M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:33:52 +0000 (15:33 -0800)]
fix busted "Terrorist Memeplexes" link (7 → 8) in "Categories"
Was that there the whole time?? Thanks to a reader for pointing this
out.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 12 Dec 2020 20:56:51 +0000 (12:56 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:17:39 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 9 Dec 2020 04:11:23 +0000 (20:11 -0800)]
okay, I think I do want to include extra rant in the coda
I was leaning towards keeping the scope limited, but now I'm leaning
back? As well for a sheep as a lamb?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 8 Dec 2020 21:34:04 +0000 (13:34 -0800)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 8 Dec 2020 04:54:59 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism" and import Tail's criticism
Happy to be working in the main idea of the "Faster Than Science" post
that never got written.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Dec 2020 19:42:13 +0000 (11:42 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Dec 2020 04:57:16 +0000 (20:57 -0800)]
Sunday "Sexual Dimorphism" drafting 2: "Failed Utopia #4-2" & coda story
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Dec 2020 01:09:39 +0000 (17:09 -0800)]
Sunday "Sexual Dimorphism" drafting 1: entanglement, transition doubts
It's only early evening; let's do another solid session of drafting
before tonight's Advent of Code puzzle release!! I really want to just
be finished with this!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Dec 2020 20:19:29 +0000 (12:19 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Dec 2020 01:57:34 +0000 (17:57 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": ELTE and the limits of medicine, lean low scope
As you can see from the shoveling, I'm not sure how long I want to
make the coda—this is already a long post, so maybe it shouldn't be
exhaustive on threats to the great common task, but just focus on the
case that I'm not alone, and I shouldn't be alone.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 5 Dec 2020 17:59:19 +0000 (09:59 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:40:46 +0000 (23:40 -0800)]
poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 3 Dec 2020 07:30:20 +0000 (23:30 -0800)]
poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Dec 2020 04:52:32 +0000 (20:52 -0800)]
import three paragraphs about dark side epistemology
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Dec 2020 04:52:07 +0000 (20:52 -0800)]
nibbling at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:32:37 +0000 (14:32 -0800)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Dec 2020 20:14:43 +0000 (12:14 -0800)]
shovel some notes/scraps between files
Now that I don't have to do ragequit post set to Sara Bareilles, I
might want to extract some of the points that were written for that,
into the present endeavor
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Dec 2020 19:48:06 +0000 (11:48 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:12:54 +0000 (23:12 -0800)]
filling in Sexual Dimorphism
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:20:46 +0000 (19:20 -0800)]
backport cosplay images
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:43:44 +0000 (14:43 -0800)]
back-anchors ("Changing Emotions" links (5x), and Murray pt. II)
I'm a little worried about whether readers actually understand this
"linking to a hidden anchor in an arbitrary paragraph in the middle of
a post" technique? (If you just see the new tab of the old post
scrolled halfway down, it may not be obvious which part I'm trying to
direct you to without a section header to make it clearer.) But it
still seems better than not-doing it? I love my links.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:16:06 +0000 (16:16 -0800)]
working on filling in "Sexual Dimorphism"
Is this thought-dumping bad writing? How am I going to edit this
monster? And yet doesn't it, despite everything, beat the alternative?
(The blog is over four years old; at least I'm getting things said
that I somehow didn't get around to in four years.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:24:05 +0000 (13:24 -0800)]
eh, just throw the Ranma image on the About page
I've had this sitting in the images directory forever—might as
well. (I'm not even particularly familiar with the manga, which I only
read a few borrowed books of in middle school! But—it's famous enough
to be a touchstone, to take part of my pen name from.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:13:15 +0000 (00:13 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:11:32 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" day-after-Thanksgiving TODO pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 03:48:27 +0000 (19:48 -0800)]
update old "Changing Emotions" links to nu-LessWrong (LW 2)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:35:38 +0000 (19:35 -0800)]
prep and import scraps for T.K.o.t.M.
Nothing to see here, mostly just importing some prose from a previous
unpublished research project that can be reused
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:52:08 +0000 (12:52 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:36:25 +0000 (22:36 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:33:36 +0000 (22:33 -0800)]
pick up that dropped factor of 2
The original calculation was comparing cis women to trans people in
general, but I want to be comparing cis women to trans women.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:12:46 +0000 (22:12 -0800)]
wrap up and publish "Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:45:40 +0000 (12:45 -0800)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" to closing line (with many gaps)
Okay, I figured out where and how I want to close this off! I still
have a lot of writing to do to fill in all those TODO-labeled gaps,
and a lot of editing after that, but this is a nice
skeleton—especially the pelvis.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:55:59 +0000 (10:55 -0800)]
check in—with hope
It looks like I have three more straightforward minor posts to fit in
the pipeline before "Sexual Dimorphism": the 2020 Haskell survey data
is up, the /r/DrWillPowers threads shouldn't be that hard to
summarize, and I know why my first draft of "Crossing the Line" is
floppy. After "Sexual Dimorphism", I can turn to the finalization of
my philosophy-of-language thesis on the robot-cult blog, and then I'll
finally be free (or free to switch back to the gender war with "Trans
Kids on the Margin")
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:25:43 +0000 (22:25 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:40:54 +0000 (17:40 -0800)]
drafted: "Crossing the Line"
What started out just being a paper-review got queered with riffing
off Julia Serano and the best song from the Tangled sequel series?
This is me.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 21 Nov 2020 09:08:11 +0000 (01:08 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Nov 2020 05:13:05 +0000 (21:13 -0800)]
social media scrap notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:33:17 +0000 (12:33 -0800)]
nibble at "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"; cache rhetoric
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:30:22 +0000 (23:30 -0800)]
later Tuesday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism", and check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:18:44 +0000 (23:18 -0800)]
schedule Nixon quotepost, "Interlude XX", and "The Feeling Is Mutual"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:35:12 +0000 (12:35 -0800)]
earlier Tuesday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
I really want to finish this piece! It sets down in words so many
things I haven't been writing about quickly enough for four years!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:48:37 +0000 (18:48 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 15 Nov 2020 07:32:53 +0000 (23:32 -0800)]
Saturday haul
This was not a good writing day. Social media addiction is really bad
for me and I need to be better at setting limits.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:15:52 +0000 (14:15 -0800)]
check in: towards a November (bottom half) blog activity burst?
Activity on The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought is
sometimes "bursty", as I devote attention to the blog (in weeks that
my writing attention isn't focused on Less Wrong), as in April 2020
and December 2019. Maybe November 2019 will be another one of those,
capped by "Sexual Dimorphism" (if I can buckle down and finish it)?
Sometimes the motivation to backlink something from a big post
inspires small posts; for example, the reason I bothered to blog my
old stray thought about the reverse Murray rule is because I thought
it would be funny to backlink it from my Human Diversity review. The
Haskell survey data is similar: I left a Reddit comment about the 2018
survey
(https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/9yaj1w/2018_state_of_haskell_survey_results/ebm849g/),
but I want a proper post specifically for the "These days, most of the
women" line in "Sexual Dimorphism". The Sapir–Whorf paper is cool and
on-theme but also specifically would make a good backlink in the
"Harms From Misleading Training Data" effortpost on my horizon.
But my audience isn't going to be reading this Git commit message;
they're going to be reading the blog. Let's go! Already.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:11:38 +0000 (14:11 -0800)]
include "link" in "Wells for Boys" linkpost slug
Ordinarily I would go to great lengths to avoid breaking links by
changing slugs without a redirect solution, but who links to a filler
linkpost? Nobody! Nobody in the whole blogosphere has linked to this!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:07:56 +0000 (10:07 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:56:16 +0000 (23:56 -0800)]
Armistice Day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:38:31 +0000 (23:38 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:28:16 +0000 (23:28 -0800)]
drafting "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Nov 2020 23:56:11 +0000 (15:56 -0800)]
"gender dysphoria" is fake and deserves scare quotes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:42:04 +0000 (14:42 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:20:09 +0000 (12:20 -0800)]
add Best-Of selection to About page
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:22:27 +0000 (09:22 -0800)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:49:42 +0000 (22:49 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" Monday evening poke
Bluebird website is really bad for me—I want to finish this
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 20:22:16 +0000 (12:22 -0800)]
Monday morning drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 07:01:11 +0000 (23:01 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 07:00:51 +0000 (23:00 -0800)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 05:51:16 +0000 (21:51 -0800)]
pronoun glitch (on person! not gender! so it's OK)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 04:26:10 +0000 (20:26 -0800)]
finish "The Feeling Is Mutual"
(I think this can basically be published whenever, but I'm not
thinking about scheduling now, I need to write "Sexual Dimorphism" in
the dying hours of this tragic Sunday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:57:52 +0000 (23:57 -0800)]
word choices; the badge trim refers to the social construct
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:48:10 +0000 (23:48 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:44:15 +0000 (23:44 -0800)]
"Two Political Short Stories"
The first is from Facebook this time four years ago (thanks to the "On
This Day" notification feature!)—verbatim except with the replacement
of "Russian" for "Chinese". (At the time, we knew that Orange Man Bad,
but we didn't know that he was Putin's lapdog.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 6 Nov 2020 06:54:24 +0000 (22:54 -0800)]
two-types anchor in "... To Make Predictions"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 06:38:32 +0000 (23:38 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 06:37:10 +0000 (23:37 -0700)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 06:00:47 +0000 (23:00 -0700)]
filler buffer: "Interlude XX"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:19:20 +0000 (14:19 -0700)]
can WNBA players take down a U.S. senator??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Oct 2020 06:52:06 +0000 (23:52 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:22:21 +0000 (15:22 -0700)]
nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Oct 2020 20:26:59 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Oct 2020 06:48:43 +0000 (23:48 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Oct 2020 06:44:01 +0000 (23:44 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": explaining high-dimensionality, again
(This is one of my standard points that I'm pretty practiced at
explaining—should I regret it being in the middle of a long post,
rather than making it an individually linkable standalone (like I did
for just the math part)?)
I'm pleased with the height → faces → FaceApp → morphic-adaptation
flow.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:07:52 +0000 (14:07 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences": lead-in to mapping and coda
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:11:52 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": category of personal identity, into conclusion
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:52:04 +0000 (10:52 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": Sorites identity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:51:30 +0000 (09:51 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:29:27 +0000 (22:29 -0700)]
Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:28:59 +0000 (22:28 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:40:39 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:40:29 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 25 Oct 2020 03:51:06 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:01:51 +0000 (09:01 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:31:54 +0000 (11:31 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": morphic adaption unit specifications
It's always hard to start writing, and it's especially hard to start
writing about this—but it's so important. To me.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:46:38 +0000 (10:46 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:14:23 +0000 (08:14 -0700)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 04:44:19 +0000 (21:44 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:08:13 +0000 (10:08 -0700)]
some sketching out TODO skeleton for "Sexual Dimorphism"
I need to do my dayjob, but it would really be nice to make a push to
finish this post soon!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:40:11 +0000 (09:40 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:34:44 +0000 (17:34 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Oct 2020 20:26:56 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:03:37 +0000 (10:03 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 9 Oct 2020 02:57:49 +0000 (19:57 -0700)]
explain comment syntax options
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 7 Oct 2020 18:49:40 +0000 (11:49 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Oct 2020 06:03:49 +0000 (23:03 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Oct 2020 07:54:45 +0000 (00:54 -0700)]
drafting "Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Oct 2020 04:46:18 +0000 (21:46 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Sep 2020 20:00:37 +0000 (13:00 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:42:17 +0000 (19:42 -0700)]
self-deception hash-anchor in "Human Diversity" review