From 0289dee2ddaf0993507f6c34701190b152ba8515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:44:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] =?utf8?q?memoir:=20zinger=20cap=20to=20Christmas=202019?= =?utf8?q?=20=C2=A7?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 4 ++++ notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md | 1 - 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md index a400b5f..a613dcd 100644 --- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md @@ -969,6 +969,10 @@ Ben wrote: Or, I pointed out, (c) I had ceded the territory of the interior of my own mind _to Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular_, and while I had made a lot of progress unwinding this, I was still, still not done, and seeing him at the Newtonmas party set me back a bit. +Secret posse member reassured me that finishing the memoir privately would be clarifying and cathartic _for me_. If people in the Caliphate came to their senses, I could either not publish it, or give it a happy ending where everyone comes to their senses. + +(It does not, actually, have a happy ending where everyone comes to their senses.) + ------- There's another extremely important part of the story that _would_ fit around here chronologically, but I again find myself constrained by privacy norms: everyone's common sense of decency (this time, even including my own) screams that it's not my story to tell. diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index f5452b3..4e3abb6 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ _ dath ilan conspiracy references far editing tier— -_ rewrite end of Christmas 2019 § with "optimistic about not needing to finish it", and then, "(It does not have a happy ending.)" _ post-Christmas conversation should do a better job of capturing the war, that Jessica thinks Scott is Bad for being a psychiatrist _ conversation with Scott should include the point where I'm trying to do AI theory _ Anna "everyone knows" we don't have free speech 2 Mar 2019, self-centeredness about which global goods matter -- 2.17.1