+I've now told enough of my Whole Dumb Story that it's time for the part where I explain how @ESYudkowsky has not been consistently candid in his communications with his followers, hindering their ability to exercise their responsibilities: [link]
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+(I think this is the best and most important post in the sequence; I suspect that many readers who didn't and shouldn't bother with the previous three posts, may benefit from just reading this one.)
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+Post later (can't afford to spend more Twitter time now)—
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+https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1436039564032823313
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+@davidxu90, you said the other month you were curious about what would count as a crux for me, and I supplied one (↑). Any thoughts?
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+(I generated the dictator analogy while consciously trying to play the double-crux game, but I confess my actual reaction is "Harmful inferences?! What the fuck is wrong with you?!" [link "Choosing to Be Biased"])
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+the Blue Tribe/Gray Tribe color schema is really unfortunate given how enthusiastic the Blues are about Civil War analogies
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+Funny coincidence to come across @SeriesTangled lyrics extensively referenced in a cognitive-science-of-gender blog post (looks like a really cool paper about language and color perception from [...], too)
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Free-speech conditions in the country as a whole have gotten worse, but conditions in my immediate social graph have gotten better, as people who previously wanted to stay on the good side of Blue Egregore hit the "I can't live like this" breaking point that I hit in October 2016
Do we even know what a fair election looks like? "Trump legitimately loses but falsely alleges vote fraud tipped it to Biden" and "Trump appears to lose, alleges election fraud tipped it to Biden, and this allegation happens to be true" have very similar consequences! 1/2
KQED was asked: "Why does Walnut Creek have a yacht club (http://wcyc.net/)?—they're not on the Bay."
KQED answered: "To spite Berkeley: they have a Free Speech Café."
-In the NRx production of Hairspray, "You Can't Stop the Beat" is re-keyed to a chilling C minor
+✓ In the NRx production of Hairspray, "You Can't Stop the Beat" is re-keyed to a chilling C minor
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
A man and woman liked to shake it on a Saturday night
-No justice, no peace (where "justice" means "maximizing the logarithm of the probability assigned by the shared map to the observed outcome")
+✓ No justice, no peace (where "justice" means "maximizing the probability assigned by the shared map to the observed outcome")
Hey. What if we arrested the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, AND had genuine freedom of inquiry into biological causes of human behavior? We could just do both! They're not actually contradicting each other!
"Well, actually, we're ASHKENAZI supremacists" may not be as convincing a defense as you think :cold_sweat:
-A more innocent world in which "HSTS" stands for "HTTP strict transport security", and "MAP" stands for "maximum a posteriori"
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-I've heard that politics ruins everything, but this is ridiculous https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Tr7tAyt5zZpdTwTQK/the-solomonoff-prior-is-malign
+✓ A more innocent world in which "HSTS" stands for "HTTP strict transport security", and "MAP" stands for "maximum a posteriori"
I never expected to become a polarizing figure 1/5
Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you??
-Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.")
+✓ Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.")
-"Bayesian reasoning" is a TERF dogwhistle
+✓ "Bayesian reasoning" is a TERF dogwhistle
Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" is an allegory about how a single dissenter's courage can shatter preference-falsification equilibria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ6O785wx8c
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