check in, with no time to lose

I haven't been brave enough to write, and it's already past fifteen on
a Saturday. Can I make up for lost time?

I don't need to be scared. For now, I'm writing for myself, and I'll
let counsel advise me on whether to pull the trigger on
publishing. But first, I need something to show counsel.

diff --git a/content/drafts/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md b/content/drafts/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md
index 2db52df..d575b24 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md
+++ b/content/drafts/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md
@@ -508,13 +508,13 @@ But if you actually _cared_ about not deceiving your readers, you would want to
 
 "I think people are better off at the end of that," Yudkowsky writes of the consequences of agreeing-with-Stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles policies. But here I think we need a more conflict-theoretic analysis that looks at a more detailed level than "people." _Who_ is better off, specifically? 
 
-... and, I had been planning to save the Whole Dumb Story about my alienation from Yudkowsky's so-called "rationalists" for a _different_ multi-thousand-word blog post, because _this_ multi-thousand-word blog post was supposed to be narrowly scoped to _just_ exhaustively replying to Yudkowsky's February 2021 Facebook post about pronoun conventions. But in order to explain the problems with "people do _know_ they're living in a half-Stalinist environment" and "people are better off at the end of that", I may need to _briefly_ recap some of the history leading to the present discussion, which explains why _I_ didn't know and _I'm_ not better off, with the understanding that it's only a summary and I might still need to tell the long version in a separate post, if it's still necessary relative to everything else I need to get around to writing.
+... and, I had been planning to save the Whole Dumb Story about my alienation from Yudkowsky's so-called "rationalists" for a _different_ multi-thousand-word blog post, because _this_ multi-thousand-word blog post was supposed to be narrowly scoped to _just_ exhaustively replying to Yudkowsky's February 2021 Facebook post about pronoun conventions. But in order to explain the problems with "people do _know_ they're living in a half-Stalinist environment" and "people are better off at the end of that", I may need to _briefly_ recap some of the history leading to the present discussion, which explains why _I_ didn't know and _I'm_ not better off, with the understanding that it's only a summary and I might still need to tell the long version in a separate post, if it feels still necessary relative to everything else I need to get around to writing. (It's not actually a very interesting story; I just need to get it out of my system so I can stop grieving and move on with my life.)
 
 I _never_ expected to end up arguing about something so _trivial_ as the minutiae of pronoun conventions (which no one would care about if historical contingencies of the evolution of the English language hadn't made them a Schelling point and typographical attack surface for things people do care about). The conversation only ended up here after a series of derailings. At the start, I was _trying_ to say something substantive about the psychology of straight men who wish they were women.
 
 You see, back in the 'aughts when Yudkowsky was writing his Sequences, he occasionally said some things about sex differences that I often found offensive at the time, but which ended up being hugely influential on me, especially in the context of my ideological affinity towards feminism and my secret lifelong-since-puberty erotic fantasy about being magically transformed into a woman. I wrote about this at length in a previous post, ["Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to my Gender Problems"](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)].
 
-In particular, in ["Changing Emotions"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions) (and its precursor in a [2004 Extropians mailing list post](https://archive.is/En6qW)), Yudkowsky explains that despite the ease of _imagining_ the idea of "changing sex" and referring to it in a short English sentence, actually 
+In particular, in ["Changing Emotions"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions) (and its precursor in a [2004 Extropians mailing list post](https://archive.is/En6qW)), Yudkowsky explains that "changing sex" is vastly easier said than done—
 
 
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/link-on-transitions-freedom-of-form-and-the-righteous-struggle-against-nature.md b/content/drafts/link-on-transitions-freedom-of-form-and-the-righteous-struggle-against-nature.md
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index 0000000..9798f27
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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Title: Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, and the Righteous Struggle Against Nature"
+Date: 2022-02-10
+Category: other
+Tags: linkpost
+Status: draft
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/theschism/comments/si7k2c/on_transitions_freedom_of_form_and_the_righteous/

diff --git a/content/drafts/links-amy-wax-bloggingheads.md b/content/drafts/links-amy-wax-bloggingheads.md
index 5a792e6..854fa26 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/links-amy-wax-bloggingheads.md
+++ b/content/drafts/links-amy-wax-bloggingheads.md
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Category: other
 Tags: linkpost, video, Amy Wax
 Status: draft
 
-After watching a [couple of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLE67Z_YmSA) [her appearances](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iURajqpbU3E) on the Glenn Loury show and [one opposite Adam Serwer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8uEbK83BYM), is it weird if I admit that I find something about Amy Wax _incredibly attractive_? I mean on a spiritual level—as a female intellectual with _no patience_ for the Egregore. No patience!
+Having watched a [few of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLE67Z_YmSA) [her](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iURajqpbU3E) [appearances](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1vQFMxPk54) on the Glenn Loury show and [one opposite Adam Serwer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8uEbK83BYM), is it weird if I admit that I find something about Amy Wax _incredibly attractive_? I mean, on a spiritual level—as a female intellectual with _no patience_ for the Egregore. No patience!

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
index 3bfe497..042ba01 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
+++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
@@ -480,3 +480,5 @@ https://twitter.com/esyudkowsky/status/1374161729073020937
 
 3 January 2020 text from Michael to me:
 > because I want to make it very clear to you, and to encourage you to make it very clear to others [...] that you are experiencing extremely articulate and extremely by the book trauma, caused in a very canonical manner by institutional betrayal and causing silencing of a sort very similar to that which causes investigation of sex crimes to be problematic (as in the high quality current Netflix show "Unbelievable", which you all might benefit from watching)
+
+Forget it, Jake—it's the rationalist community

diff --git a/notes/critical_acclaim.md b/notes/critical_acclaim.md
index 804a956..861a624 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/critical_acclaim.md
+++ b/notes/critical_acclaim.md
@@ -111,4 +111,7 @@ https://twitter.com/RayHarwick/status/1390404433247227905
 https://twitter.com/Aurinkoinen6/status/1455143130655862786
 
 > AGP truthers publish latest 30k word essay to rapt audience of five people
-https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1489058985722318848
\ No newline at end of file
+https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1489058985722318848
+
+> some exceptions
+https://www.reddit.com/r/gendertransformation/comments/nk3nev/how_do_i_tell_the_difference_between_having_a_tf/gzhjtzx/

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index d806b56..aef2a60 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -2963,3 +2963,6 @@ https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/02/01/what-the-sex-in-the-cit
 
 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
+
+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.

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 08616c7..33c016c 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ _ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning 
 
 Queue—
+_ "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]" linkpost
 _ "Never Smile" linkpost
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 _ Happy Meal
+_ Amy Wax linkpost
 
 _ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace