X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;fp=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=d5a7167c9964923e1284eed956c2256c2b1c4fa9;hp=cacdf407c961033e7207f556f849311c4745e3be;hb=5c15cd566ecbc26c30b4f28a017f85ca2fcca788;hpb=52c164e8b7ae199da926daf13f1919d615197384 diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index cacdf40..d5a7167 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ _ giving up on him, don't want to waste any more time, last email With internet available— -_ my comment about having changed my mind about "A Fable of Science and Politics" _ what is the dictionary definition of _gestalt_ (maybe link it?) +_ better examples from "Yes Requires the Possibility of No" +_ my comment about having changed my mind about "A Fable of Science and Politics" _ me remarking to "Wilhelm" that I think I met Vanessa at Solstice once, commented on Greg Egan _ debate with Benquo and Jessicata _ more Yudkowsky Facebook comment screenshots @@ -78,8 +79,8 @@ _ secret posse member _ Alicorn: about privacy, and for Melkor Glowfic reference link _ someone from Alicorner #drama as a hostile prereader (Swimmer?) _ maybe Kelsey (very briefly, just about her name)? -_ maybe SK (briefly about his name)? -(probably don't bother with Michael?) +_ maybe SK (briefly about his name)? (the memoir might have the opposite problem (too long) from my hostile-shorthand Twitter snipes) +(maybe don't bother with Michael?) things to bring up in consultation emails— _ dropping "and Scott" in Jessica's description of attacking narcissim @@ -1237,7 +1238,6 @@ _Less Wrong_ had recently been rebooted with a new codebase and a new dev/admin - Yudkowsky did [quote-Tweet Colin Wright on the univariate fallacy](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1124757043997372416) (which I got to [cite in a _Less Wrong_ post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy) @@ -1270,27 +1270,6 @@ REACH panel (Subject: "Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip") -Since arguing at the object level had failed (["... To Make Predictions"](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/), ["Reply on Adult Human Females"](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/)), and arguing at the strictly meta level had failed (["... Boundaries?"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries)), the obvious thing to do next was to jump up to the meta-meta level and tell the story about why the "rationalists" were Dead To Me now, that [my price for joining](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q8evewZW5SeidLdbA/your-price-for-joining) was not being met. (Just like Ben had suggested in December and in April.) - -I found it trouble to make progress on. I felt—constrained. I didn't know how to tell the story without (as I perceived it) escalating personal conflicts or leaking info from private conversations. So instead, I mostly turned to a combination of writing bitter and insulting comments whenever I saw someone praise "the rationalists" collectively, and—more philosophy-of-language blogging! - -In August's ["Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), I explained a nuance that had only merited a passion mention in "... Boundaries?": sometimes you might want categories for different agents to _coordinate_ on, even at the cost of some statistical "fit." (This was of course generalized from a "pro-trans" argument that had occured to me, [that self-identity is an easy Schelling point when different people disagree about what "gender" they perceive someone as](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/).) - -[TODO— more blogging 2019 - -"Algorithms of Deception!" Oct 2019 - -"Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist" Oct 2019 - -I was _furious_ at "Against Lie Inflation"—oh, so _now_ you agree that making language less useful is a problem?! But then I realized Scott actually was being consistent in his own frame: he's counting "everyone is angrier" (because of more frequent lying-accusations) as a cost; but, if everyone _is_ lying, maybe they should be angry! - -"Heads I Win" Sep 2019: I was surprised by how well this did (high karma, later included in the best-of-2019 collection); Ben and Jessica had discouraged me from bothering after I - -"Firming Up ..." Dec 2019: combatting Yudkowsky's not-technically-lying shenanigans - -] - - Scott said he liked "monastic rationalism _vs_. lay rationalism" as a frame for the schism Ben was proposing. (I wish I could use this line)