X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fnotes.txt;h=98df9050ada75a287a91dcdc10fd5d3668543da7;hb=c5eae2d8726d1deb2e5683273c3986a86acfbb44;hp=5bef8352e9a28ab93d8a67fef9d1296b222aa2d2;hpb=919c087dbd7775ade1e827785bc461976dea20e3;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 5bef835..98df905 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1224,16 +1224,10 @@ a Facebook acquaintance (who didn't pass very well when we met in October): 'Of https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/12/radical-feminist-warned-refer-transgender-defendant-assault/ -"yeah in public we say 'cis women' but tran to tran we just say 'women,' we‘re not insane lol" -no transsexual is like 'from a young age all i ever wanted was to be.. cis' -https://twitter.com/theorygurl/status/1062451652836446208 - https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/bhulic/i_cant_do_this_any_more_i_need_to_divorce_my/ thanks for the marketing advice! I should _definitely_ take that into account if I ever decide to put more effort into "persuading people", which sounds like something that an aspiring instrumental rationalist would care about. Perhaps unfortunately, however, I'm an aspiring epistemic rationalist: all I can do is try to communicate what I actually think and feel using clear language (and standard rhetorical techniques like sarcasm, satire, &c. that people know how to interpret even if they wouldn't be clear if someone naïvely took the words literally). If other people aren't persuaded by this ... maybe they _shouldn't_ be! Maybe I can live with that! -You _can't_ optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without also optimizing against understanding Occam's razor; you _can't_ optimize for not questioning gender self-identity without also optimizing against understanding "A Human's Guide to Words." - I guess I can't argue with that, but I wish I knew what happened to my wallet https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/ray-blanchard-transgender-orthodoxy/ @@ -3139,3 +3133,45 @@ I [want credit](https://arbital.com/p/6yv/) for calling it. > It's not only a highly unethical journalism, but also a banal and boring one. Why should anyone care if someone is transgender or not? In most cases it's completely irrelevant. In particular, why should anyone be surprised if a woman in AI and EA is transgender. It's the default. https://twitter.com/OttoMller12/status/1533722820232060930 + +Israelis have things to worry about from their neighbors; I would hope that American Jews are too busy counting our money from running the entertainment and finance industries to get caught up in victimhood politics + +when Yudkowsky talks about teenage male edgelord tendencies, people complain about him being too gendery, but it seems like they're complaining about him _naming_ the behavior as male; pure simulacra + +Surrender on sports: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1536691117265080321 + +https://twitter.com/mherreshoff/status/1537427374676922369 +> Maybe there's a bunch of ways to end up with the way-more-interested-in-things-than-people trait. I imagine being handed an ill-fitting/dysphoric gender role would push one towards interested-in-things pretty hard. + +A: so my household talks about planecrash a whole fuck of a lot and we have noted that eliezer doesn't act sexist to live human beings, this is exclusively a thing in his writing +Z: I think our culture's concept of "sexism" is conflating things that are different in the territory; the So Different evopsych-sight in the writing is, in fact, compatible with not being an Evil Misogynist and treating women like people +A: I think they would by default be in tension, so if they're not in his case, I think something else might be going on +Z: I don't think I told you about how I had a drink with my NRx Twitter mutual when a visited New York, who is totally an Evil Misogynist +I would guess that me and Yudkowsky and Evil Reactionary Twitter Friend actually have broadly similar beliefs/predictions about human nature; the difference between us and Evil Reactionary Twitter Friend is mostly ideological, cultural +and basically the thing I'm trying to do with my blog is that I like our culture and I want to fight for its (renormalized) values, but it's kind of pathetic that no one can jump up a meta level and see it _as_ a culture, _as_ an ideology +as _contingent_ +as contingent but in a way that it's OK to reason about out loud, rather than being wordlessly afraid that talking will break everything + +> Lia Thomas as the anti-Rosa Parks. Least sympathetic case imaginable, single-handedly turned public opinion against the cause. +https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1538651344361246720 + +Even the reviews of Nevada don't reveal the secret!!—okay, the New Yorker one sort of does ("erotic transvestite scenarios", "liking girls just in a totally impossible way") +https://www.vulture.com/article/profile-imogen-binnie-nevada.html +https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/the-invention-of-the-trans-novel-imogen-binnie-nevada + +> it doesn't feature nonbinary characters, and a similar novel written today would require them, not least for accuracy. +(2013 was less than a decade ago!!) + +preference cascade is starting ... +https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1538541182975877120 + +[quantifying the two-type effect: +GD occupations in study 2 +gay men are at .48 (.14); straight women at .36 (.13); straight men at .68 (.12) +that's d=–1.61 between gay and straight men +a gay man only needs to be 1 standard deviation (.48-.36 = 0.12) more feminine than average to be as feminine as a straight women +whereas a straight man needs to be (.68-.36 = 0.32) 0.32/0.12=2.67 more feminine than average to be as feminine as a straight woman—that's rarer, but not impossible + +In percentile terms, 1-norm.cdf(1) = 0.15 of gay men are as feminine as a woman +whereas 1-norm.cdf(2.67) = 0.003 of straight men are +that's a likelihood ratio of 50 ... but the prior is not that far from 50:1 in the other direction! They cancel out!!]