From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:37:52 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Sunday memoir confrontation: review emails through 19 December 2018 X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8eb755eea14903b6b224f86054d53132c1482e8;hp=e8eb755eea14903b6b224f86054d53132c1482e8;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git Sunday memoir confrontation: review emails through 19 December 2018 There's a lot of good content in these emails! For the email-dense parts of the story, I'm thinking that an easy and high-quality way to write this memoir is to just—summarize the emails! I guess I had been thinking that this wasn't an option, because I'm not allowed to talk about Yudkowsky's responses to us because of privacy constraints? But our coordination group also had a lot of interesting "What is wrong with our thoughts" discussion; it's more interesting to be in the mode of telling the Whole Dumb Story as a story, rather being hyperfocused on brining a fraud case against Yudkowsky. (It's a story _about_ bringing a fraud case, but a story first and foremost.) Paraphrasing emails also solves a couple other writing problems. I wasn't sure how to balance between "narrating what happened" and "talking about ideas". (Theorizing about the state of "the community" needs to be part of the memoir, but it's not bound to a particular time as something that happened.) But if all the important ideas were talked about in emails, that naturally binds them to an event in the narrative. Or commentary on the Emperor Norton example—where would that fit, exactly, if it's a little too chunky for my initial discussion of the categories issue? It fits where I told Scott about it. I also don't like my current characterization of the "Hill of Meaning" thread: partially because my anger at Yudkowsky's dishonesty is leaking through in an anachronistic way, and partially because I'm so sick of explaining this over and over again that I can't even muster up the energy for precise criticism. I think if I rewrite that whole section based on my January 2019 re-salvo email, it'll be much better. ---