M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Jun 2023 23:18:24 +0000 (16:18 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Jun 2023 22:46:54 +0000 (15:46 -0700)]
memoir: "Roberta" crisis to § end
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Jun 2023 19:38:32 +0000 (12:38 -0700)]
memoir: editing sweep ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Jun 2023 01:35:06 +0000 (18:35 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Jun 2023 01:34:40 +0000 (18:34 -0700)]
memoir: editing sweep ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Jun 2023 00:37:21 +0000 (17:37 -0700)]
memoir: "Roberta" crisis email series
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Jun 2023 01:17:22 +0000 (18:17 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 1 Jun 2023 20:02:13 +0000 (13:02 -0700)]
memoir: "People" ending §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 31 May 2023 22:27:03 +0000 (15:27 -0700)]
memoir: bullet outline for "Roberta" crisis
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 31 May 2023 20:55:57 +0000 (13:55 -0700)]
memoir: editing sweep ...
"I have had the strength to live through it; I shall have the strength
to write it down."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 31 May 2023 00:51:30 +0000 (17:51 -0700)]
memoir: early editing sweep, and remembering why we're here
I had been feeling bleh about the project, even though I'm so close to
being able to ship pt.s 1–3: I've been resisting even outlining the
parts about being insane, because it hurts to look at. But reading
over the first part and making line edits, I'm reminded that this is
good stuff! I want to ship this as soon as possible!
If I'm feeling trepidatious ("You mean trepidations, the noun?" "No.")
about the parts that are about psychosis rather than about
autogynephilia, that's all the more reason to work hard to make those
publishable, rather than feeling afraid and gross about it, and
continuing to waste my short life on not-writing and
not-having-written!
(There's an obvious third alternative of just cutting the parts that I
feel doubts about, but I think the psychosis is actually part of the
story, not something I can skip or gloss over in a paragraph. I might
very well want to cut down some of the thousands of words I've
written, if it turns out that I don't like them and they're not as
relevant to the my grand theses about Society. But I need to at least
try to tell the story about being crazy first, before I cut it down
and scale it back.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 May 2023 22:57:01 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
memoir: infovism email
I was imagining including some of the NRxy language about delusional
activists, but that can be folded in elsewhere rather than cluttering
up this summary.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 May 2023 14:06:41 +0000 (07:06 -0700)]
a re-nym
Normal Jewish name, like the protagonist of Crazy Ex
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 May 2023 14:03:21 +0000 (07:03 -0700)]
a re-nym
Someone in Tail's sexology circle already uses "Trent" as a pseudonym;
that's too confusing even if he didn't meant the notability threshold
for this Whole Dumb Story.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 May 2023 04:31:57 +0000 (21:31 -0700)]
memoir: credit-assignment, famous people answer mail
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 May 2023 03:50:04 +0000 (20:50 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 May 2023 04:59:24 +0000 (21:59 -0700)]
memoir: filling March 2017
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 May 2023 21:07:54 +0000 (14:07 -0700)]
check in net tasks
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 May 2023 04:34:22 +0000 (21:34 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 26 May 2023 02:13:43 +0000 (19:13 -0700)]
memoir: Vassar on censorship; Heinlein vs. Serano
The Heinlein tidbit is definitely worth mentioning somewhere (I hadn't
previously blogged it, and if this is where it shows up in my
correspondence history, I guess this is where it shows up in the
memoir and therefore the blog), but I wasn't sure whether it was worth
the wordcount to summarize the whole thread, or if I should gloss it
over with "during a conversation about Milo"—but I'm actually feeling
good about this use of wordcount? It's giving the audience a taste of
who Vassar is (which I can't summarize).
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 24 May 2023 22:48:27 +0000 (15:48 -0700)]
memoir: outlining March 2017
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 24 May 2023 02:13:24 +0000 (19:13 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 24 May 2023 02:12:45 +0000 (19:12 -0700)]
memoir: Vassar discourse
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 23 May 2023 04:38:32 +0000 (21:38 -0700)]
memoir editing sweep ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 23 May 2023 03:57:43 +0000 (20:57 -0700)]
memoir: Intensive Outpatient Program, intensive Michael Vassar
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 May 2023 15:54:18 +0000 (08:54 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 17 May 2023 04:20:42 +0000 (21:20 -0700)]
check in Tuesday
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 16 May 2023 06:35:53 +0000 (23:35 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 16 May 2023 06:34:25 +0000 (23:34 -0700)]
memoir: "Dangerous Idea" cliffhanger
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 15 May 2023 22:43:19 +0000 (15:43 -0700)]
memoir: remaining 5150 scene scraps
There'll be some editing/rearranging to make this into a coherent
section, but here's the prose of things I remember.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 15 May 2023 05:07:24 +0000 (22:07 -0700)]
poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 May 2023 23:27:56 +0000 (16:27 -0700)]
memoir: quick recap intro to "People ... Rocks"
Turning out wordcount isn't hard when you already basically know what
to say. And I'm not doing novel philosophy (where the hard part is
figuring out what to say) in this section of the project: I'm writing
about my life, where I surely already know basically what to say,
because I know what happened.
Finishing up this post should be fast! If it's not fast, it's because
of some latent emotion of shame, a refusal-to-look at painful
memories. But I should be over that now.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 May 2023 22:24:06 +0000 (15:24 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 May 2023 00:30:41 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
memoir: read some 2017 email and orient to milestone
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 12 May 2023 05:35:38 +0000 (22:35 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 12 May 2023 05:35:06 +0000 (22:35 -0700)]
memoir: push on 5150 scenes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 11 May 2023 04:45:45 +0000 (21:45 -0700)]
memoir poke
I finished drafting my Less Wrong post about Bayes nets (to wash the
drama out of my mouth), so it's back to normalcy tomorrow!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 9 May 2023 04:59:53 +0000 (21:59 -0700)]
a re-nym
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 May 2023 04:09:39 +0000 (21:09 -0700)]
increase recent-comments count
Tail specifically asked for this, but I agree.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 May 2023 03:59:57 +0000 (20:59 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 May 2023 03:33:14 +0000 (20:33 -0700)]
memoir: compile Somni bullets to prose
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 May 2023 02:55:25 +0000 (19:55 -0700)]
memoir: more 5150 scenes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 5 May 2023 04:10:13 +0000 (21:10 -0700)]
memoir: 5150 scenes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 4 May 2023 01:44:15 +0000 (18:44 -0700)]
memoir: 5150
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 3 May 2023 18:27:11 +0000 (11:27 -0700)]
memoir: more pseudonyming; whom
Still need to figure out how to handle the children's names; I mostly
only want to mention them because of their interaction with the Blume
Family Cycle book titles, but I don't think my quoted-pseudonym
suggestion interacts well with titles ...?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 3 May 2023 17:43:58 +0000 (10:43 -0700)]
memoir: name "Trent"
I think "secret posse member" was a holdover from when the scope of
this project was narrower, and I hadn't given other recurring private
individuals (like "Noreen" or "Wilhelm") pseudonyms.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 3 May 2023 17:26:56 +0000 (10:26 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 1 May 2023 22:43:23 +0000 (15:43 -0700)]
memoir: stub out a pt. 8?!—this is retarded
The story was supposed to end with the Eliezerfic fight!
Even as the early 2023 moderation slapfight started escalating, I had
thought it was out-of-scope for the memoir—I was just going to say, "I
got into another slapfight about me being un-collaborative, which is
not interesting enough to summarize." But the persecution of Said is
significant enough that it becomes part of the story, and actually
throws stuff from back in "If Clarity" into new light: previously,
Said only merited one brief mention (in the Vanessa slapfight; I
wasn't even going to mention his role in the Ruby slapfight), and I
was intending to self-censor a bit in order to not attack Ruby and Ray
(who don't seem like "public figures" who are fair game for attack the
way that Yudkowsky and Alexander are). Now, Said's role looks much
more significant in retrospect, Ruby and Ray's psychology seems
important (rather than censorable), there are parallels to explore
between Said's scapegoating and Michael's ... all in all, I'm feeling
that I don't want to publish "If Clarity" onwards until the moderation
fight is resolved—but that's 25 July at the earliest!
In light of this development, I think I want to polish and publish
just pt. 1–3 (I guess I'm dropping the numbering scheme where "Sexual
Dimorphism" was pt. 1?), "Blanchard's Dangerous Idea" to "Hill of
Validity", and get it out in June—which doesn't mean abandoning the
other parts of the ms., but does mean dropping them from my immediate
publishing target (while the Said situation is still unresolved and I
still have active bad feelings about it).
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Apr 2023 16:38:55 +0000 (09:38 -0700)]
check in (clean slate for a monastic May)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Apr 2023 01:07:57 +0000 (18:07 -0700)]
publish Johnny the Walrus review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Apr 2023 02:02:14 +0000 (19:02 -0700)]
derailed (called off to war)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:51:35 +0000 (15:51 -0700)]
memoir: bullet points about my question to Somni
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Apr 2023 21:59:10 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
memoir: "Free Speech and Triskadekaphobic Calculators"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Apr 2023 06:22:53 +0000 (23:22 -0700)]
poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 15 Apr 2023 06:16:03 +0000 (23:16 -0700)]
net tasks
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:10:43 +0000 (15:10 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:04:54 +0000 (21:04 -0700)]
memoir: December 2019 blogging spree
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:41:12 +0000 (13:41 -0700)]
memoir: poke at Eliezerfic fight conclusion
You'd think mere summarization work would be easy, but somehow it's
tough to figure out exactly which parts of the discussion are
"important", which I want to summarize ... well, I'll come back to
this.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:13:36 +0000 (23:13 -0700)]
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I think doing some quick outlining from memory to meet my daily
wordcount goal is OK. (The outlining is genuinely somewhat useful, and
it's not even a bad incentive, because the words "already there" from
the outline are counting "against" future days' wordcount goals.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:13:13 +0000 (23:13 -0700)]
memoir: more bluebook grading
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:52:41 +0000 (12:52 -0700)]
memoir: yank out a new pt. 3?!?
"Dangerous Idea" was getting long, and it has a very natural cutpoint
(starting HRT/promising not to yell under my own name) ... so, I guess
I'll use the cutpoint (now that I've thought of a title)?
"If Clarity" is also long, but I'd really rather not split it, because
I don't think it has such a natural cutpoint (and making this Whole
Dumb Story more than 7 parts would be ridiculous). If I can keep it
under 30K, I think that'll be fine.
(Or maybe "It does not, actually, have a happy ending" in December
2019 is the natural cutpoint, and then next post would be relatively
short, but not too short, because it covers both "Trans Kids on the
Margin" (early 2020) and the "Lenore" disaster (late 2020)? Okay,
maybe we'll do 8 parts. Don't worry about it now.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 11 Apr 2023 04:15:34 +0000 (21:15 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 10 Apr 2023 21:52:13 +0000 (14:52 -0700)]
memoir: translate most of 17 Feb. bullets to prose; psych ward bullets
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Apr 2023 03:52:57 +0000 (20:52 -0700)]
poke at Eliezerfic tail
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Apr 2023 02:26:37 +0000 (19:26 -0700)]
yank out a new pt. 7?!?
Okay, maybe we will go to seven parts (eight, counting "Sexual
Dimorphism")?
The Planecrash analysis was so long that it deserves to be mostly its
own post (the file broke 30K words), which can also include the
epilogue/conclusion. And, if I'm shooting for ~18K word posts rather
than ~30K word posts, it's likely that pt. 2 will undergo a similar
split ("Blanchardian awakening" vs. "going crazy" is a very natural
break). But then "If Clarity" is still long ... I don't think I want
to go to eight parts if I can avoid it.
Or is it crazy that the Eliezerfic fight gets its own post?! Surely
it's not that important a part of the story?!
I don't know. After I have a gapless draft, I should hire a
professional editor. But to do that—I need a gapless draft.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Apr 2023 02:07:16 +0000 (19:07 -0700)]
memoir: the graded bluebook; outline Eliezerfic conclusion
Looking at it now, there's a lot of stuff in the Lintamande derail
that I don't want to bother summarizing; it's just not
interesting. Getting "Biological Sex Actually Exists" on the record
was interesting; me giving up is interesting; the minutiæ of how she
interpreted the post, and how I wish I had taken a different
angle—maybe merits a sentence?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 8 Apr 2023 02:43:35 +0000 (19:43 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 8 Apr 2023 02:40:02 +0000 (19:40 -0700)]
memoir: don't want it to be a bad trip
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:03:40 +0000 (11:03 -0700)]
memoir schedule planning/fantasizing
Thinking about wordcounts is so dross; I have a story to tell; there's
no escaping it; let's just get this done this month; it's still early;
it's not—over.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Apr 2023 04:03:34 +0000 (21:03 -0700)]
memoir: off the rails
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 6 Apr 2023 17:27:08 +0000 (10:27 -0700)]
memoir: NRx education on women
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 5 Apr 2023 20:16:02 +0000 (13:16 -0700)]
memoir: the model clicked
A lot of the post is good enough to reproduce almost-verbatim, but I
don't want to go full verbatim and put it in a blockquote, because I
don't like the ALLCAPS yelling, and I never explained the "causality
goes the other way" slogan. (I think I meant, politics mostly creates
LGBTQ+ identities rather than LGBTQ+ people uniting to protect
theirrights.) Should I be explaining that here?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 5 Apr 2023 05:01:16 +0000 (22:01 -0700)]
memoir: NRx education and "the moment of liberating clarity"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 4 Apr 2023 04:43:50 +0000 (21:43 -0700)]
check in against self-deception
You have to start writing in the morning! If you let the day get away
too far, sometimes you throw in the towel.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 3 Apr 2023 05:42:28 +0000 (22:42 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Apr 2023 01:26:05 +0000 (18:26 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:38:40 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
memoir: the insanity defense against tone policing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:32:31 +0000 (14:32 -0700)]
memoir: lit exam—the third bluebook
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 31 Mar 2023 05:14:50 +0000 (22:14 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 31 Mar 2023 03:48:23 +0000 (20:48 -0700)]
memoir: lit exam—the first two bluebooks
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:16:00 +0000 (21:16 -0700)]
memoir: lit exam ...
I want to recount some of the things I said before I started the exam
without disrupting the exposition there, so I moved it earlier where
it fits in thematically, but that just creates a horrible seam where
the corrigibility quip clashes with RationalMoron's question ... I can
fix it.
This has not been a great day, but I met my wordcount quota, so I can
feel OK about myself.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:46:34 +0000 (14:46 -0700)]
memoir: peace talks
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:03:21 +0000 (22:03 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:00:42 +0000 (22:00 -0700)]
memoir: Eliezerfic—editing, Big Yud lays down the challenge
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:00:02 +0000 (22:00 -0700)]
memoir: progress towards discussing the real thing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:10:56 +0000 (15:10 -0700)]
memoir: "Causal Reality"/"Self-Consciousness" slapfight, to § end
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Mar 2023 04:41:46 +0000 (21:41 -0700)]
memoir: NRx education, late '16/early '17
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:55:44 +0000 (17:55 -0700)]
memoir: some net tasks; timestamps surprised me
hovered over the the "6y ago" stamps on Facebook (while I had network
earlier today) unearthed surprising sequence details about what
happened exactly when
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Mar 2023 06:19:02 +0000 (23:19 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Mar 2023 06:17:41 +0000 (23:17 -0700)]
memoir: "Causal vs. Social Reality" scuffle
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Mar 2023 04:32:28 +0000 (21:32 -0700)]
GPT-4 guest post
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Mar 2023 23:10:24 +0000 (16:10 -0700)]
memoir: back-and-forth to explain the concept
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:54:34 +0000 (20:54 -0700)]
check in ... and thinking about an advance
Given that a lot of the unwritten sections are in pt. 4 and 6, I'm
thinking that I should prioritize getting a pt. 2 draft filled out, so
that I can polish and publish pts. 2 and 3 sooner (without 4–6 having
been done yet). It impose a little bit of communication overhead on my
friends re: clearances, but probably not insufferably much.
For now, I should just focus on cranking out 1000-wordcount days
(tomorrow, and the 27–31) as planned, but on 2 April, maybe I should
think about what it would look like to shove pt. 2 and 3 out the door
early?
So much time pressure in the current year.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:52:37 +0000 (20:52 -0700)]
memoir: sleepless Valentine's Day meltdown 2017
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:08:17 +0000 (20:08 -0700)]
memoir: the tragedy of scaling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:56:23 +0000 (09:56 -0700)]
memoir: fewer arrows, more power
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Mar 2023 04:54:26 +0000 (21:54 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Mar 2023 04:49:38 +0000 (21:49 -0700)]
memoir: February 2017 Facebook meltdown, cont'd
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:08:53 +0000 (19:08 -0700)]
memoir: "but I'm staying in"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:46:50 +0000 (15:46 -0700)]
memoir: tone-policing Lawrence