M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Feb 2023 01:52:56 +0000 (17:52 -0800)]
remove `anchor-` from anchors in "... To Make Predictions"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Feb 2023 06:11:54 +0000 (22:11 -0800)]
memoir: Sabbatai Zevi
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 17 Feb 2023 06:38:35 +0000 (22:38 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 17 Feb 2023 06:37:09 +0000 (22:37 -0800)]
memoir: the case for voting for nincompoops
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:23:48 +0000 (19:23 -0800)]
memoir: pie-splitting contest
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 15 Feb 2023 19:13:12 +0000 (11:13 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:35:58 +0000 (23:35 -0800)]
memoir: outlining about threats
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:15:14 +0000 (08:15 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:38:18 +0000 (12:38 -0800)]
copy edits and Facebook screenshots from prereader feedback
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Feb 2023 06:26:53 +0000 (22:26 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Feb 2023 06:26:14 +0000 (22:26 -0800)]
memoir: tap at Discord parley with Scott
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:14:04 +0000 (16:14 -0800)]
memoir: tap at threats §
Not sure how to weave in the Emerson prosecution anecdote; keep
rolling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 11 Feb 2023 05:29:30 +0000 (21:29 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 11 Feb 2023 05:28:03 +0000 (21:28 -0800)]
memoir: threats and timeless decision theory
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 10 Feb 2023 03:33:43 +0000 (19:33 -0800)]
memoir: Eliezerfic fight, cont'd cont'd
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Feb 2023 05:05:50 +0000 (21:05 -0800)]
memoir: Eliezerfic fight, cont'd ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Feb 2023 00:47:41 +0000 (16:47 -0800)]
memoir: why not comment
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Feb 2023 05:58:13 +0000 (21:58 -0800)]
check in against self-deception
...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 7 Feb 2023 01:19:31 +0000 (17:19 -0800)]
memoir: Eliezerfic fight ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:52:45 +0000 (22:52 -0800)]
memoir: editing prelude to Eliezerfic fight
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Jan 2023 06:02:19 +0000 (22:02 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:24:50 +0000 (11:24 -0800)]
memoir: yank out a new pt. 6?!
"Agreeing With Stalin" was starting to push 30K words, and I still
have the bulk of the Eliezerfic fight analysis to write, and the
analysis of what's wrong with the "agreeing with Stalin" policy
deserves to be the central focus of its own blog post, without too
much Diary-like blather hanging off either end of it.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:07:40 +0000 (11:07 -0800)]
memoir: Feynman
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:41:22 +0000 (22:41 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:38:05 +0000 (22:38 -0800)]
memoir: date night in Cambridge, pt. 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Jan 2023 05:31:49 +0000 (21:31 -0800)]
memoir: "Vassarite" discourse
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Jan 2023 05:31:01 +0000 (21:31 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:56:51 +0000 (09:56 -0800)]
memoir: bullet notes of Boston–New York trip
I hadn't previously thought of including this, but reviewing the
transcript of my conversation with Scott about "Vassarite" danger
reminded me of it, and it feels like it adds "color" to the story,
revealing information about real life that people don't ordinarily
write about?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:35:59 +0000 (22:35 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:35:30 +0000 (22:35 -0800)]
memoir poke: Jessica's memoir
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Jan 2023 05:48:13 +0000 (21:48 -0800)]
gather/check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Jan 2023 03:10:19 +0000 (19:10 -0800)]
memoir: Extraordinary EMT Merrin
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 21 Jan 2023 05:28:33 +0000 (21:28 -0800)]
memoir: Glowfic/dath ilan intro
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 21 Jan 2023 02:07:32 +0000 (18:07 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 21 Jan 2023 01:55:12 +0000 (17:55 -0800)]
memoir: behind the scenes of "Challenges"
I like this chronological accounting much better than dumping the
quote of Oli's beautiful comment in a list of accusations.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:52:27 +0000 (21:52 -0800)]
memoir: Challenges to Yudkowsky's Personality Cult
See—by exerting a little bit of discipline over the course of a day, I
can grow the ms. by 1000 words. If I just do that six days a week, I
can finish this project in a reasonable amount of time.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:48:36 +0000 (21:48 -0800)]
Yarvin dropped his pen name, too
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:36:49 +0000 (14:36 -0800)]
memoir: if the world were at stake
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Jan 2023 05:19:28 +0000 (21:19 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:59:39 +0000 (20:59 -0800)]
memoir poke: AlphaGo moments
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:47:34 +0000 (11:47 -0800)]
"it takes a little boldness" (check in)
Still not feeling the boldness to charge forward with the ms.?! But I
have to—and it shouldn't be a matter of needing to force it. It's just
a matter of not being evasive. I want a clear account of how I've
spent–wasted the last seven years of my life so that I can stop being
a vengeful ghost, so that I can close the loop and start thinking new
thoughts again. I want it! And I need to understand that the only way
to do that—the only way to get there—is by carefully thinking all the
old thoughts (like I've done all day every day for years) while Emacs
happens to be open.
I don't need to be self-conscious about my text being bad, because I'm
not publishing yet. Even if someone can dig through my Git history
(because I'm so ideologically opposed to privacy that a link to the
repository is just sitting there in the footer, in public, even if I'm
human enough to sometimes want privacy against self-consciousness)
... my network cable isn't even plugged in now! And it won't be until
Saturday night. And I can amuse myself with frivolties then, and it
will feel good. But for now—for three and a half days—I need to be
sitting here being honest with myself. While Emacs happens to be open.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Jan 2023 05:49:03 +0000 (21:49 -0800)]
check in ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:54:07 +0000 (17:54 -0800)]
finish Johnny the Walrus review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:21:05 +0000 (14:21 -0800)]
check in after waking up on the wrong side of the bed
Having trouble getting started (thinking about how I'll slot in minor
posts before the memoir, including a "straight" version of the Murray
2021 review without the planned extended coda, doesn't count); in
despair, put the cable back in for a little bit, as if to "start
over", to say that my communications blackout hadn't "really" started
yet, because it's going to be an awesome-productivity time, and I
haven't been feeling awesome this morning and early afternoon.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:48:38 +0000 (16:48 -0800)]
gather resources before going dark again
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 15 Jan 2023 04:20:33 +0000 (20:20 -0800)]
memoir: filling in TODO blocks ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Jan 2023 17:55:07 +0000 (09:55 -0800)]
memoir: revise pseudonymity grafs given that I'll be dropping it
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Jan 2023 05:08:26 +0000 (21:08 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:22:23 +0000 (18:22 -0800)]
memoir: outlining prep for Eliezerfic fight
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:11:02 +0000 (17:11 -0800)]
memoir pokes: writing to Scott and /r/gendercritical, dayjob IQ minimum
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:51:33 +0000 (15:51 -0800)]
memoir: humility vs. the vaccine gambit
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Jan 2023 06:50:16 +0000 (22:50 -0800)]
memoir pokes: critical communism, vaccine polarization
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Jan 2023 03:26:18 +0000 (19:26 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Jan 2023 04:19:25 +0000 (20:19 -0800)]
gather resources before going dark for a few days
Network cable physically out, phone physically off is the way to
go. I'll see you later, bearing wordcount as a gift from my time away.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Jan 2023 22:11:08 +0000 (14:11 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:48:47 +0000 (16:48 -0800)]
memoir: eugenic dreams
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:05:58 +0000 (23:05 -0800)]
memoir swipes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Jan 2023 21:49:19 +0000 (13:49 -0800)]
memoir: some pt. 2 editing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Jan 2023 19:35:35 +0000 (11:35 -0800)]
memoir wordcount automation precision
I think the LibreOffice Calc graph I brought up earlier was just
graphing the datapoints in sequence; the horizontal axis was "Git tree
time" (sampled every 5 commits) rather than sidereal time. If we grab
an end-of-day wordcount for every day, and stuff every day into the
spreadsheet, then the datapoints in sequence are sidereal time.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Jan 2023 02:03:07 +0000 (18:03 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Jan 2023 01:59:36 +0000 (17:59 -0800)]
memoir: Wilhelm's "sharp right turn"; and, Nevada
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 7 Jan 2023 18:51:52 +0000 (10:51 -0800)]
memoir wordcount automation
This doesn't count as an accomplishment today, the second day of the
new year (that I'm willing to admit to), but it's—warming up my typing
fingers. Now to make the line go up!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 7 Jan 2023 06:47:27 +0000 (22:47 -0800)]
6 January is the first day of the new year
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 4 Jan 2023 22:32:47 +0000 (14:32 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 4 Jan 2023 06:49:43 +0000 (22:49 -0800)]
Nevada annotations
I didn't think I was going to get around to writing a Nevada review,
but I realized I did want to mention it in my memoir (as one of the
earlier clues in my 2016 Blanchpilling), and just dumping my
annotations is easier than writing a proper review of a book in which
nothing happens.
The double-underline CSS is not working, but maybe I'll try poking at
it again later.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Jan 2023 06:53:04 +0000 (22:53 -0800)]
memoir: from the top ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Jan 2023 03:03:49 +0000 (19:03 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:53:08 +0000 (22:53 -0800)]
memoir: poke Eliezerfic fight
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:30:17 +0000 (22:30 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Dec 2022 02:46:03 +0000 (18:46 -0800)]
memoir: Murray alignment, 2020 EA survey
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:50:26 +0000 (16:50 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:08:29 +0000 (19:08 -0800)]
check in
My attention kind of got derailed since Fan Expo.
But I think I got the last few bits of reward-model training data that
I needed.
I'm OK.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 16 Dec 2022 21:10:12 +0000 (13:10 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Dec 2022 02:36:56 +0000 (18:36 -0800)]
Thellim vs. Jane Austen anchor location
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 9 Dec 2022 04:04:25 +0000 (20:04 -0800)]
finish and publish Fan Expo/TransCat joint review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 8 Dec 2022 23:47:20 +0000 (15:47 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Dec 2022 03:26:39 +0000 (19:26 -0800)]
Fan Expo/TransCat joint review almost there ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Dec 2022 07:31:14 +0000 (23:31 -0800)]
Fan Expo/Trans Cat
Humilitating that this boring Diary fillerpost isn't done yet. I'm
sure I can tie it off tomorrow or Monday.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Dec 2022 07:05:39 +0000 (23:05 -0800)]
drafting Fan Expo account
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Dec 2022 03:49:52 +0000 (19:49 -0800)]
Discord monologue
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Dec 2022 01:44:32 +0000 (17:44 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Nov 2022 06:45:52 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
drafting Fan Expo account
Okay, this isn't going out the door tonight, but let's get it out the
door tomorrow, and back to the memoir—I mean, the interesting memoir
of religious betrayal, not this crappy opportunistic "my day at Fan
Expo" memoir.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:12:34 +0000 (21:12 -0800)]
I figured out how to make the "Cocoon" epigraph quote fit!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Nov 2022 06:53:45 +0000 (22:53 -0800)]
SF Fan Expo bullet points
Seems fine to do a quick post about this, as long as it's quick—out
the door tomorrow night (I had hoped to finish and publish
"Multi-Product Review" before this, because it describes the mask
purchase, and then I thought about delaying this to finish
"Multi-Product Review" first, but that's a terrible idea; this isn't
interesting enough of a post to be worth an extended writing and
editing process; the excuse for publishing a less-interesting post is
that it's cheap to produce and shove out the door fast while it's
still about a recent memory)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Nov 2022 02:45:26 +0000 (18:45 -0800)]
memoir: deep learning blues
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Nov 2022 01:44:05 +0000 (17:44 -0800)]
check in (peeking at resources on the laptop)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:42:01 +0000 (09:42 -0800)]
morning poke (walrus, soldiers)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Nov 2022 06:44:36 +0000 (22:44 -0800)]
memoir: Meghan Murphy's law, triskaidekaphobia, tap at recap
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Nov 2022 06:43:28 +0000 (22:43 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:59:24 +0000 (21:59 -0800)]
harvest some net resources on a cable-in day
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:02:21 +0000 (16:02 -0800)]
memoir: pt. 5 bullet expansion—xrisk, SJ, Dolphin War
The diffusion model methodology: notes → bullet points → more detailed
bullet points → prose. This should make it easier to write
prose. Right?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:07:15 +0000 (12:07 -0800)]
memoir: absolutely trying to be a religious leader
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:03:51 +0000 (12:03 -0800)]
check in name spelling correction and anchor
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:23:27 +0000 (18:23 -0800)]
memoir: yank out a new pt. 4!!
Previously, I was imagining a three part structure, with the middle
part being substantially bigger: "Blanchard's Dangerous Idea" (20K
words), "Hill of Validity" (40K words), "Agreeing With Stalin" (20K
words).
The reason for keeping the middle part so large was because I thought
the period from November 2018 (the Twitter thread that started the
civil war) to September 2020 (the end of the Category War) was a unit
that should be kept together.
But when I started looking for the median of the piece by wordcount,
it turns out it was actually after the discussion of "... Boundaries?"
That actually is a good cutoff point!
That is, previously I was thinking the structure was "2017 AGP
freakout", "Category War", "political epilogue"—and I wasn't happy
with how that put the December 2020 psychiatric disaster at the top of
the political epilogue. (If it didn't belong in the story of the
Category War ending September 2020, it chronologically fit in at the
beginning of the next post.)
But if Nov. 2018–Apr. 2019 is its own part, then the next part becomes
the Whole Dumb Story of my alliance with the Vassarites, and it is
natural for that to end with the psychiatric disaster of December
2020! I also get to use an awesome partial quote from Michael as a
title (which just occured to me now while trying to think of a title).
A 4·20K tetrology is better for readers than a middle-lop-sided
20K/40K/20K trilogy.
There are also seem to be psychological/motivational benefits: this
way, I'm actually done with pt. 3! (No TODO blocks, and probably not
even that much editing.) If I finish what's now pt. 5 soon (seems
doable), then I "just" have to go back an fill in the history for pt.s
2 and 4.
I also think it changes the focus, in a good way?! By framing pt. 4 as
the story of the Vassarites, I feel more like I'm telling a story,
rather than writing a hate letter about Yudkowsky. I think this is
good for me.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Nov 2022 01:27:26 +0000 (17:27 -0800)]
multi-product review: finish bodysuit §, write quick mask §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:34:40 +0000 (13:34 -0800)]
memoir: poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:40:07 +0000 (21:40 -0800)]
memoir: pokes, community college guidance counselor anecdote
The analysis of the pronoun post has so many banger lines.
I think I'm going to need to cut or footnote a lot of the Topher email
section, which is less interesting and deserves less relative
wordcount. (Play-by-play of social media exchanges are boring; I was
originally only going to mention it on account of my highly-Liked
comment being a potential explanation for him reopening the
discussion; if it's there, it's there as evidence supporting the
"privacy as expectation to participate in a political cover-up"
angle.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:48:40 +0000 (16:48 -0800)]
memoir: bridge from email leak to resumption of hostilities
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:39:12 +0000 (13:39 -0800)]
I ordered another product for next week's Fan Expo
This is going to be lit!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:03:09 +0000 (18:03 -0800)]
memoir: save off a bunch of net resources before pulling my cable
The "physically pull out the network cable" strategy for avoiding
distraction is really dumb, but unfortunately, it's actually more
reliable than toggling the connection in software or having willpower
to do the right thing.