X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fnotes.txt;h=1f313920e6cefdedc89fb323a83b2b79d29be704;hb=768225e86bcd9acf1ae09b8a275b4d2dca6c6faa;hp=c81c9856e66403e49f31115d60ba58541583b7b1;hpb=3bec30b88547dc92385bcd7534a6e4cc1825cfd2;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index c81c985..1f31392 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1888,6 +1888,8 @@ Still citing it (14 November 21): https://twitter.com/captain_mrs/status/1459846 Still citing it (December 21 podcast): https://www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/2021/12/152-frame-control-with-aella/ +Still citing it (2 February 22): https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-do-i-suck/comment/4838964 + The correctness of this post has been disputed at length: [object-level reply](http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/), [meta-level reply (part 1)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries), [meta-level reply (part 2)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception), [supplementary material on dolphins/whales](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vhp2sW6iBhNJwqcwP/blood-is-thicker-than-water) @@ -2918,33 +2920,43 @@ https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-places-where-truth-goes-to-die ----- -There's a glowfic thread where Thellim is _horrified_ at how shallow and superficial Jane Austen characters are, in contrast to what a human being _should_ be: "Real people have concepts of their own minds, and contemplate their prior ideas of themselves in relation to a continually observed flow of their actual thoughts, and try to improve both their self-models and their selves." +> [African-Americans as an ethnic group were] fundamentally created by a gigantic act of human violation and cruelty +https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ruvu1k/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_03/hrdqmzk/ -This horror is basically how I feel about trans culture. It actively discourages self-modeling! (People who have cross-sex fantasies are encouraged to reify them into an gender identity which everyone else is supposed to unquestioningly accept. Politically-unfavorable critical questions about what's actually going on etiologically, what it means for an identity to be true, _&c._ are strongly discouraged as hateful, hurtful, distressing, _&c._) +https://letter.wiki/conversation/1232 -https://www.glowfic.com/posts/4508?page=20 +---- -_She is not giving up that easily. Not on an entire planet full of people._ +https://fairplayforwomen.com/transgender-prisoners/ -https://www.glowfic.com/posts/4508?page=21 +https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10156642447060199 +Is there a named TV Trope for "one of our heroes seemingly betrays their comrades, but later turns out to have reasons to behave as they did (e.g., a secret undercover mission, or they were being extorted) even though they were prevented from explaining at the time" scenarios? +Okay. Now what do you call it when one of our heroes EXPLAINS CLEARLY AND AT LENGTH the reasons for their actions, but their comrades still regard it as a betrayal because they just refuse to follow the argument? ------ +https://ymeskhout.substack.com/p/three-little-pronouns-go-to-court -> [African-Americans as an ethnic group were] fundamentally created by a gigantic act of human violation and cruelty -https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ruvu1k/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_03/hrdqmzk/ +https://hwfo.substack.com/p/memespace-egregores-and-google-maps -https://letter.wiki/conversation/1232 +Thomas Huxley's classical liberalism +https://mathcs.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/B&W.html ----- +Mom's attitude towards son's obvious AGP flips on coming out +https://twitter.com/DrLesby/status/1484688293346234370 + +https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/transgender-reality-i-didnt-know-there-was-another-side/ + +https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/the-way-we-werent -in the context of quantifying predictions, [in the post evaluating his 2020 predictions, Alexander writes](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/2020-predictions-calibration-results): +https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/02/01/what-the-sex-in-the-city-reboot-can-teach-parents-about-gender-questioning-kids/ -> We have a debate every year over whether 50% predictions are meaningful in this paradigm; feel free to continue it. +sex and occupational interests replication; I think surprisingly discrete cluster graph is averages by country across people vs. things (which is how it ends up being so discrete; it's not tracking individuals on multiple levels) +https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261438 -Someone reading this who trusted Alexander as a general-purpose intellectual authority ("the best of us", the "rationalists") might walk away with the idea that it's an open problem whether 50% binary predictions are meaningful—perhaps reasoning, if the immortal Scott Alexander doesn't know, then who am I to know? +https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/61883/wear-what-you-want-why-i-ve-changed-my-mind +> They only wear our clothing because they haven't found a way to wear our skin yet. -But it's not. On this website, [Rafael Harth explains why 50% isn't special](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DAc4iuy4D3EiNBt9B/how-to-evaluate-50-predictions). I claim that this should actually be pretty obvious to competent quantitative thinkers, even if it's not obvious to the collective _SSC_/_ACX_ commentariat, and Alexander can't tell which of his commenters are competent quantitative thinkers. +https://mrwinstonmarshall.medium.com/why-im-leaving-mumford-sons-e6e731bbc255 -I don't particularly fault Scott for this: [by his own admission, he's not a math guy](https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/31/the-parable-of-the-talents/). (And the vast majority of math people can't write as well or as fast as Scott. No one is the best at everything!) Rather, I'm saying that a culture that wants to _actually_ be right about everything would do better to _just_ focus on being right on the object level, without [wireheading on its own promises of being right about everything](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/effective-altruism-is-self-recommending/). +John Stuart Mill also believed that the best people are androgynous: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048402.1986.9755426?journalCode=rajp20 -(Incidentally, Scott himself is actually very good about [not trying to claim more authority than is actually justified by his performance](https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/04/some-clarifications-on-rationalist-blogging/). His fans should try to be more like him along this dimension!) +Blogroll maybe? https://strigoi.substack.com/p/a-few-notes-on-agp