X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fi-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md;h=2bb2744c3b1e85ebeca5e5bf988e5745e1e5c555;hp=195726138535dc941ab8ce36efd7145d7e65b164;hb=2fc071e3d84c1ead3fcc932cba95bae1b28a18a7;hpb=7b91157789614666711f607af21fde5505e3dd81 diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md index 1957261..2bb2744 100644 --- a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md +++ b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -Title: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End" +Title: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning Date: 2020-01-01 -Category: commentary -Tags: personal +Category: other +Tags: personal, my robot cult Status: draft > _And I tell myself to let the story end @@ -14,19 +14,27 @@ Status: draft > > —Sara Barellies, ["Gonna Get Over You"](https://genius.com/Sara-bareilles-gonna-get-over-you-lyrics) -So, I haven't been doing so well for the past four and a half months. +I mostly haven't been doing so well for the past nine months or so. I mean, I've always been a high-neuroticism person, but this has been a below-average year even by my standards. I've been reluctant to write about it in too much detail for poorly-understood psychological reasons. Maybe it would feel too much like attacking my friends? -Explaining this will require some context. +But this blog is not about _not_ attacking my friends. This blog is about the truth. For my own sanity, for my own emotional closure, I need to tell the story as best I can. If it's an incredibly boring and petty story about people getting _unreasonably angry_ about philosophy-of-language minutiæ, well, you've been warned. If the story makes me look bad in the reader's eyes (because you think I'm crazy for getting so unreasonably angry about philosophy-of-language minutiæ), then I shall be happy to look bad for an _accurate_ account of _what I actually am_—I should expect nothing less. -I've spent basically my entire adult life -believed our own propoganda -Blanchard ... categories -cognitive dissonance -smart people clearly know -I'll be alright. Just not tonight. + +This is _basic shit_. As we say locally, this is _basic Sequences shit_. + + + +Now, it's not obvious that I _shouldn't_ cut my dick off! A lot of people seem to be doing it nowadays, and a lot of them seem to be pretty happy with their decision! But in order to _decide_ whether it's a good idea, I need _accurate information_ + +, so that I can cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's a good idea, and not cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's not a good idea. + + + +actively manufacture _fake rationality lessons_ that have been optimized to _confuse me into cutting my dick off_ independently of whether or not we live in a world + +