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3 years agoArmistice Day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
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Armistice Day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

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3 years agodrafting "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"
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3 years ago"gender dysphoria" is fake and deserves scare quotes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Nov 2020 23:56:11 +0000 (15:56 -0800)]
"gender dysphoria" is fake and deserves scare quotes

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3 years agoadd Best-Of selection to About page
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3 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism" Monday evening poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:49:42 +0000 (22:49 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" Monday evening poke

Bluebird website is really bad for me—I want to finish this

3 years agoMonday morning drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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Monday morning drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

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3 years agopronoun glitch (on person! not gender! so it's OK)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 05:51:16 +0000 (21:51 -0800)]
pronoun glitch (on person! not gender! so it's OK)

3 years agofinish "The Feeling Is Mutual"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 04:26:10 +0000 (20:26 -0800)]
finish "The Feeling Is Mutual"

(I think this can basically be published whenever, but I'm not
thinking about scheduling now, I need to write "Sexual Dimorphism" in
the dying hours of this tragic Sunday)

3 years agoword choices; the badge trim refers to the social construct
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:57:52 +0000 (23:57 -0800)]
word choices; the badge trim refers to the social construct

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3 years ago"Two Political Short Stories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:44:15 +0000 (23:44 -0800)]
"Two Political Short Stories"

The first is from Facebook this time four years ago (thanks to the "On
This Day" notification feature!)—verbatim except with the replacement
of "Russian" for "Chinese". (At the time, we knew that Orange Man Bad,
but we didn't know that he was Putin's lapdog.)

3 years agotwo-types anchor in "... To Make Predictions"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 6 Nov 2020 06:54:24 +0000 (22:54 -0800)]
two-types anchor in "... To Make Predictions"

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4 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
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Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

4 years agofiller buffer: "Interlude XX"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 06:00:47 +0000 (23:00 -0700)]
filler buffer: "Interlude XX"

4 years agocan WNBA players take down a U.S. senator??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:19:20 +0000 (14:19 -0700)]
can WNBA players take down a U.S. senator??

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4 years agonibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agonibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": explaining high-dimensionality, again
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Oct 2020 06:44:01 +0000 (23:44 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": explaining high-dimensionality, again

(This is one of my standard points that I'm pretty practiced at
explaining—should I regret it being in the middle of a long post,
rather than making it an individually linkable standalone (like I did
for just the math part)?)

I'm pleased with the height → faces → FaceApp → morphic-adaptation
flow.

4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences": lead-in to mapping and coda
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:07:52 +0000 (14:07 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences": lead-in to mapping and coda

4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": category of personal identity, into conclusion
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:11:52 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": category of personal identity, into conclusion

4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": Sorites identity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:52:04 +0000 (10:52 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": Sorites identity

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4 years agoSunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 2
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Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 2

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4 years agoSunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 1
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Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 1

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4 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"
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Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"

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4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": morphic adaption unit specifications
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:31:54 +0000 (11:31 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": morphic adaption unit specifications

It's always hard to start writing, and it's especially hard to start
writing about this—but it's so important. To me.

4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:46:38 +0000 (10:46 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agopoke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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4 years agosome sketching out TODO skeleton for "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:08:13 +0000 (10:08 -0700)]
some sketching out TODO skeleton for "Sexual Dimorphism"

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 agonibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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4 years agoexplain comment syntax options
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4 years agodrafting "Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes"
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4 years agoself-deception hash-anchor in "Human Diversity" review
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self-deception hash-anchor in "Human Diversity" review

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 agostrip HTML inside <title> tags
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4 years agofinish and publish "Memento Mori"
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finish and publish "Memento Mori"

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4 years agoCurtis Yarvin robot cult quotepost
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Curtis Yarvin robot cult quotepost

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4 years agoday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agodown brightness, up contrast on descender handwriting sample
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down brightness, up contrast on descender handwriting sample

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4 years agopoke at "Memento Mori"
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4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:21:52 +0000 (22:21 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

4 years agoancillary pages for captions
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:19:52 +0000 (22:19 -0700)]
ancillary pages for captions

4 years agotap at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Aug 2020 22:23:59 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
tap at "Sexual Dimorphism"

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

4 years agodrafting "Memento Mori"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:48:20 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
drafting "Memento Mori"

4 years agodrafting "Memento Mori"; and, check in
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drafting "Memento Mori"; and, check in

4 years agotap at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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tap at "Sexual Dimorphism"

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).

4 years agotap at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:00:15 +0000 (00:00 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agoimporting another ancillary Diary entry
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importing another ancillary Diary entry

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This unfinished short story draft is from 2011—it might be worth
finishing!

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4 years agocheck in notes; nonconsensual puberty
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4 years agoproperly yank Irreversible Damage review stub to drafts
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:58:18 +0000 (13:58 -0700)]
properly yank Irreversible Damage review stub to drafts

It's supposed to be a draft, not finished and scheduled for 1 January
2021.

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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

Thanks to Facebook's "On This Day" notifications.

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4 years agodon't even Facebook
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don't even Facebook

4 years agogearing towards "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 08:07:48 +0000 (01:07 -0700)]
gearing towards "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agocheck in notes
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4 years agoupgrade links on "The Social Construction of Reality"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 03:29:16 +0000 (20:29 -0700)]
upgrade links on "The Social Construction of Reality"

4 years ago"Revenge, revenge, revenge—is the one thing on your mind"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 19:33:52 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
"Revenge, revenge, revenge—is the one thing on your mind"

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4 years agopriorities
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priorities

4 years agofinish and publish "Oceans Rise, Empires Fall"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 1 Jul 2020 06:16:25 +0000 (23:16 -0700)]
finish and publish "Oceans Rise, Empires Fall"