M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 7 Dec 2019 16:52:04 +0000 (08:52 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 1: blegg networks
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 7 Dec 2019 15:31:33 +0000 (07:31 -0800)]
last Friday night
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 6 Dec 2019 16:33:10 +0000 (08:33 -0800)]
poke at stuff in the morning
How deadly is the lack of a commit yesterday? Can we hope that it was
an anomaly—that the Schelling–Ainslie timeless-decision-theoretic
model of procrastination is wrong?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 4 Dec 2019 17:10:44 +0000 (09:10 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" morning drafting
Disappointing that I didn't write last night, and this morning hasn't
been so hot, either—but I can at least go to my dayjob and not feel
subhuman.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 4 Dec 2019 15:21:21 +0000 (07:21 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Dec 2019 16:54:39 +0000 (08:54 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" morning drafting session: my world, arguments, fraud
I think I'll do better at my dayjob today having the sense that I'm
making progress here!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Dec 2019 07:40:47 +0000 (23:40 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Dec 2019 07:40:18 +0000 (23:40 -0800)]
drafting "I Tell Myself": modus ponens, what I think is going on
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Dec 2019 03:49:12 +0000 (19:49 -0800)]
ragequit motivations
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Dec 2019 06:57:27 +0000 (22:57 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Dec 2019 00:38:40 +0000 (16:38 -0800)]
paste "My Price for Joining" into the main thread
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Dec 2019 00:09:49 +0000 (16:09 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 4
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 22:52:55 +0000 (14:52 -0800)]
ready?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 22:13:46 +0000 (14:13 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 3
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 21:12:15 +0000 (13:12 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 20:41:22 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
I want to see me be brave
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 17:20:16 +0000 (09:20 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 02:34:55 +0000 (18:34 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:43:03 +0000 (08:43 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Thursday morning drafting session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:01:03 +0000 (08:01 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Thursday morning drafting session 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:01:12 +0000 (10:01 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Wednesday morning drafting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:57:11 +0000 (08:57 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" note scraps from last night
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:33:59 +0000 (09:33 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Monday morning drafting before dayjob
I'll be a bit late, but I could argue that it's actually worth it from
my employer's perspective that I come in to work ready to focus rather
than being in pain because I haven't written anything.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:01:45 +0000 (07:01 -0800)]
"I Tell" check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:26:31 +0000 (06:26 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:56:23 +0000 (22:56 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:55:47 +0000 (22:55 -0800)]
merge branch 'i_tell-17_Nov'
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:50:03 +0000 (22:50 -0800)]
move "Failed Utopia #4-2" commentary into draft proper; tag spree
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 02:16:26 +0000 (18:16 -0800)]
notes, tidying, call the shot for new sections
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 01:36:58 +0000 (17:36 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 5: on fame
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:54:11 +0000 (16:54 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 4: "kind of obvious, really"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:31:09 +0000 (15:31 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 3: on the verthandi
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:27:23 +0000 (13:27 -0800)]
check in
I got distracted by the internet and local news, but writing is really
important so I can finally be at peace!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:11:41 +0000 (10:11 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:41:03 +0000 (09:41 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 1
I really want to get this done within a month so that I can move on
with my life! Suppose I write every day (including fanatically on free
days like this) and have a complete draft by 15 December. Then I can
offer pre-publication right-of-reply to key persons and publish on 4
January?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 07:36:17 +0000 (23:36 -0800)]
check in
tomorrow, perhaps, I will be brave enough to write for real
or else
I will never stop being in pain
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 15 Nov 2019 04:18:13 +0000 (20:18 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:20:07 +0000 (14:20 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:49:01 +0000 (21:49 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Nov 2019 21:47:36 +0000 (13:47 -0800)]
small commit
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Nov 2019 17:03:13 +0000 (09:03 -0800)]
tidy notes a bit?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Nov 2019 07:22:20 +0000 (23:22 -0800)]
I am in so much psychological pain all the time
and it's never going to stop until I write it down
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
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
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
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Nov 2019 19:47:25 +0000 (12:47 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:13:33 +0000 (23:13 -0700)]
check in
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.
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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:08:05 +0000 (11:08 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 21 Oct 2019 04:59:00 +0000 (21:59 -0700)]
check in
This has not been as good of a writing day as Sunday is meant to be.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:05:10 +0000 (20:05 -0700)]
drafting "On the Argumentative Form ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Oct 2019 15:54:24 +0000 (08:54 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 06:07:41 +0000 (23:07 -0700)]
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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.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:38:08 +0000 (20:38 -0700)]
backport "categorization" tag
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)!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:32:03 +0000 (20:32 -0700)]
finish and publish "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 5 Oct 2019 15:48:51 +0000 (08:48 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Oct 2019 07:02:48 +0000 (00:02 -0700)]
drafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Oct 2019 15:28:59 +0000 (08:28 -0700)]
briefly drafting "Schelling Point" in the morning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Oct 2019 05:52:25 +0000 (22:52 -0700)]
nibble
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:29:17 +0000 (21:29 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:28:36 +0000 (21:28 -0700)]
drafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Sep 2019 06:11:13 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
check in
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.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:25:55 +0000 (12:25 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Sep 2019 06:17:44 +0000 (23:17 -0700)]
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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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:30:29 +0000 (18:30 -0700)]
"Terminology Proposal: 'Developmental Sex'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Sep 2019 17:25:11 +0000 (10:25 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:06:38 +0000 (08:06 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:08:17 +0000 (20:08 -0700)]
add footnote crediting Tail for bugfix
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!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:44:57 +0000 (22:44 -0700)]
I tell myself to let the story end
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?)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:35:01 +0000 (11:35 -0700)]
"I Tell Myself ..." full slug filename
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:07:01 +0000 (11:07 -0700)]
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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).
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:07:41 +0000 (22:07 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 07:01:59 +0000 (00:01 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 23:38:33 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
copying in some notes from old conversation with "Wilhelm"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 06:20:39 +0000 (23:20 -0700)]
check in—for the night
(And who can say but that I'll actually get a lot done tomorrow?)
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.)
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)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 05:48:54 +0000 (22:48 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 05:48:22 +0000 (22:48 -0700)]
publish "Does General Intelligence ...?"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Sep 2019 18:50:38 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:13:31 +0000 (10:13 -0700)]
check in the script for "Does General Intelligence ...?"
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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:07:08 +0000 (01:07 -0700)]
finish and schedule "A Love ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 21 Aug 2019 05:56:05 +0000 (22:56 -0700)]
"psychological" → "personality"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 21 Aug 2019 04:55:51 +0000 (21:55 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:58:47 +0000 (23:58 -0700)]
publish "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:49:21 +0000 (23:49 -0700)]
drafting "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:12:56 +0000 (21:12 -0700)]
drafting "A Love ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:56:23 +0000 (09:56 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Aug 2019 06:00:10 +0000 (23:00 -0700)]
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