X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fan-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md;h=4d7d76ef526e8f165eb8610e5676e9f5196a1976;hp=2cd8b8c422cc16cb70c0fc87963130e354a8dc51;hb=ee814f59408de1253d58db424b38c7496e13fe06;hpb=a316bf7abcd0b9a6bbf63291452d85c2b568195e 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 2cd8b8c..4d7d76e 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 @@ -4,12 +4,6 @@ Category: commentary Tags: epistemology Status: draft -> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with." -> -> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape." -> -> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan - TODO OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT— @@ -37,36 +31,5 @@ POINTS FROM MY EMAIL TO BBL— norms of who should transition should be, who should pay for it, &c. "Infovism" rather than activism. +work in my "the arc of the moral universe bends towards maximum entropy" quip: https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154841793275199 -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