X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-notes.txt;h=05d38c0c88cd111a8c394856a03d184400fcbbc2;hp=18bfd63a4ad0b8af331023009a0138f2709f68e4;hb=981ee94af3bca595ba1bac783650b12c3a59e3a9;hpb=30bfa073590fdae299bc1b4a7520d49853eb2c70 diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 18bfd63..05d38c0 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ I can accept a church community that disagrees on whether evolution is true. (Er _everyone else shot first_, and I'm _correct on the merits_ competence forcing conclusions: http://www.sl4.org/archive/0602/13903.html +https://archive.is/nb5rH analogy to school @@ -130,8 +131,6 @@ I _have_ to keep escalating, because I don't have a choice It shouldn't be a political demand; people should actually process my arguments because they're good arguments -"Actually, we're Ashkenazi supremacists" - James Watson 'aught-seven Arguing is not a punishment https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/ @@ -237,8 +236,6 @@ getting a reversal was improbable, but: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/st7DiQP2 TWAW is a positive-valence instance of the worst-argument-in-the-world, but it's still the SAME THING; if you can't see that, you're dumb -[I have seen the destiny of my neurotype, and am putting forth a convulsive effort to wrench it off its path. My weapon is clear writing.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking) - I just don't _know how_ to tell the true tale of personal heartbreak without expressing some degree of disappointment in some people's characters. It is written that ["almost no one is evil; almost everything is broken."](https://blog.jaibot.com/). And [the _first_ step](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uHYYA32CKgKT3FagE/hold-off-on-proposing-solutions) towards fixing that which is broken, is _describing the problem_.) The "I can define the word 'woman' any way I want" argument is bullshit. All the actually-smart people know that it's bullshit at _some_ level, perhaps semi-consciously buried under a lot of cognitive dissonance. But it's _socially load-bearing_ bullshit that _not only_ does almost no one have an incentive to correct— @@ -541,7 +538,6 @@ but ... that's my entire social circle If I can't ragequit the community, I have to do the analogue of going to grad school, while hating school—I don't have an exit this time -(Picture me playing Hermione Granger in a post-Singularity adaptation of the Great Teacher's famous _Harry Potter_ fanfic (Emma Watson having loaned me a copy of her body for the occasion): "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!") https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WLJwTJ7uGPA5Qphbp/trying-to-try > it's a lens through which you can view many-but-not-all personal dilemmas—"What standard am I holding myself to? Is it high enough?"