M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 13 Feb 2022 02:50:03 +0000 (18:50 -0800)]
bulleted summary for "Challenges"
I might ask for feedback from counsel and a hostile prereader before
doing an edit pass?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 12 Feb 2022 23:58:10 +0000 (15:58 -0800)]
gapless draft of "Challenges"
Okay! Now I just need to write the summary bullet points (already
started in realtime, if not "Git time", thanks to the Git staging area
and `git add -p`), and do an edit pass, and then I can ask counsel for
political advice on how to publish this thing. (And I need advice,
given how back-and-forth my intuitions are; today I'm not feeling as
hot on the coda-as-LessWrong-comment idea I was talking up in a recent
commit message.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:35:32 +0000 (22:35 -0800)]
tap
It's late on a lazy Friday, but tomorrow! We can finish this!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 12 Feb 2022 04:46:44 +0000 (20:46 -0800)]
I may have figured out what to do with the "Challenges" coda
Maybe the coda that I didn't want to be part of the main post (because
it was too aggressive, and the Whole Dumb Story kept leaking out into
it) can just be a long comment on the Less Wrong linkpost version.
Then it can be optimized as an explanation why my robot cultists
should care—the main post attacks Yudkowsky's performance, but the
comment can tone the aggression down a bit (needs much editing from
current draft!) while explaining why I think it is a performance—the
explanation of bad faith and the nearest-unblocked strategy game is
something I think they need to hear, and explaining the game here
feels less like spoiling the separate Whole Dumb Story post.
Deconstructing the "Aristotelian binary" snark is better scoped to the
Whole Dumb Story (as explaining why I flipped out in December 2018,
whereas "Challenges" is just addressing the February 2021 post, and
the postscript is just addressing Kolmogorov disclaimer.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:34:22 +0000 (09:34 -0800)]
rhetorical ? is less hypocritical than playing dumb; no promises
I don't want to be open to the charge of playing dumb myself when I
claim not to know how to interpret those words. I can think of other
interpretations!—I just think they're strained and ad hoc, and the
rhetorical question points at this better than claiming ignorance.
I can reference the existence of the Whole Dumb Story without
committing to finish and publish it.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 9 Feb 2022 02:42:21 +0000 (18:42 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 8 Feb 2022 02:40:22 +0000 (18:40 -0800)]
elide the attack in closing graf
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 8 Feb 2022 02:21:31 +0000 (18:21 -0800)]
flip-flop on scope of "Challenges", again?!
I just saw some Tweet's about MIT philosopher Alex Bryne's new paper
on pronouns, and it makes me feel inspired to get the object-level
finished and published quickly, rather than floundering with the
Impossible-level challenge of my Whole Dumb Story.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Feb 2022 18:24:06 +0000 (10:24 -0800)]
"Challenges": can't afford to ack real empirical reason
Today I'm again flip-flop leaning towards chopping off "Challenges" at
"can't say I wasn't warned", and putting the heavy bad-faith stuff
into "Hill", or possibly a third post?
But again, it's too early to throw in the towel of fatigue just yet; I
can keep drafting to try to make this the best post it can be as
currently envisioned, and then beg counsel for advice on how to split
it up and polish it for public consumption.
Maybe timebox it? What can I come up with before the end of February?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Feb 2022 23:35:14 +0000 (15:35 -0800)]
Sunday drafting "Challenges": protons
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Feb 2022 04:13:17 +0000 (20:13 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Challenges"
I started too late in the day and checked Twitter too much, but I did
end up shaping some paragraphs?
The challenge level of this writing task is impossible (when you
strike at a king, you must kill him) and I feel like I'm never going
to finish. But I don't need to think about publishing yet—I can even
draft this and "A Hill" in parallel and show them both to counsel
before pulling the trigger on publishing! How many more weeks could
that take?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 5 Feb 2022 23:14:39 +0000 (15:14 -0800)]
check in, with no time to lose
I haven't been brave enough to write, and it's already past fifteen on
a Saturday. Can I make up for lost time?
I don't need to be scared. For now, I'm writing for myself, and I'll
let counsel advise me on whether to pull the trigger on
publishing. But first, I need something to show counsel.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 5 Feb 2022 18:08:51 +0000 (10:08 -0800)]
changed my mind again re: scope of "Challenges"
I think I was (still) flinching away from attacking the Caliph; and
because of that, I thought the analysis of politics belongs in the
somber memoir-post, rather than this critical post. But there's just
so much good stuff in this coda, and it is focused on the comments on
the Feburary '21 post, so it belong here. My job now is to make this
the best draft post it can be; I can always soften it or hold back
parts of it later, on advice of counsel.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Feb 2022 18:39:44 +0000 (10:39 -0800)]
check in; yank extended political analysis from "Challenges" to "Hill"
Today I'm feeling like the really heavy bad-faith stuff belongs in a
dedicated capstone post, not as a coda to my not letting him have the
last word about pronoun conventions.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Feb 2022 20:09:30 +0000 (12:09 -0800)]
check in notes: yank 50% prediction comment to email draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Feb 2022 20:09:18 +0000 (12:09 -0800)]
nibble at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 31 Jan 2022 22:00:58 +0000 (14:00 -0800)]
"Challenges": bridge to summary of the Whole Dumb Story
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 31 Jan 2022 04:04:28 +0000 (20:04 -0800)]
Sunday drafting "Challenges": pro- and anti-social bad faith gambits
I got distracted by Twitter today, but I also got some writing done.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Jan 2022 05:09:50 +0000 (21:09 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Challenges" (session 2): outlining ahead
largely generating rough text that I can continue to sculpt into
better paragraphs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:53:55 +0000 (11:53 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Challenges" (session 1): on bad faith
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Jan 2022 06:41:36 +0000 (22:41 -0800)]
check in for a clean slate tomorrow
I had a critical wilpower failure today. Tomorrow is All Writing.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:30:34 +0000 (10:30 -0800)]
Friday morning drafting "Challenges": bad faith
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:38:48 +0000 (23:38 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:31:07 +0000 (23:31 -0800)]
Thursday evening drafting "Challenges"
Is 500 words a good day? (If the day also includes an honest day's
dayjobbing and a _Star Trek: Prodigy_ watchparty?)
No. A good day is when we finish and publish this albatross.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:56:34 +0000 (11:56 -0800)]
Thursday morning drafting "Challenges": "A Rational Argument"
Last Thursday went OK (between writing and dayjob and takeout and
_Star Trek: Prodigy_) and there's still time for this one to be even
better, not just "OK"!!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:38:53 +0000 (08:38 -0800)]
check in for clean repo for more progress
If Wednesday was meh in several ways, that says nothing about today!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:32:22 +0000 (11:32 -0800)]
Tuesday morning drafting "Challenges"
Keep the momentum
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:39:05 +0000 (10:39 -0800)]
Monday morning drafting "Challenges"
A new week! We can finish this, and perform well at my dayjob
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Jan 2022 06:45:33 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
"Challenges": a couple tweaks before retiring for the night
The prime symbol doesn't actually seem to render differently from the
apostrophe (and actually makes searching-in-file for that passage a
lot harder), but it's the principle of the thing.
Don't overload the word "reasons" in the same sentence.
"Simultaneously ... also" is less redundantly pleonastic than
"Simultaneously ... at the same time".
The "psychologically abusive" charge is entirely justified.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Jan 2022 06:04:09 +0000 (22:04 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Challenges"
There was a lot of goofing off today, but also a decent amount of
writing—I have the shape of where I want the coda to go, and found a
solution for how to keep the scope of this piece narrow (rather than
hints of the Whole Dumb Story to be told in "Hill of Validity" leaking
out here)
I ordered pizza but I deserved it
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:30:00 +0000 (08:30 -0800)]
check in (clean slate for Saturday)
I had a lot of trouble doing things yesterday; chores are piling up,
and I even still have some dayjob work that it would be embarrassing
to not have finished by Monday morning. But Today could be
Different. Will Today be Different? O future reader of `git log`, you
know the answer! Some would say that, in my own way, so do I.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:56:58 +0000 (23:56 -0800)]
Thursday evening poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:31:29 +0000 (10:31 -0800)]
Thursday morning drafting "Challenges"
Okay, we did a little bit of writing here, and then I'm going to work
really hard at my dayjob all day, and then I'll get some more writing
done in the evening, and then I can celebrate by eating Chinese food
and watching _Star Trek: Prodigy_. It's going to be great!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Jan 2022 07:04:03 +0000 (23:04 -0800)]
poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:21:50 +0000 (09:21 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:15:23 +0000 (12:15 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:10:14 +0000 (08:10 -0800)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:10:46 +0000 (20:10 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 13 Jan 2022 03:24:40 +0000 (19:24 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:09:32 +0000 (08:09 -0800)]
"Challenges": narrow the scope like a coward? Or ...
Once again, I'm in the same state that I was while finishing up
"Sexual Dimorphism": I impatiently feel like I want to dump the Whole
Dumb Story (of my gender and language war against the so-called
"rationalists" over the last five years) in the final section of the
post so I can get it out of my system and move on with my life, but
ultimately, that feels reckless.
In order to actually get it out of system, I need to do the Whole Dumb
Story right, rather than tacked on to an object-level post criticism
...
Or maybe my real problem is that I'm being pretty seriously hampered
by my cult hero-worship psychology. There might be a way of dealing
with that?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:04:31 +0000 (00:04 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges"
I just want to be finished; I've been stuck in this pit for years; I
could write endlessly—do I timebox it? Anything I don't manage to
write by the end of January or February can't have mattered much?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:42:22 +0000 (11:42 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges"
I'm proud of the "billionaire" example, but I also really want to get
this finished!!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:35:18 +0000 (11:35 -0800)]
outlining "Challenges" coda
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 10 Jan 2022 07:33:16 +0000 (23:33 -0800)]
a bad day
I wanted to work on the post today, but I wasn't brave enough.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Jan 2022 05:24:04 +0000 (21:24 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges"
It was tough to get started, but eventually I got moving. I want to
hit a note that's forceful but not bitter. I'm not trying to hurt Big
Yud; I'm just trying to explain what I think is actually going on.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 8 Jan 2022 03:32:56 +0000 (19:32 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 6 Jan 2022 18:39:58 +0000 (10:39 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges"
I feel unblocked now, but what would feel even better would be to be
done
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 6 Jan 2022 05:50:34 +0000 (21:50 -0800)]
pull out the flower-break class again
I don't want to put my courtroom story in a blockquote because it's
not a quote.
(And, while copying the tag, correcting some unnecessarily smart
apostrophes)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:43:29 +0000 (10:43 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges"
Okay, this is coming together—the specific non-exaggerated personal
examples (HRT experiment was good, pronoun experiment would not be
good) are much more compelling than "cutting dick off" flamebait.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 4 Jan 2022 17:11:24 +0000 (09:11 -0800)]
skeleton for remainder of "Challenges"
I was pretty lazy for the second half of 2021, but let's turn it
around; I can do this; I can finish the piece and work towards moving
on with my life even though the rationalists are Dead To Me and it
still stings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 4 Jan 2022 04:03:46 +0000 (20:03 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Jan 2022 04:38:09 +0000 (20:38 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges"
A lot of trouble getting started today, but I did do something—the new
year isn't totally shot
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Jan 2022 23:17:00 +0000 (15:17 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:21:36 +0000 (22:21 -0800)]
Tuesday evening
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:03:55 +0000 (11:03 -0800)]
Tuesday morning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:18:52 +0000 (10:18 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
Net 520 words in the hour before dayjob—I had been dead and
despairing, but then I remembered my righteous fury and leaned into
it, and honestly it's better this way
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:13:52 +0000 (20:13 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:43:24 +0000 (10:43 -0800)]
drafting AGenP reply
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:52:01 +0000 (21:52 -0800)]
drafting reply to S.A. on AGenP, cont'd
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:35:08 +0000 (13:35 -0800)]
drafting reply to Scott on AGenP
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Dec 2021 06:22:23 +0000 (22:22 -0800)]
xmas check in ...
2021 is basically over—I've been pretty useless for basically the
second half of this year. Does that change?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:30:19 +0000 (19:30 -0800)]
tap ...
Still in a psychological slump today
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:45:43 +0000 (09:45 -0800)]
Thursday's tap at "Challenges"
spent a lot of yesterday playing Slay the Spire :/
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:17:39 +0000 (11:17 -0800)]
Monday morning tap at "Challenges"
We can do this
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Dec 2021 07:06:30 +0000 (23:06 -0800)]
Sunday tap at "Challenges"
Why is this dumb exhaustive post taking forever? I'm such a bad writer
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Dec 2021 18:43:22 +0000 (10:43 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Dec 2021 03:40:12 +0000 (19:40 -0800)]
drafting reply to Scott on AGenP
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:04:17 +0000 (16:04 -0800)]
check in, incl. new attempt at explaining to Scott
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Dec 2021 05:00:54 +0000 (21:00 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Dec 2021 05:00:22 +0000 (21:00 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Dec 2021 19:28:30 +0000 (11:28 -0800)]
Wednesday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 7 Dec 2021 19:08:19 +0000 (11:08 -0800)]
Tuesday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Dec 2021 19:01:01 +0000 (11:01 -0800)]
Monday morning tap at "Challenges"
Last week's "write every morning" campaign didn't end up sticking past
Tuesday, but maybe it'll stick this week?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Dec 2021 23:00:57 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:03:53 +0000 (10:03 -0800)]
Tuesday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:40:19 +0000 (10:40 -0800)]
Monday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:33:26 +0000 (10:33 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Nov 2021 06:28:57 +0000 (22:28 -0800)]
ineffective Sunday tap at "Challenges"
I just was not effective today!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:15:07 +0000 (09:15 -0800)]
tap at "Challenges"
Managed to "get started" with this yesterday and a minute ago, but
let's clear off the staging area and actually have a solid writing day
today! No time to waste.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 Nov 2021 02:16:17 +0000 (18:16 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:17:04 +0000 (21:17 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Nov 2021 15:40:11 +0000 (07:40 -0800)]
Monday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Nov 2021 03:00:06 +0000 (19:00 -0800)]
tap at "Challenges"
I've been having trouble Doing Things lately. This is a pretty poor
output for having an entire Sunday to myself. Maybe I can ramp
up—write a little bit every day, until I finally finish this and "A
Hill of Validity", and then I can move on with my life and not carry
this psychic scars around all the time.
Maybe I'll get in another small commit later tonight?!—even if my
dream of a big Writing Day was a lie.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Nov 2021 16:02:19 +0000 (08:02 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:23:11 +0000 (12:23 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Oct 2021 23:38:29 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
check in (incl. rename finale notes file)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:59:05 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Oct 2021 04:31:44 +0000 (21:31 -0700)]
poke at "Challenges", "Never Smile" linkpost
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Oct 2021 23:48:25 +0000 (16:48 -0700)]
poke at "A Previous Life's War"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Oct 2021 23:33:41 +0000 (16:33 -0700)]
still reading the Gender Development text; and, some old evidence
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:30:03 +0000 (11:30 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 3 Oct 2021 02:01:24 +0000 (19:01 -0700)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Oct 2021 22:09:03 +0000 (15:09 -0700)]
Gender Development textbook notetaking
This is still a good textbook! Marginal notetaking progress is better
than slacking off entirely, but it's not what I'm supposed to be doing
with prime Saturday writing hours.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Oct 2021 21:43:40 +0000 (14:43 -0700)]
Closetspace—and how did I miss this one about Allison?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Oct 2021 15:16:48 +0000 (08:16 -0700)]
check in
Saturday! Need to get in a big writing day today!!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:36:39 +0000 (09:36 -0700)]
"Blood Is Thicker Than Water" linkpost
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:06:05 +0000 (22:06 -0700)]
schedule "I Don't Do Policy"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:50:45 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:02:18 +0000 (22:02 -0700)]
publish "There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Sep 2021 03:03:47 +0000 (20:03 -0700)]
xrossover fic tail speculation
I haven't been motivated to do anything today. Tomorrow needs to be a
big writing day—the last day of my vacation. If I want to make it
count, I should finish this up, get a lot of hacking into "Challenges"
and possibly the Facing Reality review, and schedule this and "I Don't
Do Policy."