X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=932fa61c46176e4b394e2d2c7c60ff8447398a2f;hb=02434298510b4d3b7978df044fdca7e7b706a55b;hp=f2c183206486fac78d9b115302a6558eb35f7dec;hpb=bbb4315cfe37f42c0a61994345d427d876ff06a5;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index f2c1832..932fa61 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -1,16 +1,18 @@ on deck— -- § about privacy norms, and my secret research project (research report on gout) -_ finish and polish § on reaching out a fourth time -_ talk about the 2019 Christmas party _ Let's recap _ If he's reading this ... _ Perhaps if the world were at stake +_ ¶ about social justice and defying threats _ ¶ about body odors _ regrets and wasted time +_ talk about the 2019 Christmas party _ excerpt 2nd "out of patience" email with internet available— +_ Sarah Barellies cover links +_ "watchful waiting" +_ Atlantic article on "My Son Wears Dresses" https://archive.is/FJNII _ in "especially galling" §: from "Changing Emotions"—"somehow it's always about sex when men are involved"—he even correctly pinpointing AGP in ordinary men (as was obvious back then), just without the part that AGP _is_ "trans" _ "look at what ended up happening"—look up whether that exact quote from from http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/47 or https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/97 _ Discord history with Scott (leading up to 2019 Christmas party, and deferring to Tailcalled on SSC survey question wording) @@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ _ refusing to give a probability (When Not to Use Probabilities? Shut Up and Do far editing tier— +_ 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 _ rephrase "gamete size" discussion to make it clearer that Yudkowsky's proposal also implicitly requires people to be agree about the clustering thing @@ -39,7 +42,6 @@ _ address the "maybe it's good to be called names" point from "Hill" thread _ explain "court ruling" earlier _ 2019 Discord discourse with Alicorner _ edit discussion of "anti-trans" side given that I later emphasize that "sides" shouldn't be a thing -_ first appearance of "Caliphate" _ explain the adversarial pressure on privacy norms _ first EY contact was asking for public clarification or "I am being silenced" (so Glomarizing over "unsatisfying response" or no response isn't leaking anything Yudkowksy cares about) _ Nov. 2018 continues thread from Oct. 2016 conversation @@ -49,8 +51,6 @@ _ clarify sequence of outreach attempts _ clarify existence of a shadow posse member _ mention Nov. 2018 conversation with Ian somehow; backref on bidding for attention again; subject line from Happy Price 2016 _ Said on Yudkowsky's retreat to Facebook being bad for him -_ explain first use of "rationalist" -_ explain first use of Center for Applied Rationality _ erasing agency of Michael's friends, construed as a pawn _ mention the fact that Anna had always taken a "What You Can't Say" strategy _ when to use first _vs. last names @@ -58,7 +58,15 @@ _ explain why I'm not being charitable in 2018 thread analysis, that at the time _ January 2019 meeting with Ziz and Gwen _ better summary of Littman _ explain Rob -_ explain or omit first mention of "egregore" +_ edit the child transition section in a way that Kay Brown would be OK with, have a few sentences about Clever Hans before the wrap-up + + +terms to explain on first mention— +_ "Caliphate" +_ "rationalist" +_ Center for Applied Rationality +_ MIRI +_ "egregore" people to consult before publishing, for feedback or right of objection— @@ -167,7 +175,12 @@ Because of the particular historical moment in which we live, we end up facing p I view this conflict as entirely incidental, something that [would happen in some form in any place and time](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cKrgy7hLdszkse2pq/archimedes-s-chronophone), rather than having to do with American politics or "the left" in particular. In a Christian theocracy, our analogues would get in trouble for beliefs about evolution; in the old Soviet Union, our analogues would get in trouble for [thinking about market economics](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/) (as a [positive technical discipline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfare_economics#Proof_of_the_first_fundamental_theorem) adjacent to game theory, not yoked to a particular normative agenda). -Incidental or not, the conflict is real, and everyone smart knows it—even if it's not easy to _prove_ that everyone smart knows it, because everyone smart is very careful what they say in public. (I am not smart.) Scott Aaronson wrote of [the Kolmogorov Option](https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3376) (which Alexander aptly renamed [Kolmorogov complicity](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/): serve the cause of Truth by cultivating a bubble that focuses on truths that won't get you in trouble with the local political authorities. This after the Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov, who _knew better than to pick fights he couldn't win_. +Incidental or not, the conflict is real, and everyone smart knows it—even if it's not easy to _prove_ that everyone smart knows it, because everyone smart is very careful what they say in public. (I am not smart.) + + +(which Alexander aptly renamed [Kolmorogov complicity](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/): + + Becuase of the conflict, and because all the prominent high-status people are running a Kolmogorov Option strategy, and because we happen to have to a _wildly_ disproportionate number of _people like me_ around, I think being "pro-trans" ended up being part of the community's "shield" against external political pressure, of the sort that perked up after [the February 2021 _New York Times_ hit piece about Alexander's blog](https://archive.is/0Ghdl). (The _magnitude_ of heat brought on by the recent _Times_ piece and its aftermath was new, but the underlying dynamics had been present for years.)