X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=ca6bc94f453bd9e8dc286a79c81bc77f70e75f09;hp=08907b5cea7b3864fc86dd01a43e537eb6708fcb;hb=a45a461726d892c0dc5d128db253211247b62d84;hpb=daa9b2ec9554a5c8521be75218bc2b4f79d356c2 diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 08907b5..ca6bc94 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -423,11 +423,18 @@ back in 'aught-nine, Anna commented that no one in our circle was that old, as i Really, self-respecting trans people who care about logical consistency should abhor Scott and Eliezer's opinions—you should want people to use the right pronouns _because_ of your gender soul or _because_ your transition actually worked, not because categories are flexible and pronouns shouldn't imply gender -> Because it was you, I tried to read this when it came out. But you do not know how to come to a point, because you are too horrified by the thought that a reader might disagree with you if you don't write even more first; so then I started skimming, and then I gave up. -https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1435605868758765568 + + https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1435605868758765568 -> Because it was you, I tried to read this when it came out. But you do not know how to come to a point, because you are too horrified by the thought that a reader might disagree with you if you don't write even more first; so then I started skimming, and then I gave up. +> Because it was you, I tried to read this when it came out. But you do not know how to come to a point, because you are too horrified by the thought that a reader might disagree with you if you don't write even more first; so then I started skimming, and then I gave up. + +But I wasn't always this way. It's adaptive. The reason I write even more to get out ahead of the objections I can forsee, is because I've been _at this for six years_. I tried being concise _first_. + +You want concise? Meghan Murphy got it down to four words (which could have been three): "Men aren't women tho." + + + > If you think you can win a battle about 2 + 3 = 5, then it can feel like victory or self-justification to write a huge long article hammering on that; but it doesn't feel as good to engage with how the Other does not think they are arguing 2 + 3 = 6, they're talking about 2 * 3. https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1435618825198731270