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5 years agopoking at "I Tell Myself" notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:05:02 +0000 (09:05 -0800)]
poking at "I Tell Myself" notes

I need to work on this every day until it's finished, even if it
hurts, even if it makes me late for my dayjob

5 years agobetter outlining technique
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:48:10 +0000 (08:48 -0800)]
better outlining technique

Putting these bracketed stubs will make it easier for me to zero in on
filling them in without getting lost or being constrained to write
linearly

5 years agoI ineffectually tell myself to write
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 4 Nov 2019 16:04:53 +0000 (08:04 -0800)]
I ineffectually tell myself to write

I really need to step it up into actually-writing every day in
November so that I can have closure

5 years agoI tell myself to write
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 3 Nov 2019 07:34:26 +0000 (00:34 -0700)]
I tell myself to write

If I can manage to write something every day in November, then I can
finish telling the Whole Dumb Story and move on with my life

5 years agocheck in notes
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5 years agoat least poking at "'I Tell Myself' ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:09:48 +0000 (23:09 -0700)]
at least poking at "'I Tell Myself' ..."

The pain won't go away until you write about it.

5 years ago"game theory of stigmatization" rough draft from SEXNET
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:26:02 +0000 (14:26 -0700)]
"game theory of stigmatization" rough draft from SEXNET

I just sent this as a message to SEXNET (in a thread about Tail's
complaint against /r/itsafetish:
ttps://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/its-a-hate-sub/), but it
could be cleaned up into a proper blog post.

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This has not been as good of a writing day as Sunday is meant to be.

5 years agodrafting "On the Argumentative Form ..."
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5 years agodrafting "'I Tell Myself ...'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 06:06:17 +0000 (23:06 -0700)]
drafting "'I Tell Myself ...'"

I might be getting past the special block. (Writing is still hard, but
I might be to the point of it just being ordinary-hard, rather than
special-heartbreak hard.)

5 years agobackport "categorization" tag
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:38:08 +0000 (20:38 -0700)]
backport "categorization" tag

5 years agoZinnia Jones went offline
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:33:04 +0000 (20:33 -0700)]
Zinnia Jones went offline

It's tempting to say something snide here like, "And good riddance!"
but maybe that's too mean even for a commit message that almost no one
is actually going to read. (Who reads the commit messages for a
blog!?) It's a tragedy for the commons when someone's site goes down
(https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs)!

5 years agofinish and publish "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:32:03 +0000 (20:32 -0700)]
finish and publish "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"

5 years agostarting to get unblocked on grief blogging?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Oct 2019 17:57:11 +0000 (10:57 -0700)]
starting to get unblocked on grief blogging?

I managed to write a little bit yesterday, despite mostly wallowing in
distraction

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5 years agodrafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
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drafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"

5 years agobriefly drafting "Schelling Point" in the morning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Oct 2019 15:28:59 +0000 (08:28 -0700)]
briefly drafting "Schelling Point" in the morning

5 years agonibble
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5 years agodrafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
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drafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"

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5 years agofinished (?) draft of "... on Fully Consensual Gender"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Sep 2019 06:01:38 +0000 (23:01 -0700)]
finished (?) draft of "... on Fully Consensual Gender"

Took a while to push this one up to the finish line! (Not over it yet;
there might be some strategic scheduling decisions vis-à-vis other
posts.)

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5 years agotech: don't cache HTML
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Sep 2019 02:03:22 +0000 (19:03 -0700)]
tech: don't cache HTML

Thanks to
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/
how-to-implement-browser-caching-with-nginx-s-header-module-on-centos-7
for teaching.

5 years ago"Terminology Proposal: 'Developmental Sex'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:30:29 +0000 (18:30 -0700)]
"Terminology Proposal: 'Developmental Sex'"

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5 years agoadd footnote crediting Tail for bugfix
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:08:17 +0000 (20:08 -0700)]
add footnote crediting Tail for bugfix

5 years agofix sign error in "Does General Intelligence ...?" code
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:00:38 +0000 (20:00 -0700)]
fix sign error in "Does General Intelligence ...?" code

Thanks to Tailcalled for catching this—it didn't materially affect the
results (up to random noise) because I'm comparing distributions
centered at 1 with others centered at zero (and anything minus zero is
the thing), but geez, this was embarrassing!

5 years agoI tell myself to let the story end
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:44:57 +0000 (22:44 -0700)]
I tell myself to let the story end

5 years agodrafting "I Tell Myself ...", sort of
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:10:41 +0000 (08:10 -0700)]
drafting "I Tell Myself ...", sort of

I spent most of yesterday in cowardice and pain and hiding, but I
might have done a very small amount of writing (though I think most of
this diff is just moving quotes into the text file from the notes
file?)

5 years ago"I Tell Myself ..." full slug filename
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:35:01 +0000 (11:35 -0700)]
"I Tell Myself ..." full slug filename

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5 years agoslight blogroll maintenance
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:27:37 +0000 (22:27 -0700)]
slight blogroll maintenance

A reader pointed out that Social Justice Wizard's blog had gone dark
(and he was never that cool, anyway).

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5 years agocopying in some notes from old conversation with "Wilhelm"
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copying in some notes from old conversation with "Wilhelm"

5 years agocheck in—for the night
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(And who can say but that I'll actually get a lot done tomorrow?)

5 years agoactually, move the Jensen footnote location
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 06:00:53 +0000 (23:00 -0700)]
actually, move the Jensen footnote location

(It's also relevant for lending plausibility to the "sex differences
in special factor" idea.)

5 years agoCSS workaround for Pygments bug (Python 3 can too lex Unicode variables)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 05:49:17 +0000 (22:49 -0700)]
CSS workaround for Pygments bug (Python 3 can too lex Unicode variables)

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5 years agopublish "Does General Intelligence ...?"
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5 years agocheck in the script for "Does General Intelligence ...?"
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5 years agodraft: "Does General Intelligence Deflate ...?"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Aug 2019 16:55:29 +0000 (09:55 -0700)]
draft: "Does General Intelligence Deflate ...?"

I sent this as a message to SEXNET (maybe someone—maybe even del
Guidice himself—will have comments?), but it might also make a good
blog post later.

5 years agofinish and schedule "A Love ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:07:08 +0000 (01:07 -0700)]
finish and schedule "A Love ..."

5 years ago"psychological" → "personality"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 21 Aug 2019 05:56:05 +0000 (22:56 -0700)]
"psychological" → "personality"

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5 years agopublish "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."
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publish "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."

5 years agodrafting "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."
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drafting "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."

5 years agodrafting "A Love ..."
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drafting "A Love ..."

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5 years agoTwitter suicide cache
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5 years ago"The Source of Our Power"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 May 2019 06:29:04 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
"The Source of Our Power"

5 years agocheck in: hopefully it for May
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 13 May 2019 00:04:03 +0000 (17:04 -0700)]
check in: hopefully it for May

May is Math and Wellness Month and I don't want to be thinking about
all this, so hopefully I've written enough notes down such that I feel
expurgiated—I don't have to keep obsessively thinking about the thing
if I can trust that I've written down enough notes that I can pick up
again in June when I'm healthier and less heartbroken

(Times this commit has been `--amend`ed counter: 4)

5 years ago"Hiatus"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 2 May 2019 05:12:45 +0000 (22:12 -0700)]
"Hiatus"

5 years agodrafting "'I Tell Myself'"
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drafting "'I Tell Myself'"

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5 years ago"Where to Draw the Boundaries?" linkpost
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"Where to Draw the Boundaries?" linkpost

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5 years agoand one more thing
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and one more thing

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Hopefully checking in the notes for "Social Strategy Notes" for some
future contiguous writing day will help me stop obsessing and let me
focus for the next week, which is supposed to be about code.

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5 years agocheck in notes and Twitter fantasy edits
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5 years ago"Use It or Lose It"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Jan 2019 07:07:40 +0000 (23:07 -0800)]
"Use It or Lose It"

5 years agobetter post spacing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:58:20 +0000 (17:58 -0800)]
better post spacing

I was eager to just shove stuff out the door, but the point of filler
posts is to provide a more regular update schedule when you can't
manage that with effortposting

5 years agoqueue Interludes XVI–XVIII
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:03:06 +0000 (17:03 -0800)]
queue Interludes XVI–XVIII

5 years agodrafting "Social Strategy Notes"
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drafting "Social Strategy Notes"

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5 years agocache a Tweet thread for August
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cache a Tweet thread for August

5 years agodrafting "The Social Construction of Reality"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 03:52:11 +0000 (19:52 -0800)]
drafting "The Social Construction of Reality"

5 years ago"The Dialectic": adjust the progressive narrative paraphrase
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:32:06 +0000 (17:32 -0800)]
"The Dialectic": adjust the progressive narrative paraphrase

If "small effect size" is the Hydeian counter-counternarrative, then
the level-one narrative shouldn't talk about them.