M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:10:43 +0000 (15:10 -0700)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Apr 2023 01:26:05 +0000 (18:26 -0700)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:17:44 +0000 (22:17 -0700)]
memoir: February 2017 public Facebook meltdown
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 22 Mar 2023 04:46:03 +0000 (21:46 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:45:37 +0000 (13:45 -0700)]
memoir: some fine details to the parts about "Helen" and Sophia
Writing is impossible! (Even little parts of the story that don't
"really matter" have all sorts of little details to them—I added a
point to the far editing tier where I still don't think I got this
right—and I want to explain the details correctly because I think it's
a cute window onto the tapestry of my life, but if I spend too long on
every detail, then I'm not going to finish telling the Whole Dumb
Story before the world ends)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:55:05 +0000 (13:55 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Mar 2023 23:28:35 +0000 (16:28 -0700)]
memoir: feminism consult, "doesn't unambiguously refer", Ben 1st contact
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Mar 2023 05:35:45 +0000 (22:35 -0700)]
memoir check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Mar 2023 05:34:01 +0000 (22:34 -0700)]
memoir: Sophia knows more statistics than me
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:35:13 +0000 (17:35 -0700)]
memoir: Sophia correspondence
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:33:51 +0000 (21:33 -0700)]
memoir: "Helen" and Sophia
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 17 Mar 2023 01:44:19 +0000 (18:44 -0700)]
memoir: secrets vs. spoilers
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Mar 2023 05:46:47 +0000 (22:46 -0700)]
diff column to wordcount CSV
We want four-figure diffs to be normal, not unusually good!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Mar 2023 05:38:41 +0000 (22:38 -0700)]
memoir: feminism consultation/counterfactual phone anxiety advice
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:44:42 +0000 (17:44 -0700)]
check in (incl. memoir—tap at December 2019 blogging spree)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:25:17 +0000 (13:25 -0700)]
memoir: "The AI Timelines Scam"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:16:29 +0000 (17:16 -0700)]
memoir: children's lessons without very advanced math
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:44:12 +0000 (15:44 -0700)]
some net tasks
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Mar 2023 06:38:54 +0000 (22:38 -0800)]
memoir: "nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 11 Mar 2023 05:40:25 +0000 (21:40 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 11 Mar 2023 05:28:42 +0000 (21:28 -0800)]
memoir: Eliezerfic fight (authorial fiat), poke at conclusion
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 10 Mar 2023 05:23:59 +0000 (21:23 -0800)]
memoir: Eliezerfic fight, cont'd
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Mar 2023 06:12:18 +0000 (22:12 -0800)]
memoir: "always a complicated person"
Separately from getting caught up in fighting on Less Wrong, I think
I've been self-deceiving about fitting in time to finish this §?
(Because it hurts to confront the part where I'm fighting Big Yud.)
The fact that I wrote committed this today is a good sign that I'm
facing the reality (even if a lot of the day's wordcount isn't "real"
because it's Discord blockquotes, and even part of the text that
isn't, is edited from Discord logs with Scott).
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Mar 2023 04:36:45 +0000 (20:36 -0800)]
memoir check-in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 7 Mar 2023 01:49:57 +0000 (17:49 -0800)]
memoir: "LessWrong.com is dead to me", pt. 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Mar 2023 19:15:26 +0000 (11:15 -0800)]
memoir: "Unnatural Categories" publication
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:34:15 +0000 (07:34 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 1 Mar 2023 04:18:40 +0000 (20:18 -0800)]
memoir: Eliezerfic fight poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:26:00 +0000 (12:26 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:11:41 +0000 (22:11 -0800)]
memoir: theory of conspiracies
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Feb 2023 02:47:09 +0000 (18:47 -0800)]
memoir: slapfight on "Yes Requires"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Feb 2023 05:40:23 +0000 (21:40 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Feb 2023 05:39:33 +0000 (21:39 -0800)]
memoir: New York
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Feb 2023 04:48:41 +0000 (20:48 -0800)]
memoir: the Death with Dignity era (plug §)
There's actually a lot more to be said here (about psychologically
preparing for the end, about better-prepared alternate worlds and the
profound silliness of the Asimov universe), but if I'm not immediately
sure how to say it, I think I'm OK with filling in the gap of this
TODO block (as forward progress towards a continuous ms. without gaps)
with the understanding that I can add more later if the structure
comes to me.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Feb 2023 20:34:02 +0000 (12:34 -0800)]
memoir: last email and not bothering him anymore
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Feb 2023 03:10:57 +0000 (19:10 -0800)]
memoir: "Autogenderphilia Is Common"
I was imagining just dumping the text of my draft into the memoir, but
it's too much of a digression; it does need to be a separate post.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:10:07 +0000 (22:10 -0800)]
memoir: Valinor before and after COVID
If I'm willing to give adults pseudonyms for political cover, then the
final version probably shouldn't use children's names at all—maybe not
even for their sake (as I do the moral accounting), but to look less
creepy to third-party readers. But we can cover that in a future edit
pass after privacy negotiations.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:53:24 +0000 (16:53 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:51:10 +0000 (16:51 -0800)]
memoir: October 2021 Discord parley with Scott
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:43:37 +0000 (16:43 -0800)]
memoir: date night in Cambridge, conclusion
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:26:17 +0000 (17:26 -0800)]
memoir: date night in Cambridge, pt. 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Feb 2023 04:43:46 +0000 (20:43 -0800)]
memoir: Facebook image receipts
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Feb 2023 03:29:55 +0000 (19:29 -0800)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 11 Feb 2023 05:28:03 +0000 (21:28 -0800)]
memoir: threats and timeless decision theory