From 1dcebd37bb8d81ef6be76948ccec5c9dfd0c92c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 20:01:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md | 5 ++-- notes/notes.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++- notes/post_ideas.txt | 7 +++-- ...exual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md | 5 +++- 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md b/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md index 3759276..f30b531 100644 --- a/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md +++ b/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ You know what this blog needs? _More vectors_. You know, like, [lists of numbers What was I thinking? Maybe I should just delete it all to spare myself the embarrassment. In any case, this is an information-theory fanblog now! Gender?—I barely _know_ her. -[start by saying it takes 40 bits, then introduce the mass function that lets you compresss] +Let _V_ be a random variable over the sample space {0,1}20, the twenty-dimensional space of binary vectors. -Let _V_ be a random variable over the sample space {0,1}20, the twenty-dimensional space of binary vectors, and suppose that P(V = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]) = ½, P(V = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]), and P(_V_ = _v_) = 0 for all other _v_ ∈ {0,1}20. + +and suppose that P(V = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]) = ½, P(V = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]), and P(_V_ = _v_) = 0 for all other _v_ ∈ {0,1}20. diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 03f76fb..9cebba7 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1571,6 +1571,11 @@ growth chart to keep the proselytizer attached to the religion by training them on interactions with outsiders being unpleasant +https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/SWraogEDJ6gocpvwa/on-the-care-and-feeding-of-young-rationalists + +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SqNvmwDxRibLXjMZN/and-say-no-more-of-it +> Anything done with an ulterior motive has to be done with a pure heart. + ----- smart fascism— @@ -1819,4 +1824,27 @@ https://archive.is/7Wolo https://americanmind.org/essays/children-and-transgenderism/ https://quillette.com/2019/09/24/no-one-is-born-in-the-wrong-body/ -> For instance, up until age 7, many children often believe that if a boy puts on a dress, he becomes a girl. +> For instance, up until age 7, many children often believe that if a boy puts on a dress, he _becomes_ a girl. + + +From "The Psychological Foundations of Culture"— +> This, of course, reflects folk biology, captured in the two dictionary definitions of innate as "present from birth" and as "intrinsic." Social constructivist arguments frequently take the form that because thus-and-such is absent at birth, or doesn't appear until after age seven, or until after puberty, it is obviously "learned" or "socially constructed." AS a result, a common, but generally irrelevant feature of "nativist" versus "environmentalist" debates is over what is "present from birth." This confuses (among other things) the question of whether something is expressed at the time of birth with whether there exists in the individual evolved devel- opmental mechanisms that may activate and organize the expression of an adaptation at some point in the life cycle. Developmental processes continue to bring additional adaptations on line (as well as remove them) at least until adulthood, and there is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that agedriven adaptive changes in psycho- logical architecture continue throughout adulthood (see, e.g., Daly & Wilson, 1988). Thus, just as teeth and breasts are absent at birth and develop later in an individual's life history, perceptual organization, domain-specific reasoning mechanisms, the language acquisition device, motivational organization, and many other intricate psychological adaptations mature and are elaborated in age-specific fashions that are not simply the product of the accumulation of "experience." Consequently, psychological adaptations may be developmentally timed to appear, disappear, or change operation to mesh with the changing demands of different age-specific tasks, such as parenting, emotional decoding of the mother's voice, language acquisition, species-appropriate song learning, and so on (Daly & Wilson, 1988; Fernald, this volume; Marler, 199 1; Newport, 1990). +> For any particular gender difference, many psy- chologists are interested in whether it was caused (1) by sexually monomorphic psy- chologies encountering differential treatment by the social world, or (2) by sexually differentiated developmental mechanisms encountering treatment from the social world, whether that treatment was uniform or differential. As interesting as this ques- tion may be, however, the fact that an expressed gender difference may first appear after birth, or even late in life, is evidence neither for nor against either of these views. + +Somni gets it! https://somnilogical.tumblr.com/post/189782657699/legally-blind + + +> Do you consent to peristalsis or apoptosis or the Krebs cycle? +https://www.reddit.com/r/GCdebatesQT/comments/glg1o7/qt_blind_spots_and_hypocrisy_in_gc_ideology/fqz1om6/ + + +https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/05/roth-castes-chimps-and-rangordnung/ +> The losers in this struggle may keep their actual gonads, but they lose their repeaters, i.e., the institutions which install values and beliefs in the young. + +religion security hole https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/05/two-kinds-of-repeaters/ + +https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-penn-law-professor-wants-to-make-america-white-again + +https://www.reddit.com/r/GCdebatesQT/comments/gmpzr4/gc_what_part_of_being_trans_do_you_consider_it/fr6ejj0/ + +https://tracieokeefe.com/autogynephilia-and-autoandrophilia-in-non-sex-and-gender-dysphoric-persons/ diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index f529b7a..237f1fe 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Main path (important posts)— _ theory of MMB's transition _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW) +_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW) _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW) _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title) @@ -22,6 +23,9 @@ _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title) +_ Gay + Trans = Straight +_ Too Big to Fail +_ Orc-ham's Razor _ Walker correspondence _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray) _ "I Hope You're Happy, California" @@ -35,8 +39,7 @@ _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Socia LW/aAL— -_ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization" -_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra + _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths) _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW) diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index fa681ff..f0a6c2e 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Easy— Harder— * "I often wish some men/women would appreciate" +* empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NLMo5FZWFFq652MNe/sympathetic-minds * "The Opposite Sex" (memoryholed, but there should be an archive) * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite) * wipe culturally defined values @@ -27,4 +28,6 @@ For example, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions -"It is said that parents do all the things they tell their children not to do, which is how they know not to do them." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DwtYPRuCxpXTrzG9m/my-wild-and-reckless-youth \ No newline at end of file +"It is said that parents do all the things they tell their children not to do, which is how they know not to do them." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DwtYPRuCxpXTrzG9m/my-wild-and-reckless-youth + +"don't ask me how I know this, and I won't tell you" https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/AeBfaMZt7e7ye38Hw/open-thread-november-1-15-2012#comment-ib37xYqDnJgxE285R -- 2.17.1