X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=9c2ee152bfd72d21fca2c35a559d443cfd6f0122;hp=df2cec0566d43ccf0f58a948d9aa58466f7066f9;hb=b2cb7a77defec83dd488fc7e99344307673781c9;hpb=832a039e597e298a9cc484f8c2b8832129b8bc56 diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index df2cec0..9c2ee15 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ _ the other Twitter conversation incl. Tail where Yudkowsky says he's not taking _ the exchange on old OB where I said to acknowledge that not all men _want_ to be masculine _ screenshot Rob's Facebook comment which I link _ compile Categories references from the Dolphin War +_ dates of subsequent philosophy-of-language posts far editing tier— _ clarify why Michael thought Scott was "gaslighting" me, include "beeseech bowels of Christ" @@ -987,3 +988,12 @@ Thoughts on your proposed cruxes: 1 (harmful inferences) is an unworkable AI des https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1436025983522381827 > Well, Zack hopefully shouldn't see this, but I do happen to endorse everything you just said, for your own personal information. + + +[SECTION about monastaries (with Ben and Anna in April 2019) +I complained to Anna: "Getting the right answer in public on topic _X_ would be too expensive, so we won't do it" is _less damaging_ when the set of such Xes is _small_. It looked to me like we added a new forbidden topic in the last ten years, without rolling back any of the old ones. + +"Reasoning in public is too expensive; reasoning in private is good enough" is _less damaging_ when there's some sort of _recruiting pipeline_ from the public into the monasteries: lure young smart people in with entertaining writing and shiny math, _then_ gradually undo their political brainwashing once they've already joined your cult. (It had [worked on me](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)!) + +I would be sympathetic to "rationalist" leaders like Anna or Yudkowsky playing that strategy if there were some sort of indication that they had _thought_, at all, about the pipeline problem—or even an indication that there _was_ an intact monastery somewhere. +]