread seem less appealing + + +[previously, I had felt guilty about being less successfully feminst than Robby https://nothingismere.com/2013/12/26/union-names-objections-and-replies/] +[internet pharmacy] + +Rubices— +> whereas I could imagine reading almost the same post on sneerclub and turning into a prickle about it +Lorelai— +> me when other trans girls call themselves and me AGP vs when genuine Blanchardians do + +https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/understanding-relationship-conflicts-clashing-trauma + +postyud; Yudkowskyism without Yudkowsky + +if you know Reality is red, blue, or green, and I know Reality is red but am trying to maximize the probability you assign to green, I can truthfully say "it's not blue" + +Gell-Mann amnesia + +EY's commenting guidelines + +> Sneerclub gives him an excuse to just not engage with legitimate criticism +https://twitter.com/satisfiesvalues/status/1524475059695505409 + +flu virus that cures Borderer culture +https://twitter.com/Kenku_Allaryi/status/1524646257976877057 + +Zvi claims the condescension is important information, which is why it's such a betrayal when he uses the condesension to score points +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ax695frGJEzGxFBK4/biology-inspired-agi-timelines-the-trick-that-never-works?commentId=HB3BL3Sa6MxSszqdq