X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=6a4a3dcc35e2726f07343d98455b063a3a94377a;hb=1560b0635ffd17ed1cf080a0a445e617d447653f;hp=61c5b1d1bda0356a40bc03a15b9bb11333527eca;hpb=cbece8280010a1283a1bc8c61e6ef2a94b2dd650;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 61c5b1d..6a4a3dc 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -1,10 +1,18 @@ on deck— - -_ quote second out of patience email +_ 2019 event summary _ giving up on him, don't want to waste any more time, last email With internet available— +_ except when it's net bad to have concluded Y: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/BgEG9RZBtQMLGuqm7/[Error%20communicating%20with%20LW2%20server]/comment/LgLx6AD94c2odFxs4 +_ comments on "Self-Consciousness wants to make" +_ Scott vs. Ben on Drowning Children +_ Ray and D. Xu's comments on "The Incentives" +_ "Causal vs. Social Reality" +_ elaborate on why I'm not leaking sensitive bits, by explaining what can be inferred by what was and wasn't said in public +_ what is the dictionary definition of _gestalt_ (maybe link it?) +_ better examples from "Yes Requires the Possibility of No" +_ my comment about having changed my mind about "A Fable of Science and Politics" _ me remarking to "Wilhelm" that I think I met Vanessa at Solstice once, commented on Greg Egan _ debate with Benquo and Jessicata _ more Yudkowsky Facebook comment screenshots @@ -23,8 +31,12 @@ _ dath ilan conspiracy references far editing tier— +_ footnote to explain why I always include the year with the month even though it could be inferred from context _ make sure to quote Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy before calling back to it _ tie off Anna's plot arc? +_ explain earlier that my practice of "throw money at things" also applied to my friendship with Anna +_ mention my robot cult history (I've been here since the late 'aughts) +_ ask Anna what she meant by "soldiers in an ambulance"; I was going to write up an explanation for Ben, but I don't seem to remember _ quote one more "Hill of Meaning" Tweet emphasizing fact/policy distinction _ conversation with Ben about physical injuries (this is important because it explains where the "cut my dick off rhetoric" came from) _ context of his claim to not be taking a stand @@ -71,11 +83,14 @@ _ Ben/Jessica _ Scott _ Anna _ secret posse member +_ Katie (pseudonym choice) _ Alicorn: about privacy, and for Melkor Glowfic reference link _ someone from Alicorner #drama as a hostile prereader (Swimmer?) _ maybe Kelsey (very briefly, just about her name)? -_ maybe SK (briefly about his name)? -(probably don't bother with Michael?) +_ maybe SK (briefly about his name)? (the memoir might have the opposite problem (too long) from my hostile-shorthand Twitter snipes) +(maybe don't bother with Michael?) + +_ should I buy Twitter ads to increase reach?? things to bring up in consultation emails— _ dropping "and Scott" in Jessica's description of attacking narcissim @@ -1233,7 +1248,6 @@ _Less Wrong_ had recently been rebooted with a new codebase and a new dev/admin - Yudkowsky did [quote-Tweet Colin Wright on the univariate fallacy](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1124757043997372416) (which I got to [cite in a _Less Wrong_ post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy) @@ -1266,27 +1280,6 @@ REACH panel (Subject: "Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip") -Since arguing at the object level had failed (["... To Make Predictions"](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/), ["Reply on Adult Human Females"](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/)), and arguing at the strictly meta level had failed (["... Boundaries?"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries)), the obvious thing to do next was to jump up to the meta-meta level and tell the story about why the "rationalists" were Dead To Me now, that [my price for joining](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q8evewZW5SeidLdbA/your-price-for-joining) was not being met. (Just like Ben had suggested in December and in April.) - -I found it trouble to make progress on. I felt—constrained. I didn't know how to tell the story without (as I perceived it) escalating personal conflicts or leaking info from private conversations. So instead, I mostly turned to a combination of writing bitter and insulting comments whenever I saw someone praise "the rationalists" collectively, and—more philosophy-of-language blogging! - -In August's ["Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), I explained a nuance that had only merited a passion mention in "... Boundaries?": sometimes you might want categories for different agents to _coordinate_ on, even at the cost of some statistical "fit." (This was of course generalized from a "pro-trans" argument that had occured to me, [that self-identity is an easy Schelling point when different people disagree about what "gender" they perceive someone as](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/).) - -[TODO— more blogging 2019 - -"Algorithms of Deception!" Oct 2019 - -"Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist" Oct 2019 - -I was _furious_ at "Against Lie Inflation"—oh, so _now_ you agree that making language less useful is a problem?! But then I realized Scott actually was being consistent in his own frame: he's counting "everyone is angrier" (because of more frequent lying-accusations) as a cost; but, if everyone _is_ lying, maybe they should be angry! - -"Heads I Win" Sep 2019: I was surprised by how well this did (high karma, later included in the best-of-2019 collection); Ben and Jessica had discouraged me from bothering after I - -"Firming Up ..." Dec 2019: combatting Yudkowsky's not-technically-lying shenanigans - -] - - Scott said he liked "monastic rationalism _vs_. lay rationalism" as a frame for the schism Ben was proposing. (I wish I could use this line) @@ -1500,3 +1493,9 @@ _socially load-bearing_ philosophy mistake. I currently write "trans woman", two words, as a strategic concession to the shibboleth-detectors of my target audience:[^two-words] I don't want to to _prematurely_ scare off progressive-socialized readers on account of mere orthography, when what I actually have to say is already disturbing enough.) [^two-words]: For the unfamiliar: the [doctrine here](https://medium.com/@cassiebrighter/please-write-trans-women-as-two-words-487f153444fb) is that "transwoman" is cissexist, because "trans" is properly an adjective indicating a type of woman. + +Alicorn writes (re Kelsey's anorexia): "man it must be so weird to have a delusion and know it's a delusion and still have it" +what's really weird is having a delusion, knowing it's a delusion, and _everyone else_ insists your delusion is true +... and I'm not allowed to say that without drawing on my diplomacy budget, which puts a permanent distance between me and the group + +you can't imagine contemporary Yudkowsky adhering to Crocker's rules (http://sl4.org/crocker.html)