X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=9e3f25cdcb019bac52feda632d0b01e773306b52;hb=7225f9f2c2c3b2fac2a562c34712e0efa486ca46;hp=df2cec0566d43ccf0f58a948d9aa58466f7066f9;hpb=832a039e597e298a9cc484f8c2b8832129b8bc56;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index df2cec0..9e3f25c 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ _ the other Twitter conversation incl. Tail where Yudkowsky says he's not taking _ the exchange on old OB where I said to acknowledge that not all men _want_ to be masculine _ screenshot Rob's Facebook comment which I link _ compile Categories references from the Dolphin War +_ dates of subsequent philosophy-of-language posts far editing tier— _ clarify why Michael thought Scott was "gaslighting" me, include "beeseech bowels of Christ" @@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ _ better summary of Littman + people to consult before publishing, for feedback or right of objection— _ Iceman _ Ben/Jessica @@ -504,10 +506,6 @@ a rationality community that can't think about _practical_ issues that affect ou It's a _problem_ if public intellectuals in the current year need to pretend to be dumber than seven-year-olds in 2016 -> _Perhaps_, replied the cold logic. _If the world were at stake._ -> -> _Perhaps_, echoed the other part of himself, _but that is not what was actually happening._ -https://www.yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/the-sword-of-good https://www.readthesequences.com/ > Because it is all, in the end, one thing. I talked about big important distant problems and neglected immediate life, but the laws governing them aren't actually different. @@ -987,3 +985,15 @@ Thoughts on your proposed cruxes: 1 (harmful inferences) is an unworkable AI des https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1436025983522381827 > Well, Zack hopefully shouldn't see this, but I do happen to endorse everything you just said, for your own personal information. + + +[SECTION about monastaries (with Ben and Anna in April 2019) +I complained to Anna: "Getting the right answer in public on topic _X_ would be too expensive, so we won't do it" is _less damaging_ when the set of such Xes is _small_. It looked to me like we added a new forbidden topic in the last ten years, without rolling back any of the old ones. + +"Reasoning in public is too expensive; reasoning in private is good enough" is _less damaging_ when there's some sort of _recruiting pipeline_ from the public into the monasteries: lure young smart people in with entertaining writing and shiny math, _then_ gradually undo their political brainwashing once they've already joined your cult. (It had [worked on me](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)!) + +I would be sympathetic to "rationalist" leaders like Anna or Yudkowsky playing that strategy if there were some sort of indication that they had _thought_, at all, about the pipeline problem—or even an indication that there _was_ an intact monastery somewhere. +] + +> Admitting something when being pushed a little, but never thinking it spontaneously and hence having those thoughts absent from your own thought processes, remains not sane. +https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1501218503990431745