X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md;h=720f2de7b978455c5a93a0dac7f81510976b4dce;hp=f2735771fa43f6005dc424ad9926d555c3ab98bd;hb=6104b0b7f1f99cfd794d93762273671bf138bbd6;hpb=e9dce8f6fb4c7cd9690fe6aaf6477f5d5daf565d diff --git a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md index f273577..720f2de 100644 --- a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md +++ b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ In that November 2018 Twitter thread, [Yudkowsky wrote](https://archive.is/y5V9i This seems to suggest that gender pronouns in the English language as currently spoken don't have effective truth conditions. I think this is false _as a matter of cognitive science_. If someone told you, "Hey, you should come meet my friend at the mall, she is really cool and I think you'll like her," and then the friend turned out to look like me (as I am now), _you would be surprised_. (Even if people in Berkeley would socially punish you for _admitting_ that you were surprised.) The "she ... her" pronouns would prompt your brain to _predict_ that the friend would appear to be female, and that prediction would be _falsified_ by someone who looked like me (as I am now). Pretending that the social-norms dispute is about chromosomes was a _bullshit_ [weakmanning](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/) move on the part of Yudkowsky, [who had once written that](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qNZM3EGoE5ZeMdCRt/reversed-stupidity-is-not-intelligence) "[t]o argue against an idea honestly, you should argue against the best arguments of the strongest advocates[;] [a]rguing against weaker advocates proves _nothing_, because even the strongest idea will attract weak advocates." Thanks to the skills I learned from Yudkowsky's _earlier_ writing, I wasn't dumb enough to fall for it, but we can imagine someone otherwise similar to me who was, who might have thereby been misled into making worse life decisions. -[TODO: ↑ less aggressive about E.Y.'s motives, just focus on consequences for people like me who trust him] +[TODO: ↑ tone] If this "rationality" stuff is useful for _anything at all_, you would _expect_ it to be useful for _practical life decisions_ like _whether or not I should cut my dick off_. @@ -666,7 +666,6 @@ I think what actually happens is that people like Yudkowsky and Alexander rise t It makes sense for public figures to not want to commit political suicide! - [TODO: risk factor of people getting drawn in to a subculture that claims to be about reasoning, but is actualy very heavily optimized for cutting boys dicks off. We already get a lot of shit for being right-wing; People use trans as political cover; @@ -675,11 +674,10 @@ https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1275524303430262790 > The two demographics most over-represented in the SlateStarCodex readership according to the surveys are transgender people and Ph.D. holders. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5310 -> Another thing that would’ve complicated the picture: the rationalist community’s legendary openness to alternative gender identities and sexualities, before -- -] +> Another thing that would've complicated the picture: the rationalist community’s legendary openness to alternative gender identities and sexualities +] Someone asked me: "If we randomized half the people at [OpenAI](https://openai.com/) to use trans pronouns one way, and the other half to use it the other way, do you think they would end up with significantly different productivity?" @@ -703,15 +701,15 @@ The thing I'm objecting to is this _culture of narcissistic Orwellian mind games [TODO: my friends should exist, but this culture is nuts -https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1092472430465929216 -> damn one extremely bad way to start my day is having the receptionist at slack say I look like a male celebrity -> I'm so mad. wow. like. I look like this right now, how could anyone ever think that was an okay thing to say??? +anecdote about someone complaining that a receptionist compared them to a male celebrity + +_It was a complement!_ (That poor receptionist was thinking of David Bowie or Eddie Izzard, rather than trying to be hateful) -It was a complement! I don't _want_ people to have to doublethink around their perceptions of me, pretend not to notice +I don't _want_ people to have to doublethink around their perceptions of me, pretend not to notice -Ziz's complaint that I'm siding with the oppressors in conceptual warfare +the complaint that I'm siding with the oppressors in conceptual warfare the political incentives propagate recursively, a phase transition: in a culture it's normal for AGP males to transition, any sub-culture where they don't is subject to attack as transphobic -I want to stay aligned with _actual women_, many of whom have an interest in excluding me and Ziz +I want to stay aligned with _actual women_, many of whom have an interest in excluding me ] [I have seen the destiny of my neurotype, and am putting forth a convulsive effort to wrench it off its path. My weapon is clear writing.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking)