check in

diff --git a/content/2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md b/content/2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md
index d49c7dc0d4c1e298a48426f308574c531f667d62..5bfc636a53de865559a3fbc393219c3ee8b52cdb 100644 (file)
--- a/content/2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md
+++ b/content/2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Title: From What I've Tasted of Desire
 Date: 2017-01-24 22:48
 Category: commentary
-Tags: bullet-biting
+Tags: bullet-biting, my robot cult
 
 > _Oh, we have to get this right  
 > Yes, we have to make them see_  

diff --git a/content/2019/the-source-of-our-power.md b/content/2019/the-source-of-our-power.md
index 487e05efafd7e30dcb2e96384397202003f516e8..813891f19806ba4f1095c9c3ec66e9996e84d311 100644 (file)
--- a/content/2019/the-source-of-our-power.md
+++ b/content/2019/the-source-of-our-power.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Title: The Source of Our Power
 Date: 2019-07-02 05:00
-Tags: discourse
+Tags: discourse, my robot cult
 Category: other
 
 "I really don't think you're rationally considering how to maximize your contribution to rationality pedagogy and deciding it runs through freaking out about transgender and maybe abandoning the movement in disgust."

diff --git a/content/drafts/a-love-that-is-out-of-anyones-control.md b/content/drafts/a-love-that-is-out-of-anyones-control.md
index 04155cf02fc41443c3ca6c78ec67d5ba26474a9c..c82faa787ec63ddc9274f70237091465154eb515 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/a-love-that-is-out-of-anyones-control.md
+++ b/content/drafts/a-love-that-is-out-of-anyones-control.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Status: draft
 >
 > —_Steven Universe_, "Lion 3: Straight to Video"
 
-I cosplayed [Rose Quartz]() at FanimeCon this year! It was fun, I think! I guess?
+I cosplayed [Rose Quartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters#Rose_Quartz) at FanimeCon this year! It was fun, I think! I guess?
 
 I'm not really sure what other people get out of conventions. For me, it's my one
 
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ I'm not really sure what other people get out of conventions. For me, it's my on
 
 
 (previously: as Ens. Silvia Tilly at San Francisco Comic-Con 2018, as _Equestria Girls_ Twilight Sparkle at BABSCon 2018, [as Korra at San Francisco Comic-Con 2017](/2017/Oct/a-leaf-in-the-crosswind/), [as Pearl at FanimeCon 2017](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/gems-will-be-gems/), as [Lt. Jadzia Dax (circa 2369) at the _Star Trek_ 50 Year Mission Tour San Francisco 2016](/2016/Dec/joined/), [as Pearl as San Francsico Comic-Con 2016](/2016/Sep/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/))
+
+Raven is cosplayed more than any other Teen Titan
\ No newline at end of file

diff --git a/content/drafts/on-the-argumentative-form-super-proton-things-tend-to-come-in-varieties.md b/content/drafts/on-the-argumentative-form-super-proton-things-tend-to-come-in-varieties.md
index 1df55e87f2cf9738b246830c29e5f5000234fea4..a34cb941ae5d7ace90fbe361b972f642f89832bc 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/on-the-argumentative-form-super-proton-things-tend-to-come-in-varieties.md
+++ b/content/drafts/on-the-argumentative-form-super-proton-things-tend-to-come-in-varieties.md
@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@ Eliezer Yudkowsky Tweets, linking to [a _Quillete_ interview with Lisa Littman](
 
 > [Everything more complicated than](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1108277090577600512) protons tends to come in varieties. Hydrogen, for example, has isotopes. Gender dysphoria involves more than one proton and will probably have varieties.
 
-> [To be clear, I don't](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1108280619014905857) know much about gender dysphoria. There's an allegation that people are reluctant to speciate more than one kind of gender dysphoria. To the extent that’s not a strawman, I would say only in a generic way that GD seems liable to have more than one species.
+> [To be clear, I don't](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1108280619014905857) know much about gender dysphoria. There's an allegation that people are reluctant to speciate more than one kind of gender dysphoria. To the extent that's not a strawman, I would say only in a generic way that GD seems liable to have more than one species.
 
-So, I actually think the moral here is wrong in a subtle but important way!
+So, I actually think the moral here is wrong! (_Subtly_ wrong, in a way that took me a day to notice.)
 
 TODO: artificulate that I'm making a "zero-one-infinity" argument (surprsing that Google searches on this refer to a programming strat, I thought it was a math thing—compare)
 
 You know, I thought about it some more, and I think that what I thought was a mere nitpick is actually pointing towards a more substantive criticism! It's true that ["[i]n the real world, nothing above the level of [protons] repeats itself exactly."](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/82eMd5KLiJ5Z6rTrr/superexponential-conceptspace-and-simple-words) But when we say that a psychological or medical diagnosis that "comes in varieties," I think we are talking about distinct taxa/clusters, not the mere existence of variation due to things not being identical down to the atomic scale; otherwise, the observation that something "comes in varieties" would be trivial. And [Occam's razor/minimum-message-length](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f4txACqDWithRi7hs/occam-s-razor) says we shouldn't postulate [more explanatory entities](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Atu4teGvob5vKvEAF/decoherence-is-simple) (such as categories) unless they can [pay rent](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A/making-beliefs-pay-rent-in-anticipated-experiences) in better predictions.
 
 So isn't "Gender dysphoria involves more than one proton[; therefore, it] will probably have varieties" a [fake explanation](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fysgqk4CjAwhBgNYT/fake-explanations)? The phrase "gender dysphoria" was worth inventing as a shorter code for the not-vanishingly-rare observation of "humans wanting to change sex", but unless and until you have specific observations indicating that there are different ways dysphoria can come about, you shouldn't posit that there are "probably" multiple varieties, because in a "nearby" possible Everett branch where human evolution happened slightly differently, there probably aren't. (Brain-intersex conditions have a kind of a priori plausibility to them, but whatever weird quirk leads to autogynephilia probably wouldn't happen with every roll of the evolutionary dice if you rewound far enough, and the memeplex driving Littman's ROGD observations was invented recently.) So I think a better moral than "Things larger than protons will probably have varieties" would be "Beware [fallacies of compression](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y5MxoeacRKKM3KQth/fallacies-of-compression)."
+
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WQFioaudEH8R7fyhm/local-validity-as-a-key-to-sanity-and-civilization

diff --git a/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md b/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md
index 271461e985317e0dfd26e58be1a9f540036a0fac..dc7c17b6eb5853c97bdc9cf5da206b57fccdb09c 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md
+++ b/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Smart people in the dominant coalition have always been _very_ good at maintaini
 
 Thus, trans women are women, where by 'women' I mean people who identify as women. Appeals to conceptual parsimony ("Yes, you _could_ use language that way, but that makes it [more expensive to express](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries) [these-and-such useful real-world probabilistic inferences](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/)—") don't work on utilitarians who _explicitly_ reject parsimony in favor of "utility," where utility is estimated by back-of-the-envelope calculations that seem like they [ought to be better than nothing](https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics/), but which in practice have so many degrees of freedom that the answer is almost entirely determined by the [perceived need to appease](http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes/) whichever [utility monster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster) has made itself most politically salient to the one performing the calculation.
 
-If you can't win the argument (because the motte is genuinely a great motte) and therefore gain status by appealing to reality, and our minds are [better at tracking status than reality](TODO: Robin Hanson-like linky), then eventually dissidents either accept the narrative or destroy themselves.
+If you can't win the argument (because the motte is genuinely a great motte) and therefore gain status by appealing to reality, and our minds are better at [tracking](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/01/advice-isnt-about-info.html) [status](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/12/forged-by-status.html) than [reality](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/06/doing-good-being-good.html), then eventually dissidents either accept [the narrative](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/resisting-the-narrative/) or destroy themselves.
 
 [Autogynephilic males](http://www.annelawrence.com/autogynephilia_&_MtF_typology.html) are better at large-scale coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general (as evidenced by [the patriarchy](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/patriarchy-is-the-problem/)), so once a political conflict arose between AGPs' right to choose their "gender", and women's/lesbians' right to [have a goddamned _word_](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/) to describe themselves, it was a _fait accompli_ that the group sampled from the male region in psychological configuration space would win: male psychology is [_designed_ to win costly intergroup conflicts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260849/). And in winning, they _create their own reality_.
 
@@ -41,3 +41,6 @@ left to just study it. Judiciously. As I do.
 https://www.gwern.net/docs/philo/2012-sistery-tryingtoseethrough.html  
 https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-thing-and-the-symbolic-representation-of-the-thing/  
 http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AqbWna2S85pFTsHH4/the-intelligent-social-web
+https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15
+https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/weaponized-sacredness/
+https://status451.com/2018/07/01/the-importance-of-having-your-pain-be-legible/

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 85b52f80d0aa2f363888a7655d82435c525fb405..daca3ecc4125202cd7c0036e277fd3bd0732e845 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -1,23 +1,28 @@
-_ "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
-✓ 2 July The Source of Our Power
-_ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
-_ The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned 
+(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like rambling. More Diary-like rambling tomorrow. If you're here for the insight porn, come back Wednesday. If you're here for the Actual Philosophy, come back Thursday and Friday.)
+
+_ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
+_ Tue: Social Strategy Notes
+_ Wed: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+_ Thu: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
+_ Fri: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
+
+_ Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
+
+
+
 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
 _ How Dumb Do You Think We Are?
 
-"I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
-Social Strategy Notes
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
 
 
 
-
 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
-commentary on "Blegg Mode" (in response to Kosoy's objection)
+ (in response to Kosoy's objection)
+
 
-Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
 Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time)
 Research Question: Complicity

diff --git a/notes/tweet_pad.txt b/notes/tweet_pad.txt
index 8abf553b9fe83be3dc75fd734cf82272d074c3f2..e2502c51af63d998187bf246f2d5058b0eca5cc5 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/tweet_pad.txt
+++ b/notes/tweet_pad.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ this'll be great for my future tantrum: https://twitter.com/CrassyTheo/status/11
 
 AGP is well-described: https://twitter.com/will_malone/status/1121428353074880513
 
+dialogue with Grey: https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1138257464795602944
+
 -----
 
 Prewritten thread for if they do the stickers again this year—