X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2020%2Fmemento-mori.md;h=08c58328a6d17d9691c31ae7fee08021aee1a646;hp=420908ada64963af80902b468705116655352454;hb=93c8d97679a17092285a29201b3eeee6dcf92eae;hpb=8d31183d8038e1833a45d7915b754934ff6b384c diff --git a/content/2020/memento-mori.md b/content/2020/memento-mori.md index 420908a..08c5832 100644 --- a/content/2020/memento-mori.md +++ b/content/2020/memento-mori.md @@ -46,6 +46,6 @@ Overall, I'm left with this uncanny feeling that Mariner is ... not drawn from t I wish I knew _in more detail_ what my brain thinks it's picking up on here? (I could always be wrong.) It's important that I use the word _distribution_ everywhere; I'm at least definitely not being one of those _statistically-illiterate_ sexists. Most men _also_ don't have that kind or degree of boisterous dominance; my surprise is a matter of ratios in the right tail. -I wish there was some way I could get a chance to explain to all _my people_ still under the Egregore's control, what _should_ be common knowledge too obvious to mention—that Bayesian _surprise_ is not moral _disapproval_. Beckett Mariner _deserves to exist_. (And, incidentally, I deserve the chance to _be_ her.) But I think the way you realistically _get_ starships and StyleGAN—and survive—is going to require an uncompromising focus on the kind of technical excellence that can explain in mathematical detail what black-box abstractions like "politics" and "empathy" are even supposed to _mean_—an excellence that _doesn't fit past the regex filter_. +I wish there was some way I could get a chance to explain to all _my people_ still under the Egregore's control, what _should_ be common knowledge too obvious to mention—that Bayesian _surprise_ is not moral _disapproval_. Beckett Mariner _deserves to exist_. (And, incidentally, I deserve the chance to _be_ her.) But I think the way you realistically _get_ starships and full-body StyleGAN—and survive—is going to require an uncompromising focus on the kind of technical excellence that can explain in mathematical detail what black-box abstractions like "politics" and "empathy" are even supposed to _mean_—an excellence that _doesn't fit past the regex filter_. But I don't expect to live to get the chance.