M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:20:08 +0000 (17:20 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:56:34 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
memoir: poke at April 2019
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:48:48 +0000 (08:48 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:20:19 +0000 (23:20 -0700)]
publish "Friendship Practices"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 05:41:18 +0000 (22:41 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 04:17:06 +0000 (21:17 -0700)]
memoir: "Gonna Get Over You"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:04:11 +0000 (18:04 -0700)]
memoir: MIRIcult, SRS roulette
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:02:14 +0000 (17:02 -0700)]
memoir: fill more details—second outreach attempt; meet with Ziz & Gwen
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:19:04 +0000 (11:19 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Sep 2022 05:02:34 +0000 (22:02 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Sep 2022 05:58:21 +0000 (22:58 -0700)]
memoir: considering another ridiculous digression about privacy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:06:52 +0000 (21:06 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Sep 2022 01:06:57 +0000 (18:06 -0700)]
memoir: motive to deal reputational damage; Scott gets a pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:42:32 +0000 (17:42 -0700)]
memoir: a ridiculous digression about adherence to privacy norms
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:24:27 +0000 (13:24 -0700)]
memoir: edit pass on beginning of pt. 3
This may have been suboptimal task ordering (it would be weird if I
ended up getting tired and shoving something out the door in 2023
where the beginning was tightly optimized from me having started an
edit pass "from the top" so many times, but the middle was a rough
mess), but that's not important; sustained engagement with the ms. is
our limiting resource and is approximately always a good thing.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 18:02:08 +0000 (11:02 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 04:45:28 +0000 (21:45 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:06:30 +0000 (18:06 -0700)]
JavaScript conditionals require parens as part of the grammar
Maybe correctly remembering JavaScript syntax will help me feel less
gross.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:05:16 +0000 (18:05 -0700)]
special-case zero for comment count
Maybe tweaking some JavaScript will help me feel less gross.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:00:33 +0000 (18:00 -0700)]
shove "The Signaling Hazard Objection" out the door
What if publishing a post from my buffer makes me feel less gross?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:52:43 +0000 (17:52 -0700)]
check in while feeling gross
I'm not having a good day today—relaxing and pursuing pleasure isn't
actually fulfilling when it's an excuse for not being brave enough to
write; I had thought of slapping together this auto-auto erotica tools
filler post (there are some Stable Diffusion images to go with it)
with some of my spare free energy (in parallel with memoiring), but
now I'm feeling so disgusted and weak that I don't think I believe in
spare energy—maybe I'll pick it up again in a moment where I don't
feel gross and believe in free energy.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 17 Sep 2022 04:34:15 +0000 (21:34 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:59:04 +0000 (17:59 -0700)]
memoir: a battle between Feelings and Truth
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:15:57 +0000 (14:15 -0700)]
memoir: finish draft § on "tossed in a Bucket" ambiguity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:31:58 +0000 (15:31 -0700)]
memoir: gamete size obfuscation
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:47:44 +0000 (11:47 -0700)]
memoir section reorder shoveling
I think my discussion of the bucket metaphor belongs chronologically
while I'm addressing the Feb. 2021 pronouns post, then we can
transition from that to the discussion of bad faith.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:57:52 +0000 (10:57 -0700)]
edits to "filler" (?) posts
"Friendship Practices" isn't "filler"! What I mean is, this
isn't where my mind should be now.
I think just cutting the "frustrating" topic sentence does a lot
to hide the ball.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:44:57 +0000 (17:44 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:50:57 +0000 (18:50 -0700)]
memoir: quick note on the optimization lens?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:36:58 +0000 (18:36 -0700)]
memoir: "Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Sep 2022 15:03:38 +0000 (08:03 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:51:26 +0000 (18:51 -0700)]
memoir: novices like me and Michelle Alleva ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Sep 2022 23:41:29 +0000 (16:41 -0700)]
memoir: not liking to be tossed into a Student Bucket
We should probably try to cut some words in editing, but this is OK
draft material, and I think I'm seeing the transition sentences to
string the parts together.
Perhaps another draft pass should play up the analogy between student
dysphoria and gender dysphoria: I can't expect people to have read the
link.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Sep 2022 18:52:34 +0000 (11:52 -0700)]
memoir: internet-enabled references, next waypoints
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 9 Sep 2022 14:48:19 +0000 (07:48 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 6 Sep 2022 05:44:34 +0000 (22:44 -0700)]
memoir: beating on the hair surgery example
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 6 Sep 2022 01:27:59 +0000 (18:27 -0700)]
memoir: hair surgery does not propogate backwards in time
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Sep 2022 20:31:04 +0000 (13:31 -0700)]
memoir: bitter ending?
I probably shouldn't actually end this on such a spiteful note. (I'm
trying to communicate a lot of complicated things, not just "Yudkowsky
Bad".)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Sep 2022 20:10:43 +0000 (13:10 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Sep 2022 01:26:04 +0000 (18:26 -0700)]
memoir: not doubting how the algorithm feels
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Sep 2022 20:40:52 +0000 (13:40 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Sep 2022 19:56:44 +0000 (12:56 -0700)]
draft: "The Signaling Hazard Objection"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Sep 2022 16:43:56 +0000 (09:43 -0700)]
memoir check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Sep 2022 02:09:55 +0000 (19:09 -0700)]
memoir: Abram Demski on wireheading
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Sep 2022 23:17:10 +0000 (16:17 -0700)]
memoir: poking
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Sep 2022 20:21:05 +0000 (13:21 -0700)]
memoir: victim of systemic abuse
Could probably cut some more words here? But that's for the editing
phase; we still have so much further to go to a completed ms. ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Sep 2022 19:22:20 +0000 (12:22 -0700)]
memoir: poke and fold
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Sep 2022 18:34:22 +0000 (11:34 -0700)]
memoir: memoir reluctance, some 2019 outline clarity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Sep 2022 02:59:52 +0000 (19:59 -0700)]
memoir: shovel reply to Xu into main ms.; section TODO queue
I think designating sections that look "easy" (easier, less
impossible) to get started on (rather than writing contiguously
top-to-bottom) is OK and I've done it before.
Does it make sense to write "easy" sections first, instead of saving
them as a treat? You tell me.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Sep 2022 01:12:38 +0000 (18:12 -0700)]
memoir: the making of "... Boundaries?" behind the scenes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Sep 2022 17:21:01 +0000 (10:21 -0700)]
memoir: edits
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Sep 2022 06:15:16 +0000 (23:15 -0700)]
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The next three days are going to be a retreat. I'm going to be alive
again.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:01:39 +0000 (14:01 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:18:41 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
memoir: replying to David Xu
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:35:43 +0000 (11:35 -0700)]
memoir: beginning to explain "... Boundaries?"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:20:11 +0000 (18:20 -0700)]
memoir: how to organize ending?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Aug 2022 23:59:31 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
memoir: "Challenges" coda § edit pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:20:55 +0000 (15:20 -0700)]
memoir: building towards "... Boundaries?"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:35:31 +0000 (12:35 -0700)]
memoir: defend/alter the beacon, enter Jessica, misc. edits
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:17:07 +0000 (10:17 -0700)]
memoir insertions: Norton lied to, Stadler lies, cis women too
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Aug 2022 02:46:19 +0000 (19:46 -0700)]
memoir: wrapping up with Scott
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Aug 2022 01:21:23 +0000 (18:21 -0700)]
memoir: the story about Melkor's orcs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:29:32 +0000 (17:29 -0700)]
memoir: finish proton "concession" §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:00:06 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:45:19 +0000 (23:45 -0700)]
grab some quotes using internet access
I was sad and lazy today. I think I can turn it around tomorrow.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:57:43 +0000 (11:57 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 22 Aug 2022 01:12:14 +0000 (18:12 -0700)]
memoir: aborting Michael's intervention, proton concession
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:04:29 +0000 (13:04 -0700)]
memoir: March–early April 2017 email review
The email review notefile has been helpful for pt. 3 (working title "A
Hill ..."); let's do it for pt. 2 (working title "Blanchard's
Dangerous Idea ...") as well. Most of these emails are boring until we
get to the psych ward incident, which I don't feel like reading in
full detail ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:00:19 +0000 (12:00 -0700)]
memoir: some reading/editing in late 2018 region ...
Reading existing prose and making a few tweaks isn't the most
productive possible motion (it definitely needs to be done at the end,
but it doesn't obviously need to be done now, with so many gaps in the
ms.), but it is motion. Fire and motion!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Aug 2022 02:07:21 +0000 (19:07 -0700)]
memoir: fold in Emperor Norton example
I've regretted not thinking to include the Rutherford B. Hayes quip in
the original "... To Make Predictions" and had considered back-editing
it in. But it fits here.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:05:30 +0000 (17:05 -0700)]
memoir: more shoveling
I think I have enough of an idea of where these blocks of text should
live, that I can drop them into the ms. proper and continue to sculpt
and rearrange them there, rather than them being strewn through the
unreadable mess of the scrapfile.
The ms. proper having a larger wordcount than the "sections" scrapfile
seems like a significant milestone? But still so much further to go.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Aug 2022 23:29:26 +0000 (16:29 -0700)]
memoir: shovel pronouns coda into ms.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Aug 2022 23:13:28 +0000 (16:13 -0700)]
a few copy edits to "Friendship Practices"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Aug 2022 23:12:14 +0000 (16:12 -0700)]
memoir: treachery, faith, and the great river §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Aug 2022 20:12:10 +0000 (13:12 -0700)]
memoir: tapping at sections ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:21:35 +0000 (22:21 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Aug 2022 04:44:40 +0000 (21:44 -0700)]
complete draft of "Friendship Practices"
People really don't do things! I literally had this idea at least six
years ago, and I'm only now finishing the draft, which is ... less
than 1000 words. It shouldn't take more than two days to write 1000
words. How many day-equivalents did I spend doing less valuable things
for those six years?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Aug 2022 03:48:51 +0000 (20:48 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:25:33 +0000 (12:25 -0700)]
memoir: poke at outline and prose ...
I probably have enough outlining? What I actually need to do with
large blocks of time is to honestly pick a TODO section (it could be
small, it could be out of order, but it has to be a specific section
with a specific subgoal) and start filling it in with actual
sentences. That's the only way to move forward; everything else is
lying.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:53:09 +0000 (11:53 -0700)]
memoir: next pipeline step—revise roughy outline notes from email notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:27:18 +0000 (11:27 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:21:39 +0000 (17:21 -0700)]
memoir: finish email review
Review of Sept. 2020 to present went faster because not much happened.
Having gone through the whole email history is useful, because it
gives me the complete temporal skeleton of what happened when to build
the ms. on—and because, now I don't have "I can do more email review
now" as an excuse to procrastinate the hard work of actually writing
prose.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:07:14 +0000 (14:07 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Aug 2022 22:40:12 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
memoir: on defending against "alt-right" categorization
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Aug 2022 21:05:26 +0000 (14:05 -0700)]
memoir: Anna–Michael feud
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:55:24 +0000 (10:55 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Aug 2022 06:12:10 +0000 (23:12 -0700)]
memoir: email review up to September 2020
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:28:48 +0000 (17:28 -0700)]
memoir: support from Michael
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:24:00 +0000 (13:24 -0700)]
memoir: tap at growing ms.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:22:07 +0000 (13:22 -0700)]
memoir: email review to 21 January 2020
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:13:02 +0000 (17:13 -0700)]
memoir: email review through 2019
Pushing the email review that far was good (compared to the baseline
of doing nothing because people don't, in general, do things), but
it's important that I grow the ms. itself!!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:09:14 +0000 (12:09 -0700)]
check in before targeted confrontations
Ripping out the network cable as on previous weekends turned out to be
a disappointing intervention: there's always some way to waste time
(with FreeCell or paper books or just pacing) if that's what you want
to do.
I'll keep the network off (via software) during focus blocks, but the
intervention that really matters is the focus blocks: to actually
start the timer, and honestly engage with the ms. while the timer is
running. Yesterday I just hung out (book delivery to Valinor, made
another book for Amelia), and I've hung out in the morning today
(after doing a quick dayjob thing), but it's only—it's only a little
bit after noon. There's still time for this to be an honest full
writing day. I've got my scratchers (as a reward when finishing a
block); I've got my mellocreme pumpkins (as a reward when starting a
block). All I have to do is—start the timer. And be brave enough to
accept what that implies.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 01:58:17 +0000 (18:58 -0700)]
memoir: for the uniform; outlining
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Aug 2022 23:26:43 +0000 (16:26 -0700)]
memoir: impulsive points
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Aug 2022 20:36:41 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
memoir: five impulsive points ...
I probably want to be more aggressive about distilling here, rather
than pasting in the majority of the email; the specific five points
here aren't that important to the story.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Aug 2022 06:16:25 +0000 (23:16 -0700)]
memoir: overheating incident ...
(OK, further writing progress today got distracted by the Stable
Diffusion beta.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 Aug 2022 22:52:00 +0000 (15:52 -0700)]
memoir: prelude to March 2019 overheating incident
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 Aug 2022 19:59:23 +0000 (12:59 -0700)]
be real
Given the default that people don't do things (I still have a couple
paragraphs to go before finishing "Friendship Practices", a tiny short
story whose draftfile has been sitting in the repo since the very
beginning), it's entirely possible for me to not finish this memoir
before the world ends! (In addition to being short, "Friendship
Practices" doesn't even feature anything particularly painful or
difficult to confront; it just takes a modest amount of writing-effort
to be done correctly, and it's easy to just—never fit in the effort,
over five years.) If I want to avoid the fate of dying incomplete, I
need to do better than my last two and half days—a lot better.
If we can get ten blocks in by 2000, then I'll feel OK about myself
(and plug in my network cable and try out the Stable Diffusion beta).
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 Aug 2022 17:26:26 +0000 (10:26 -0700)]
memoir: elaborate on theocrats and speech codes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 Aug 2022 06:10:46 +0000 (23:10 -0700)]
feud poke