From f32aea7316333933e09fb4953f3542aedcc21940 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 11:53:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] =?utf8?q?memoir:=20next=20pipeline=20step=E2=80=94revise?= =?utf8?q?=20roughy=20outline=20notes=20from=20email=20notes?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- ...-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 54 ++++++++++++++++--- notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md | 1 + notes/post_ideas.txt | 1 + 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) 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 f392d89..1f1b8e1 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 @@ -361,7 +361,15 @@ Michael said that me and Jess together have more moral authority] [TODO: wrapping up with Scott; Kelsey; high and low Church https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/04/some-clarifications-on-rationalist-blogging/] -[TODO: Ben reiterated that the most important thing was explaining why I've written them off; self-promotion imposes a cost on others; Jessica on creating clarity; Michael on less precise is more violent] +[TODO small section: Ben reiterated that the most important thing was explaining why I've written them off; self-promotion imposes a cost on others; Jessica on creating clarity; Michael on less precise is more violent] + +[TODO small section: with Ben and Anna about monastaries] + +[TODO small section: concern about bad faith nitpicking] + +[TODO: Jessica's acquaintance said I should have known that wouldn't work] + +[TODO: Ben on Eliza the bot therapist analogy [TODO: after some bouncing off the posse, what was originally an email draft became a public _Less Wrong_ post, "Where to Draw the Boundaries?" (note, plural) * Wasn't the math overkill? @@ -370,20 +378,50 @@ Michael said that me and Jess together have more moral authority] * no politics! just philosophy! * Ben on Michael on whether we are doing politics; "friendship, supplication, and economics" * I could see that I'm including subtext and expecting people to only engage with the text, but if we're not going to get into full-on gender-politics on Less Wrong, but gender politics is motivating an epistemology error, I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do! I'm pretty constrained here! + * * I had already poisoned the well with "Blegg Mode" the other month, bad decision * We lost?! How could we lose??!!?!? ] ------- +[TODO: my reluctance to write a memoir, displacement behavior +Ben thought it was imporant on 30 Apr, 12 Aug , I confess to being stuck on 9 Nov +I write more about the philosophy of language instead +"Univariate fallacy" also a concession +] + +curation hopes ... 22 Jun: I'm expressing a little bit of bitterness that a mole rats post got curated https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fDKZZtTMTcGqvHnXd/naked-mole-rats-a-case-study-in-biological-weirdness -[TODO: I was floored; math and wellness month - Anna doesn't want money from me - scuffle on "Yes Requires the Possibility of No" - LessWrong FAQ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MqrzczdGhQCRePgqN/feedback-requested-draft-of-a-new-about-welcome-page-for#iqEEme6M2JmZEXYAk ] +scuffle on "Yes Requires the Possibility of No" +LessWrong FAQ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MqrzczdGhQCRePgqN/feedback-requested-draft-of-a-new-about-welcome-page-for#iqEEme6M2JmZEXYAk ] -[TODO: more blogging (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5aqumaym7Jd2qhDcy/containment-thread-on-the-motivation-and-political-context), 2019 Christmas party, disclaimer on "Categories Were Made"] -["Univariate fallacy" also a concession] + +[TODO section on factional conflict: +Michael on Anna as an enemy +24 Aug: I had told Anna about Michael's "enemy combatants" metaphor, and how I originally misunderstood +me being regarded as Michael's pawn +assortment of agendas +mutualist pattern where Michael by himself isn't very useful for scholarship (he just says a lot of crazy-sounding things and refuses to explain them), but people like Sarah and me can write intelligible things that secretly benefited from much less legible conversations with Michael. +] + +[TODO: Yudkowsky throwing NRx under the bus; tragedy of recursive silencing +15 Sep Glen Weyl apology +] + +[TODO: Ziz incident; more upset about gender validation than the felony charges, which were equally ridiculous and more obviously linked to physical violence +complicity with injustice "Ziz isn't going to be a problem for you anymore" +] + +[TODO: a culture that has gone off the rails; my warning points to Vaniver] + +[TODO: plan to reach out to Rick] + +[TODO: Christmas party +people reading funny GPT-2 quotes +Tsvi said it would be sad if I had to leave the Bay Area +motivation deflates after Christmas victory +5 Jan memoir as nuke +] (There's another very important part of the story that would fit around here chronologically, but unfortunately, 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 d1f4fc3..8bbfad6 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ _ explain first use of Center for Applied Rationality _ erasing agency of Michael's friends, construed as a pawn _ Anna thought badmouthing Michael was OK by Michael's standards _ chat with "Wilhelm" during March 2019 minor psych episode +_ explain the adversarial pressure on privacy norms people to consult before publishing, for feedback or right of objection— _ Iceman diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index be01559..92bcfcd 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America Minor— _ Timelines _ Xpression Camera Is the Uniquely Best Piece of Software in the World +_ ASL Is Not a Language _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress _ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus _ my medianworld: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639 -- 2.17.1