X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-meaning-sections.md;h=2d40acc8b099207efbdc29a40ddf11b447f83691;hp=e9b424050f7e8f0c4b9bbad500eb6a3a01669ccb;hb=900f40fcb823b81be9e3d395241eba5997a88532;hpb=963bff2bdcef0d9b927dfe96506d2a4f6ee93284 diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md index e9b4240..2d40acc 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md @@ -366,6 +366,11 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters If Scott Alexander's "The Categories Were Made For Man ..." had never been published, would we still be talking about dolphins and trees in the same way? +Scott has so many fans— +https://jasoncrawford.org/guide-to-scott-alexander-and-slate-star-codex +https://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexandria/ +https://guzey.com/favorite/slate-star-codex/ + Nate on dolphins (June 2021)—a dogwhistle?? https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1401670792409014273 Yudkowsky retweeted Nate on dolphins— @@ -379,3 +384,12 @@ https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721 "Hero Licensing": to provide an earnest-token of all the techniques I couldn't show uncritically (uncharacteristically uncritically) taking the newly-ascendant gender-identity theory for granted ("lots of women wouldn't be particularly disturbed if they had a male body; the ones we know as 'trans' are just the ones with unusually strong female gender identities"), without considering the obvious-in-retrospect hypothesis that "guy who speculates about his female analogue on a transhumanist mailing list in 2004" and "guy who thinks he might be a trans women in Berkeley 2016" are the same guy. + +https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/logical_dt/?l=5gc +It even leaked into Big Yud!!! "Counterfactuals were made for humanity, not humanity for counterfactuals." + +If hiring a community matchmaker was worth it, why don't my concerns count, too? + +When I protested that I wasn't expecting a science fictional Utopia of pure reason, but just for people to continue to be right about things they already got right in 2008, he said, "Doesn't matter—doesn't _fucking_ matter." + +humans have honor instead of TDT. "That's right! I'm appealing to your honor!"