X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=d34acf0ef668b95953a60456759bc68b2ef416a1;hb=2cb053e54cd16f2c696b42c74d2b525856001359;hp=6919ceb44e37912c2f67ddaf514e90797cfa1f9c;hpb=0705ee48b74d1e8ea2beed8926de2b5e1d2df7c4;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 6919ceb..d34acf0 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ +on deck— +_ 2019 event summary +_ giving up on him, don't want to waste any more time, last email + + With internet available— +_ 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 +_ "20% of the ones with penises" someone in the comments saying, "It is a woman's body", and Yudkowsky saying "duly corrected" +_ that neuroscience paper backing the _ Prudentbot § from "Robust Cooperation" paper +_ JDP on warrant and standing _ compile Categories references from the Dolphin War Twitter thread _ tussle with Ruby on "Causal vs. Social Reality" _ when did I ask Leon about getting easier tasks? @@ -12,6 +22,7 @@ _ dath ilan conspiracy references far editing tier— +_ make sure to quote Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy before calling back to it _ tie off Anna's plot arc? _ 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) @@ -1422,9 +1433,9 @@ Kathryn Paige Harden, _The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality_ ("Fake Optimization Critiera") -John Snygg, _A New Approach to Differential Geometry Using Clifford's Geometric Algebra_ recounts the Arabic mathematician al-Biruni (973–1048). +John Snygg, _A New Approach to Differential Geometry Using Clifford's Geometric Algebra_ (§4.7.3) recounts the Arabic mathematician al-Biruni (973–1048). -> More is known about al-Briruni than most Islamic mathematicians because he included bits of autobiographical writings in some of his academic publications. In one of these, _Shadows_, he relates an encounter with a hard-line orthodox cleric. THe cleric admonished al-Biruni because he had used an astronomical instrument with Byzantine months engraved on it to determine the time of prayers. Al-Briuni replied: +> More is known about al-Briruni than most Islamic mathematicians because he included bits of autobiographical writings in some of his academic publications. In one of these, _Shadows_, he relates an encounter with a hard-line orthodox cleric. The cleric admonished al-Biruni because he had used an astronomical instrument with Byzantine months engraved on it to determine the time of prayers. Al-Briuni replied: >> "The Byzantines also eat food. Then do not imitate them in this!" (Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence) @@ -1484,3 +1495,7 @@ If someone says to me, "You're right, but I can't admit this in public because i But we can't even have that, because saying "You're right, but I can't admit this in public" requires _trust_. _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.