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4 years agosome sketching out TODO skeleton for "Sexual Dimorphism"
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I need to do my dayjob, but it would really be nice to make a push to
finish this post soon!

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4 years agoself-deception hash-anchor in "Human Diversity" review
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4 years agoWells for Boys!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:16:51 +0000 (19:16 -0700)]
Wells for Boys!

I don't normally stoop to filler linkposts, but there's a first time
for everything? It is a thing that some blogs do?

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4 years agofinish and publish "Memento Mori"
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4 years agoCurtis Yarvin robot cult quotepost
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4 years agoday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

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4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
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drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

4 years agoancillary pages for captions
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ancillary pages for captions

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I've been lazy, but it's time to make something of what's left of my
Sunday

4 years agodrafting "Memento Mori"
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I had shifted more activity to the laptop because I was afraid of
being interrupted by the rolling blackouts, but it turns out that I'm
in outage block 50, and " Block 50 customers are usually on the same
circuit as a critical facility such as a hospital, police station or
fire station and are unlikely to be affected by rotating block
outages"
(https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/planning-and-preparedness/safety-and-preparedness/find-your-rotating-outage-block/find-your-rotating-outage-block.page).

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4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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4 years agoimporting another ancillary Diary entry
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This unfinished short story draft is from 2011—it might be worth
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It's supposed to be a draft, not finished and scheduled for 1 January
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4 years agoInterlude from the archives
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 17 Jul 2020 03:55:33 +0000 (20:55 -0700)]
Interlude from the archives

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4 years agoupgrade links on "The Social Construction of Reality"
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4 years ago"Revenge, revenge, revenge—is the one thing on your mind"
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"Revenge, revenge, revenge—is the one thing on your mind"

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finish and publish "Oceans Rise, Empires Fall"

4 years agodrafting "Oceans Rise, Empires Fall"
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4 years agoanchor for "Schelling point for preventing group conflicts"
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4 years agolink to ancillary "Discover Related Products" image
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4 years agodelete notes that belong ... somewhere else
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I don't have a particular need of these for the blog, but I want to
host them here.

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4 years agostub: "Ideology Is the General Case" (working title)
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stub: "Ideology Is the General Case" (working title)

4 years agostart drafting "A Previous Life's War"
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4 years agogearing up to broaden the topic scope of the blog to porn criticism
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gearing up to broaden the topic scope of the blog to porn criticism

To clarify: not criticism of the existence of porn, as radfems
do. Rather, as in literary criticism. Featuring some of my own forays
into the genre.

4 years agogearing up for "Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 May 2020 06:00:35 +0000 (23:00 -0700)]
gearing up for "Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"

4 years agohidden pages for Diary entries 42, 53, and 296
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 May 2020 00:30:46 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
hidden pages for Diary entries 42, 53, and 296

I mentioned drawing on my Diary in "A Common Misunderstanding", and I
want to mention it at least twice more in passing in my
AGP-and-Yudkowskian-rationalism post (as a receipt that I had heard of
Yudkowsky before, and for first time I confessed to AGP even to my
Diary). But as long as I'm mentioning some of my Diary entries, I
might as well put up unindexed pages with the actual text. They're not
particularly interesting, but I write in a hyperlink-heavy register
that assumes that ancillary links are unobtrusive.

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4 years agopublish Human Diversity review?!
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publish Human Diversity review?!

Hope I don't regret this!

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review edit pass
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Human Diversity review edit pass

4 years agosoften the "shared environment doesn't" moral
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:21:51 +0000 (23:21 -0700)]
soften the "shared environment doesn't" moral

Thanks to my pre-readers for pushing back on this!

4 years agoenqueue "Peering Through Reverent Fingers" and "Teleology"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:45:12 +0000 (22:45 -0700)]
enqueue "Peering Through Reverent Fingers" and "Teleology"

4 years agolink the classic complaint against PHP
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:05:04 +0000 (23:05 -0700)]
link the classic complaint against PHP

4 years agoHuman Diversity review editing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Apr 2020 06:59:24 +0000 (23:59 -0700)]
Human Diversity review editing

I didn't make a full pass (Firefox Reader View says this is a 61–78
minute read!), but maybe I can send this out to potential pre-readers
even as the later 7/10ths are still rough.

4 years agoHuman Diversity review gapless rough draft!!
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Human Diversity review gapless rough draft!!

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4 years ago"informed" and "informative" mean different things
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"informed" and "informative" mean different things

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