From 7b12b98b0a9cc2c3727849d011732e816954cc99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 07:21:21 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt | 1 + notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 6e9ef37..72196c2 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -531,3 +531,4 @@ Steve said it's funny that Ziz and I are ragequitting over opposite things, and > Katie quoting my comment: "Folks, I'm not sure it's feasible to have an intellectually-honest real-name public conversation about the etiology of MtF. If no one is willing to mention some of the key relevant facts, maybe it's less misleading to just say nothing.\" 01/15/2017 +> [I am actively hostile](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1164241431629721600) to neoreaction and the alt-right, routinely block such people from commenting on my Twitter feed, and make it clear that I do not welcome support from those quarters. Anyone insinuating otherwise is uninformed, or deceptive. diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md index 74331a9..905ee5c 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ _Literally_ all I'm asking for is for the branded systematically-correct-reasoni (2) "Woman" is a noun. (3) _Therefore_, you can't define "woman" any way you want without cognitive consequences. -Note, **(3) is _entirely compatible_ with trans women being women**. (I normally eschew the use of boldface in prose, but I'll make this concession to people's inability to read a post of this length.) The point is that if you want to claim that trans women are women, you need some sort of _argument_ for why that categorization makes sense in the context you want to use the word—why that map usefully reflects some relevant aspect of the territory. If you want to _argue_ that hormone replacement therapy constitutes an effective sex change, or that trans is a brain-intersex condition and the brain is the true referent of "gender", or that [coordination constraints on _shared_ categories](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests) [support the self-identification criterion](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/), that's fine, because those are _arguments_ that someone who initially disagreed with your categorization could _engage with on the merits_. In contrast, "I can define a word any way I want" is a denial of the possibility of merits. +Note, **(3) is _entirely compatible_ with trans women being women**. (I normally eschew the use of boldface in prose, but I'll make this concession to people's inability to read a post of this length.) The point is that if you want to claim that trans women are women, you need some sort of _argument_ for why that categorization makes sense in the context you want to use the word—why that map usefully reflects some relevant aspect of the territory. If you want to _argue_ that hormone replacement therapy constitutes an effective sex change, or that trans is a brain-intersex condition and the brain is the true referent of "gender", or that [coordination constraints on _shared_ categories](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests) [support the self-identification criterion](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/), that's fine, because those are _arguments_ that someone who initially disagreed with your categorization could _engage with on the merits_. In contrast, "I can define a word any way I want" can't be engaged with in the same way because it's a denial of the possibility of merits. ------ @@ -145,3 +145,5 @@ As I've observed, being famous must _suck_. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/ "People started threatening to use my bad reputation to discredit the communities I was in and the causes I cared about most." + + -- 2.17.1