M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Nov 2022 05:32:29 +0000 (22:32 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 31 Oct 2022 02:04:12 +0000 (19:04 -0700)]
memoir: reducing negativity (to § end)
I was having trouble getting started today, but I think I finally got
some flow and did some real thinking?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:39:05 +0000 (14:39 -0700)]
memoir: bullet and shovel
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:54:08 +0000 (12:54 -0700)]
memoir: bullet outline remainder of reducing-negativity §
Having trouble getting started? Nothing wrong with incremental
progress and tiny commits. The chain-of-thought prompting approach: if
you a large enough amount of computation turning vague notes into
less-vague bullet-outlines and less-vague bullet outlines into
paragraphs, you can eventually diffuse a completed ms. My limiting
factor is really the "large enough amount of computation", which is
rectified by keeping my butt in this chair and keeping the timer
running.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:31:27 +0000 (09:31 -0700)]
drop images into multi-product review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Oct 2022 04:44:52 +0000 (21:44 -0700)]
memoir: reducing negativity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:25:15 +0000 (15:25 -0700)]
memoir: Jessica help on "Optimized for Deception"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:21:19 +0000 (08:21 -0700)]
memoir progress metrics
This would be very Goodhartable (and doesn't take into account that
blockquotes or pre-written content from earlier notes/drafts getting
pasted into the ms. is easier than new ms. material), but I think it
does show that I started taking things more seriously in July ("An
Egoist Faith" having been published on 24 June).
I'd have to hit 1265 each today and tomorrow in order to match
August. (Monday I have to dayjob, and Alex Mennen's lecture series is
covering spectral graph theory.) That's very ambitious, but not, I
think, out of the question—if I take myself seriously.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Oct 2022 06:11:50 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
check in, including Signal review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:59:59 +0000 (12:59 -0700)]
organizing immediate TODOs ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:44:55 +0000 (12:44 -0700)]
check in ...
I'm here; I'm oriented to the ms.; issuing a commit now so I can
continue to build on a clean staging area.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:40:54 +0000 (11:40 -0700)]
Janet Mock quotepost
Having trouble getting started today—probably a mistake to have left
my phone on (thinking that I would use it to review Signal
history). Getting this filler post ready to queue is something?
The Doberman in the new Super Auto Pets is an interesting pivot unit?
But if I wanted to live, I wouldn't be thinking of Super Auto Pets.
If I just—keep the watch running, and force myself to spend time with
the ms., text will happen?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:09:24 +0000 (23:09 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:07:57 +0000 (23:07 -0700)]
the erotica tools post incl. silicone products, not just deep learning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:06:18 +0000 (23:06 -0700)]
memoir net fetch chores
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:20:03 +0000 (12:20 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:01:26 +0000 (22:01 -0700)]
memoir: yank out a pt. 4
Something feels wrong about the thought of mirroring a 50K word post
on Less Wrong. People would have to scroll down too far to read the
comments, and I want people to read the comments? Page load time on
that bloated JavaScript site? (Shouldn't be an issue; Jessica's
dramapost is slow to load, but that's almost certainly because of the
db JOINing all those comments, not because there's too much text.) For
whatever reason, a 35K word post feels better.
Not entirely sure about the title or the epigraph.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Oct 2022 22:44:41 +0000 (15:44 -0700)]
memoir: zinger cap to Christmas 2019 §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:23:34 +0000 (14:23 -0700)]
memoir: Christmas party 2019 (to § end)
I'm going to want to edit/rewrite part of this to better explain some
of the Vassarite inside baseball and tie it off with a zinger, but I
think this is good enough for a first pass?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Oct 2022 05:18:33 +0000 (22:18 -0700)]
memoir: Christmas party 2019
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:52:59 +0000 (08:52 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Oct 2022 05:55:11 +0000 (22:55 -0700)]
memoir: can't leave well enough alone (to § end)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:30:57 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
memoir: can't leave well enough alone
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:40:23 +0000 (13:40 -0700)]
memoir: Summer 2019 email re-review
My email review file isn't being that useful if I'm just going to
re-read the emails again while taking notes into the ms. I think these
bullets are detailed enough for me to make another pass turning them
into prose, and continuously filling out this § of the ms. (likely
another day when I have network clearance to review threads that I
don't have saved off into the private notes directory)?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 21 Oct 2022 05:27:39 +0000 (22:27 -0700)]
memoir tap
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:08:26 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
memoir editing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:31:10 +0000 (12:31 -0700)]
thinking about dropping the pseudonym ...
The non-secret identity games have already worn thin, and if I'm
telling this story that already ties into a lot of real-world
drama—for example, some of the public interest in my story will come
from how it relates to Jessica's story and the public intrigue around
whether Michael is Good or Bad, which has already been the subject of
a 950+ comment trainwreck—and if I'm actively trying to deal
reputational damage to other people's realnames (viz. Yudkowsky), it's
only fair that I show my own realname while doing it, and if I'm
dropping it for these posts, it makes sense to drop it for the whole
blog ...
For now, I'm just going to supply an "Author:" heading on these
postfiles individually, while I'm still drafting; the full blog
rebrand (and changing .gitconfig) can wait until I'm ready and thought
through all the angles.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:47:00 +0000 (08:47 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Oct 2022 01:06:16 +0000 (18:06 -0700)]
memoir: more 2019 event scaffolding
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Oct 2022 23:19:36 +0000 (16:19 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:53:40 +0000 (14:53 -0700)]
memoir: May 2019 tussle with Anna
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Oct 2022 17:02:11 +0000 (10:02 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Oct 2022 01:25:50 +0000 (18:25 -0700)]
Satur-day memoir redemption session
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:35:53 +0000 (08:35 -0700)]
check in before redemption
I somehow lost track of time yesterday?! It was awful! I must not be
complacent today. I am on-mission today!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Oct 2022 20:18:03 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
memoir: shovel content from "I Tell" draft; including, footnotes
Since the function of this megapost is to say everything I need to say
in one place, footnotes seem like a useful vehicle for folding away
some ancillary content such that it doesn't slow down the main
narrative more than it needs to.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:21:42 +0000 (11:21 -0700)]
memoir: compile rationality quotes from other authors
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Oct 2022 17:40:50 +0000 (10:40 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:34:59 +0000 (17:34 -0700)]
memoir: grab reference material from internet before I go offline
We really want to finish telling the Whole Dumb Story this year!! I'm
meeting Seanan briefly, and I've spent a lot of time today being
netsick, but at least just now I've copied down online refs that I
need for the text, so I can pull my network cable out and write
frantically for the next three days.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:15:06 +0000 (14:15 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 23:36:58 +0000 (16:36 -0700)]
memoir: TODO outlining in 2019 and to close
Okay, after some more email review, now these TODO blocks feel
sufficiently specific, that just filling them in one by one actually
seems viable as a plan to get a continuous first draft? I think there
are like 37 TODO blocks?
(Then there's edit passes, inserting good content from the sections
file that didn't make it in, finishing "Blanchard's Dangerous Idea",
finishing the reply to Scott on autogenderphilia, finishing the
supplement about pseudonyms, getting feedback from friendly and
hostile prereaders, asking privacy-mongers if it's OK to name them
... think I can do it all in three months??)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 22:36:51 +0000 (15:36 -0700)]
memoir: threatening to walk
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 18:50:48 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
memoir: abortive early memoir attempt, dayjob stuggles
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 17:21:03 +0000 (10:21 -0700)]
check in dath ilan griping notes
I really shouldn't waste time in the 'Eliezerfic' Discord server. I
had some notes of some more griping I wanted to do there, but it's
better if I check it in as a draft. If I end up having a few spare
cycles on a weekday to polish it into a post for this blog, I can post
the link in the channel as a bonus (with a "content warning:
anti-Semitism, discussion of sex crimes"), but it's really not what
I'm supposed to be working on right now.
(My hostile commentary on dath ilan is motivated by my resentment of
modern Yudkowsky; it's more efficient and less obfuscated to finish
telling the Whole Dumb Story of why I resent him so much.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 00:53:38 +0000 (17:53 -0700)]
memoir: post-defeat, April 2019
I hadn't been sure how to explain the schism, and it looks like "just
summarize the emails" is working OK ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 23:23:47 +0000 (16:23 -0700)]
memoir: I need a better outline of what happened in Apr.–Nov. 2019
I had a bunch of individual scraps and sentences, but I wasn't sure
how to organize them; I don't know how to explain the factional
schism. Reading through the email review log chronologically and just
trying to tell the Dumb Story chronologically probably can't hurt?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 19:48:47 +0000 (12:48 -0700)]
memoir: rent-extraction machine
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:33:24 +0000 (10:33 -0700)]
check in / false start?
Starting a serious work day at ten-thirty-something is fine! It's
fine. I'm here.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 06:18:24 +0000 (23:18 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 00:12:39 +0000 (17:12 -0700)]
check in before a solid three-day sprint!!
I pulled out my network cable yesterday, but let myself get distracted
with phone and laptop. (I am proud of some zinger commentary I got off
in the Eliezerfic server.)
I have plans to see Father on Sunday evening. I want to get some solid
momentum tonight, and treat tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday-before-17
as serious heads-down workdays. The phone should go off after I watch
teevee tonight (there's a new Lower Decks, and I'm enjoying the
Hansonian black comedy Avenue 5); it's too dangerous.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 3 Oct 2022 00:41:14 +0000 (17:41 -0700)]
memoir tap
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 22:05:15 +0000 (15:05 -0700)]
memoir: defeat, should have known, bot therapy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 19:33:20 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
memoir: Category War initial defeat
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 18:13:19 +0000 (11:13 -0700)]
memoir: skeleton prep for Category War initial defeat §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 02:59:32 +0000 (19:59 -0700)]
memoir check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 00:33:21 +0000 (17:33 -0700)]
memoir: trans kids on the margin
This is going to need some editing and is definitely subject to prior
constraint. But I think it's much stronger to have this part, rather
than to say "not my story to tell" and move on without a hint.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Oct 2022 18:57:51 +0000 (11:57 -0700)]
memoir: trans kids in historical context
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Oct 2022 03:19:51 +0000 (20:19 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Oct 2022 01:21:00 +0000 (18:21 -0700)]
memoir: building up to my private Document
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:33:03 +0000 (16:33 -0700)]
check in, incl. walrus tap and deleting a stale draft
The "Abridged Guide" draft, based on a January 2019 email, is
superceded by the § in "Hill" built off of the same email.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:26:02 +0000 (16:26 -0700)]
go back to "Beyond the Binary" title
"Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancelable Stereotypes" is just—
a really bad, boring title. This is more fun and memorable.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:26:26 +0000 (15:26 -0700)]
memoir poke (egregore doesn't care about the past, adversarial norms)
I am not having a great Friday. But it's only half past fifteen;
there's still time to step it into gear! It's not—over.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:00:48 +0000 (12:00 -0700)]
memoir poking and shoveling; incl. "out of patience" email excerpt
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)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Sep 2022 05:02:34 +0000 (22:02 -0700)]
check in
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)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 04:45:28 +0000 (21:45 -0700)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
memoir check in
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".)