From 4f278202185cd8ca4a058ef5ad8266a192afc3ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 23:13:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in I think doing some quick outlining from memory to meet my daily wordcount goal is OK. (The outlining is genuinely somewhat useful, and it's not even a bad incentive, because the words "already there" from the outline are counting "against" future days' wordcount goals.) --- content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md | 11 ++++++++++- notes/memoir-sections.md | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md index 9a6e520..6e24fc6 100644 --- a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md +++ b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md @@ -277,7 +277,16 @@ I said that for me and my selfish perspective, the main outcome was finally shat ------- -[TODO: Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip; make sure to include the part about Michael threatening to sue] +[TODO: Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip + * Michael's "position" in the community, already not what it once was, was getting debased even further + * Berkeley REACH investigation; I asked what the charges were; they say it's not a court; I say _I_ don't feel safe in a place that bans Michael for no good reason + * Kelsey says in Discord that Michael is trying to get re-included + * I email her with quotes trying to argue that that's not his game + * She doesn't find the quotes convincing, because she thinks Vassar is a liar + * I call Ben to the stand, then Sarah ("You're a great prosecutor", I say in the channel) + * Kelsey in meatspace tells me that Vassar has a benefactor that she can't name; I'm retarded enough to not infer that it's him and she was obfuscating for compliance + ... +] ------- diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md index 86c7086..88864bb 100644 --- a/notes/memoir-sections.md +++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ marked TODO -_ Eliezerfic fight conclusion +- Eliezerfic fight conclusion _ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip _ psych ward @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ _ "Lenore" psychiatric disaster ------ With internet available— +_ Keltham/Peranza exam answer should link specific tags _ Slate Star Codex on patient's rights being adversarial system _ was the "People are better at taking care of each other than institutions!" thing in the morning of Feb 17?? KP visit log might confirm? _ Kirutsugu spelling @@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ _ Anna's claim that Scott was a target specifically because he was good, my coun _ Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy far editing tier— +_ footnote to explain that when I'm summarizing a long Discord conversation to taste, I might move things around into "logical" time rather than "real time"; e.g. Yudkowsky's "powerfully relevant" and "but Superman" comments were actually one right after the other; and, e.g., I'm filling in more details that didn't make it into the chat, like innate kung fu; and that the fact that I can "enhance" the summaries of my part, but the people I'm talking to don't have the same privilege, should be taken into account—actually, this covers a lot of the memoir; maybe I should mention this earlier (and again in a footnote??) _ Ruby fight: "forces of blandness want me gone ... stand my ground" remark _ "Even our pollution is beneficial" [pt. 6] _ Scott Aaronson on the blockchain of science [pt. 6] @@ -128,7 +130,6 @@ _ squeeze "Darkness and Light" into the Eliezerfic account _ clarify Sarah dropping out of the coordination group _ somewhere in dath ilan discussion: putting a wrapper on graphic porn is fine, de-listing Wikipedia articles is not _ maybe current-year LW would be better if more marginal cases _had_ bounced off because of e.g. sexism -_ footnote to explain that when I'm summarizing a long Discord conversation to taste, I might move things around into "logical" time rather than "real time"; e.g. Yudkowsky's "powerfully relevant" and "but Superman" comments were actually one right after the other; and, e.g., I'm filling in more details that didn't make it into the chat, like innate kung fu _ re "EY is a fraud": it's a _conditional_ that he can modus tollens if he wants _ NRx point about HBD being more than IQ, ties in with how I think the focus on IQ is distasteful, but I have political incentives to bring it up _ "arguing for a duty to self-censorship"—contrast to my "closing thoughts" email @@ -2459,3 +2460,7 @@ scared that my boss was coming to kill me https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1642908341327499264 [re identifying as a "decision theorist"] > it's a place where it would be easiest to defend, to my own satisfaction, and without a sense that I was even slightly misleading anyone, that I made a big damn contribution on at least the PhD level. + +Vanessa's comment about "I'm a woman in EA, and I don't get harrassed—maybe it's because I'm unattractive" deserves a "it's because you're not _female_" retort—not naming her and not linking the comment, but it does need to be said. + +"I could protest that the prompt didn't do enough to steer me away"—that's evidence _for_ the ITT (in contrast to my planned argument that the ITT is niche). (But the fact that I can recognize this in my own voice is evidence for my original thesis?? -- 2.17.1