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=b6eb49ecc5ac799c85b9ed216b92cedf06f5ce1c;hp=9dd66117ad88375a1deba4bd9bb2cb8d4c722f5e;hb=b5046b583de150069346a609232a0ab6cc243790;hpb=4b9d266b1377975a202c855cd47acd2275f26567 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 9dd6611..b6eb49e 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 @@ -24,16 +24,27 @@ So, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this insular little intellectua I guess I feel pretty naïve now, but—I _actually believed our own propoganda_. I _actually thought_ we were doing something new and special of historical and possibly even _cosmological_ significance. -And so, when I moved to "Portland" (which is actually Berkeley) in 2016, +And so when I moved to "Portland" (which is actually Berkeley) in 2016, and met some people who gave me reason to reëvaluate -if you're doing systematically correct reasoning, you should be able to get the right answer even on things that don't matter +I confess that I _may have overreacted somewhat_ + +because people weren't converging (or even engaging) with me on the two-types/autogynephilia thing. Psychology is a genuinely difficult empirical science + +I would _never_ write someone off for disagreeing with me about a complicated empirical thing, because complicated empirical things are complicated enough that I have to take the Outside View seriously: no matter how "obvious" I think my view is, I might still be wrong for real in real life. So, while I was pretty upset for my own idiosyncratic personal reasons, it wasn't cause to _give up entirely on the dream of a rationality community_. +https://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/07/beware-the-insi.html -guided by the beauty of our weapons +http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Jun/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words/ +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science +http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/ +/2017/Jan/im-sick-of-being-lied-to/ +/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/ + we live in a world where reason doesn't work + +if you're doing systematically correct reasoning, you should be able to get the right answer even on things that don't matter -Blanchard ... categories cognitive dissonance