X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=08732e35e1fcec8e51adae2b6a6c23b11a2c520e;hp=2a98e86a9abff3630e98336fae85e8d1065d88c7;hb=05733195dc87b4989d54471335dd30424b1dfc5e;hpb=ccbb6fb74bbcbb0142cb4e512a88167661e4e4c9 diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 2a98e86..08732e3 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -678,3 +678,57 @@ contrast to masochism being an infohazard in dath ilan: in real life, when your postyud Scott has the power to set narratives, as evidenced by his attack on Michael hijacking Jessica's thread + +maybe he should have some sympathy for Stephen J. Gould's intellectual crimes + +Feb. 2016 happy price schedule https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10153956696609228 + +one of the new collaborators on _Mad Investor Chaos_ is a _Catholic_ + +When my chat with EY at the independence day party degenerated into "I'm sorry for being dumb", he said if Zack Davis was too dumb, we're in trouble + +OK, "paperclips" is a legitimate example of categories being subjective/value-dependent + +http://paulgraham.com/heresy.html + +A "rationalist" community worthy of the name would be able to do the thing Steve Sailer does, while retaining our humanistic ethics https://www.unz.com/isteve/what-is-elon-musks-plan-for-reversing-the-tyranny-of-the-ex-men/ + +https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-twitter-coup +> a battle is won if the result of the battle is to make the next battle easier. The same is true of a political confrontation. +[...] +> I noticed that the streets had been largely cleared of homeless encampments (which have been pushed into the nearby forests). Most people take this as a conservative victory. It is actually a defeat. +> It is a victory in the ordinary sense of the term—an action which gets what the actors want. It is a tactical victory—but a strategic defeat. At a party the other day, I spoke to one of the people who orchestrated this “victory,” and explained why I saw it this way. +[...] +> for a rebel, all true victories are total. He who makes half a revolution digs his own grave +in this sense, I keep winning battles, but I've basically conceded the war + +Rubices— +> with Zack in 2017 in particular, I don't know if it's still true now, there was also a lot of "women are brilliant and perfect and pure, and it would do damage to something beautiful for a man to pretend to be one" +gonna mostlky bite the bullet on this one + + +https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-04-09 +> You all remember the thing I predicted correctly 12 years ago, therefore you should heed my word on this completely unrelated topic + +The time E.Y. recommended dark side epistemology as shortform still feels telling—you could say it's circumstantial nitpicking, but I think it's revealing, like the "reducing negativity" +https://discord.com/channels/401181628015050773/471045466805633029/934929649421672488 +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fYC3t6QQDvdBBwJdw/plutonic_form-s-shortform?commentId=dghPKBjgiA6pTcCKz + +"Death With Dignity" isn't really an update; he used to refuse to give a probability, and now he says the probability is ~0 + +https://www.foxylists.com/etiquette +> 6. Do not ask for additional pictures, selfies or services they have not already agreed upon. + +> One nice thing about intellectuals is that when they turn, they frequently leave behind a detailed, mostly coherent record of what a person turning into a rhinoceros thinks is going on. +https://twitter.com/ben_r_hoffman/status/1477733825702936581 + +Rationality was supposed to be important!! + +Paul says so— +> My current sense is that cooperation has a better tradeoff than some forms of enhancement (e.g. giving humans bigger brains) and worse than others (e.g. improving the accuracy of people's and institution's beliefs about the world). + +Rob says so, too— +> Help ourselves think more clearly. (I imagine this including a lot of trying-to-become-more-rational, developing and following relatively open/honest communication norms, and trying to build better mental models of crucial parts of the world.) + +> their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints +https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228