X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-sections.md;h=aa533e0eb361fe45a07fab590d299758c3cfca03;hb=90587a79488dde20d5384ab1e865eccb2473dd70;hp=f9b4b2bd5c0c2607671d721afe30bc4cd76e6f08;hpb=55baaffd81b3308f101b2aec1e277402ab3adab8;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md index f9b4b2b..aa533e0 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md @@ -95,3 +95,8 @@ Sidebar: I'm avoiding naming anyone in this post even when linking to their publ I'd almost rather we all pretend this narrative was written in a ["nearby" Everett branch](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9cgBF6BQ2TRB3Hy4E/and-the-winner-is-many-worlds) whose history diverged from ours maybe forty-five years ago—a world almost exactly like our own as far as the macro-scale institutional and ideological forces at play, but with different individual people filling out the relevant birth cohorts. _My_ specific identity doesn't matter; the specific identities of any individuals I mention while telling my story don't matter. What matters is the _structure_: I'm just a sample from the _distribution_ of what happens when an American upper-middle-class high-Openness high-Neuroticism late-1980s-birth-cohort IQ-130 78%-Ashkenazi obligate-autogynephilic boy falls in with this kind of robot cult in this kind of world. End sidebar. + +---- + +Schelling: "One must seek, in other words, a rationalization by which to deny oneself too great a reward from the opponent's concession, otherwise the concession will not be made."'— this was basically what I was hoping to do with "Where to Draw The Boundaries?"—I was hoping to get a victory on _just_ the philosophy-of-language part +