X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-notes.txt;h=c10adb3c8039a1b3077815761a3c1ee3709d8be5;hb=80966ce1e83c3e86e78e9b360c0edd8e551785ea;hp=fb933704e100c0c27cf8d10fcc5b1fc5cd6dae3f;hpb=ad8ad2a07ecc297450da56a1b80b689b640f0835;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index fb93370..c10adb3 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -77,16 +77,12 @@ it's naive to think you can win against an egregore 1000 times bigger than you the Church -won't you be embarrassed to leave if we create utopia - won't all those trans women be embarrassed after the singularity we live in a world where reason doesn't work _not_ gaslight me about the most important thing in my life? -I don't think I'm setting my price for joining particularly high here? - There could be similarly egregious errors that I'm not as sensitive too I don't think you can build an aligned superintelligence from a culture this crazy @@ -165,6 +161,7 @@ chapter and verse I will try to be less silly about "my thing is actually important for the world" claims, when what I really mean is that I'm just not a consequentialist about speech +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N2pENnTPB75sfc9kb/outside-the-laboratory "Outside the Laboratory" dumbness could be selection rather than causal I don't expect anyone to take a stand for a taboo topic that they don't care about @@ -543,5 +540,24 @@ but ... that's my entire social circle If I can't ragequit the community, I have to do the analogue of going to grad school, while hating school—I don't have an exit this time -(Picture me playing Hermione Granger in an adaptation of the Great Teacher's famous _Harry Potter_ fanfic: "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!") +(Picture me playing Hermione Granger in a post-Singularity adaptation of the Great Teacher's famous _Harry Potter_ fanfic (Emma Watson having loaned me a copy of her body for the occasion): "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!") + +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WLJwTJ7uGPA5Qphbp/trying-to-try +> it's a lens through which you can view many-but-not-all personal dilemmas—"What standard am I holding myself to? Is it high enough?" + +see, you're doing this "reasoning about sex differences" thing, and you're allowed to do the reasoning-about-sex-differences thing because you're female. (Same reason Nixon could go to China, and I'm allowed to express gender-identity skepticism.) But since everyone else is required to speak as if gender identity is real and sex differences aren't (because those are the rules for being a good person in Berkeley), we get an equilibrium where discrimination against transfems is a huge Issue +I'm being incredibly cynical here and it feels awful, but I just ... can't take the things people say literally anymore; I tried, and it drove me crazy + +everything anyone says is "true" if the speaker is allowed to define their own category boundaries! + +if I'm allowed to have unflattering psychological theories about other people, then those people are also allowed to have unflattering psychological theories about me—not just as a matter of procedural fairness, but "symmetry" in the physics sense (the Rules are universal and don't depend on who "I" am) + +"If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything." —Daniel Dennett + +> "The Choice between Good and Bad," said the Lord of Dark in a slow, careful voice, as though explaining something to a child, "is not a matter of saying 'Good!' It is about deciding which is which." + +inside views are just outside views against a finer-grained method of constructing reference classes + +["Fear not to touch the best / The truth shall be thy warrant"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/trb9HPWFk8Gy9MBdN/less-wrong-poetry-corner-walter-raleigh-s-the-lie) +more of my Overcoming-Bias-era sex differences denialism: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/XM9SwdBGn8ATf8kq3/c/comment/Evc7xKXjd4LaRR26c