X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-notes.txt;h=6cca7661a535a4f6744854a474e2e2b669085ce8;hp=2514684070f12683fb96728dbe9ecbb9737fb247;hb=e0ed847291ffa2a56700a4ea4b2d4e34fa0fccdf;hpb=eb4c0412071db0f44d041b48c677e7d6b4cfdd7e diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 2514684..6cca766 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— @@ -593,3 +590,6 @@ sneaking a copy of MTIMB into the MIRI library after visiting Eliezer (Jessica w playing chess with a pigeon, what the tortise said to Achilles [Discord comment about creating a space where no one questions whether someone deserves real woman status] + + +The "national borders" metaphor is particularly galling if—[unlike](https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/31/the-parable-of-the-talents/) [Arthur Blair](https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/30/the-lottery-of-fascinations/)—you _actually know the math_.