X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Foceans_rise_empires_fall.md;h=c160207b67c5d088c00171e2e0ee241471ad093c;hp=48d8b71ac7cd66676adb97be6b3ee0256a0f56ca;hb=21731ba6f1191f1e8f920c44299c4b345f4fa528;hpb=f1129284da0a1943d1f2809292ea2f832b0d03f3 diff --git a/content/drafts/oceans_rise_empires_fall.md b/content/drafts/oceans_rise_empires_fall.md index 48d8b71..c160207 100644 --- a/content/drafts/oceans_rise_empires_fall.md +++ b/content/drafts/oceans_rise_empires_fall.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ _(Attention conservation notice: passing thoughts on the present scene)_ Okay, three years lat—three _months_, three _months_ later, let me say it was too optimistic of me to have [suggested that public discourse was working with respect to pandemic response](/2020/Mar/relative-gratitude-and-the-great-plague-of-2020/). I was pointing at _something_ real with that post—there is _some_ subgraph of the network of the world that's interested in doing serious cognition to minimize horrible suffocation deaths, but which is overwhelmingly _not_ interested in ... -But it's a _small_ subgraph. It is written that every improvement is necessarily a change, but not every change is an improvement. When the center of collective narrative gravity shifts, that _could_ be the homing device of our [beautiful weapons](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/) converging on the needle of Truth in the haystack of thought, but it could just be the blind thrashing of Fashion. +But it's a _small_ subgraph. It is written that every improvement is necessarily a change, but not every change is an improvement. When the center of collective narrative gravity shifts, that _could_ be the homing device of our [beautiful weapons](http://web.archive.org/web/20200521005958/https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/) converging on the needle of Truth in the haystack of thought, but it could just be the blind thrashing of Fashion. The Smart Subgraph [sounding the alarm](https://putanumonit.com/2020/02/27/seeing-the-smoke/) might have been an input into authorities calling for a half-measured lockdown ("lockdown")—which was only enough to push R0 [slightly below 1](https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/covid-19-4-30-stuck-in-limbo/). That might have bought us time if we had any [live players](https://medium.com/@samo.burja/live-versus-dead-players-2b24f6e9eae2) who could do the test-trace-quarantine scurrying we fantasized about, but it doesn't look like that's a thing. @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Is it wrong for me to say "similar voices"? I _know_ that Maia Niguel Hoskin (au [TODO: but I'm most angry about Hsu] -https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gone-bad/ +http://web.archive.org/web/20200514120734/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gone-bad/ J. K. Rowling https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/05/28/connecticut-transgender-policy-found-to-violate-title-ix https://www.wnpr.org/post/us-government-wont-recognize-connecticut-transgender-athletes-right-compete-females