From: Zack M. Davis Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 16:17:23 +0000 (-0700) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=67a2997b95d15c874a8aadee5095157459d6ad78;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/content/drafts/fake-deeply.md b/content/drafts/fake-deeply.md index d2e9514..6b2a09c 100644 --- a/content/drafts/fake-deeply.md +++ b/content/drafts/fake-deeply.md @@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ How did he think she should explain this? There was, actually, a perfectly ordin "Actually, I'd like to know more about Multigen—and I'll likely have more questions after I talk to the Code Assistant team. Can I pick a time on your calendar next week?" It was Friday. -"Sure. Talk to you then—if we humans are still alive, right?" Jake said, hoping that a touch of humor would be found endearing—and only realizing in the moment after he said it what a terrible play it was; Chloë was likely to take it as mockery. +"Sure. Talk to you then—if we humans are still alive, right?" Jake said, Jake said, hoping to add a touch of humor, and only realizing in the moment after he said it what a terrible play it was; Chloë was more likely to take it as mockery than find it endearing. -"I hope so," she said solemnly, and the call ended. +"I hope so," she said solemnly, and hung up. _Shit!_ How could he have been so foolish? It had been a specialist's blindness. He worked on Multigen. He knew that Multigen logged requests, and that people on his team occasionally had reason to grep those logs. He didn't want anyone knowing what he was asking Multigen to do. So he had arranged for his requests to not appear in Multigen's logs, thinking that was enough—or rather, without thinking about whether or not that was enough. @@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ _Of course_ it wasn't enough! He hadn't considered that Multigen would sit behin It got worse. When the Multigen web interface supplied the user's requested media, that data had to live somewhere. The _videos themselves_ would still be on Magma's object storage cluster! How could that have seemed like an acceptable risk? Jake struggled to recall what he had been thinking at the time. Had he been too horny to even consider it? -No. It had seemed safe at the time because videos weren't greppable. They would be saved in object storage under uninformative file names based on the timestamp and a random UUID. +No. It had seemed safe at the time because videos weren't greppable. They would be saved in object storage under uninformative file names based on the timestamp and a random UUID. The probability of someone snooping around the raw object files and just happening to watch the videos had seemed sufficiently low as to be worth the risk. (Although, _ex ante_, he would have assigned a similarly low probability to someone catching a discrepancy between Multigen's logs and some other unanticipated log, which had just happened, suggesting that his personal sense of what was probable was miscalibrated.) + +But now that Chloë was investigating the bell character bug, it was only a matter of time. [TODO— * Jake is very nervous; he thought deleting the Multigen logs would be enough (the videos are also stored in object storage, but there's no particular reason to expect a human to be combing through the raw files ... but they will, if there's an investigation diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md index b31cd60..a980f0d 100644 --- a/notes/memoir-sections.md +++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md @@ -2788,3 +2788,5 @@ Scott on puberty blockers, dreadful: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highl https://jdpressman.com/2023/08/28/agi-ruin-and-the-road-to-iconoclasm.html +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould +> there comes a point in self-deception where it becomes morally indistinguishable from lying. Consistently self-serving scientific "error", in the face of repeated correction and without informing others of the criticism, blends over into scientific fraud. diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index a5f72cc..636e02c 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -3331,3 +3331,7 @@ https://www.themotte.org/post/640/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/132334?contex > The most obvious way to fulfil this desire isn't "become a woman", but to own a woman [...] And if "owning" a woman is too unthinkable, you might come up with creative solutions. https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/men-consume-relationships-women-produce + + +https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/escalating-signals-cut-fertility +> and more respect young adults who shape themselves alone, and then once they’ve achieved more distinctive personal styles and interests, search among vast numbers of potential partners for the few who most closely match what they have become diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 66736c3..d1f8a0e 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +_ Fake Deeply + _ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress @@ -9,7 +11,6 @@ _ Standing Under the Same Sky (April 2021–December 2022) Minor— -_ Fake Deeply _ horror of gender _ subspace _ newer Haskell surveys?