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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
memoir check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
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.