From be3dbbe1a4ad6b3c8f06ff303bc996fdab9937f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:19:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] outline of NRx-adj thoughts --- ...istory-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md b/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md index da65a67..ef365b8 100644 --- a/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md +++ b/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ TODO OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT— +POINTS FROM MY EMAIL TO BBL— + * the current situation re MtF is crazy * activists who want to change society are both incentivized and selected for self-delusion— * incentivized because: ... ? (Exercise: what was I thinking when I said @@ -28,3 +30,37 @@ OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT— the standard sex-ed textbooks, but not trying to dictate what the social norms of who should transition should be, who should pay for it, &c. "Infovism" rather than activism. + + +NRx-inspired (sigh ... yes, unfortunately) points— + +(most of this should probably be split into a separate post even if I'm happening to do some outlining in this file; evil speculation shouldn't contaminate the solid "Infovism" idea/slogan)— + + * democracy is government by whichever memes happen to be the most virulent + * outcomes of the long run of a one-dimensional conflict can be classified, roughly something like: Left total victory, right total victory, mutually assured destruction, and program equilibrium + * program equilibrium isn't easy/possible for humans + * the key point here is that "grant this demand, deny all others" isn't a + defensible Schelling point; if you yield here, the _same algorithm_ is + going to be running the next time + * "Berkeley 2009 morality was just right, but this Berkeley 2017 bullshit has + gone _too far_!" + * If I were dictator, (Berkeley, 2009) could be made to work, but everyone has her own (city, year) pair + * for some reason I thought this was analogous to something from the + Coherent Extrapolated Volition document: Dennis thinks he should own + the world, but fairness requires that Dennis's name be erased from any + such request, and "some X should own the world" is underspecified" + * remember my conversation with a certain female bio-/psychologist studying at + Harvard who told me that "Trans women are men with a mental illness" made + more sense, but that she was afraid to even think that within the privacy of + her own head + * fucking _Harvard_ + * Moldbug, "The True Meaning of Diversity": "Certainly not every party member + is an [X]. Most of them, in fact, are not. Nor is it absolutely guaranteed + that every single [X] will be a party member. But most of them, in fact, + are"—thus, requiring representaiton of Xes benefits the party + * practice of deferring to designated-victim trans women _makes the trans + women worse people_: if you know that you can win a dispute by playing the + transphobia card, that incentive shapes your life (Moldbug: discussion of + "ignoble privilege" in "Gentle Introduction" pt. 3) + * kind of like how _the right to be sued_ is an important part of legal + personhood: the possibility of recourse is necessary for trust -- 2.17.1