From aef2d79afbf3801d5784ca0f563df40d11a5fb99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:21:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/2017/interlude-x.md | 2 +- ...secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md | 14 +++++++++++++- ...s-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md | 2 +- notes/notes.txt | 2 ++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 4 +++- 5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/2017/interlude-x.md b/content/2017/interlude-x.md index f427dba..614ff18 100644 --- a/content/2017/interlude-x.md +++ b/content/2017/interlude-x.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Interlude X Date: 2017-11-27 05:00 Category: fiction -Tags: cathartic, interlude +Tags: cathartic, interlude, probability "Likelihood ratios are good! Likelihood ratios are the only good thing!" diff --git a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md index 7a7a1c5..1420804 100644 --- a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md +++ b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md @@ -4,10 +4,22 @@ Category: fiction Tags: deniably allegorical Status: draft -In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west valley ground squirrels and the east valley tree squirrels: numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectivelyâI remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which. +In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west-valley ground squirrels and the east-valley tree squirrelsânumbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively: I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which. + +Like many pre-intelligent creatures, both subspecies of Plain Speech Valley squirrels were highly social animals. Much of their social lives + + +(well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-than-was would be sparked by the _H. sapiens_ line of hominids some millions of years later, rather than by the Plain Speech species 9792 and 9794.) sharing secrets + +"I wish I had a special friend. Someone who understood me. Someone to share my secrets with." + +And beside them, a friend or a mate + +"_I'm_ your friend. _I_ understand you. You can share your secrets with _me_." + "That's not what I meant." diff --git a/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md b/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md index 1f7aadd..73f4fe0 100644 --- a/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md +++ b/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Category: commentary Tags: epistemology, Ozy Status: draft -This post is a response to Ozymandias's ["Lies to Cis People"](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/lies-to-cis-people/), and is part of my [continuing attempt](/tag/ozy/) to overthrow them as _de facto_ Gender Czar of the _Less Wrong_ diaspora. (Nothing personal, Ozy!âit's just that the people deserve more cold-hearted cosmic horrorâinducing reductionism than they're currently getting.) +This post is a response to Ozymandias's ["Lies to Cis People"](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/lies-to-cis-people/), and is part of my [continuing attempt](/tag/ozy/) to overthrow them as _de facto_ Gender Czar of the _Less Wrong_ diaspora. (Nothing personal, Ozy! We're still friends, right?) Ozymandias appeals to the concept of _lies-to-children_: simple models that fail to , but which are worth teaching and diseminating on the grounds of their practical utility. Lies-to-children diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 1562915..5b812ea 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -286,3 +286,5 @@ transition didn't change crime rate: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/162258180487/on-being-a-young-butch-lesbian-at-pride-2017 http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/154578646192/negative-social-effects-of-my-mastectomy + +productivity lifehacks: do excellent work in an extremely low-status field that you'd be mortified to be primarily known for, thus forcing yourself to also do excellent work in another area in order to rescue your reputation diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 877715e..9f598d7 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ A Common Misunderstanding; Or, The Spirit of the Staircase (24 January 2009) Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, ... The View From Nowhere -MAIN SEQUENCE (12)â +MAIN SEQUENCE (13)â Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ... Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ... @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Q This Is Worth a Fight _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model +Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See * Mary's Room Q The Hand I Was Dealt @@ -52,3 +53,4 @@ Blame Me for Trying "Love Like You" Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC +"I'm a traitor to my people," Mark thinks, as ... -- 2.17.1