X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-notes.txt;h=d2c39182a7916a254066201405062987952e7a8a;hp=2634d6da7d4589f581bf6cda4564b399ac466321;hb=8151c68c55cf5d8e2fa09726d1410a9fc273e99a;hpb=c16c4de8ad284f30fa551625c30603fe915b2c41 diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 2634d6d..d2c3918 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -439,3 +439,12 @@ If an Outer Party member in the world of George Orwell's 1984 says, "Oceania has > but not worth starting over over I mean, this is the part where I do a very not Effective Altruist-themed thing, and stop talking as if I do anything for the good of the lightcone. (Maybe see Ben on "Against Responsibility" and "The Humility Argument for Honesty".) I internalized a particular vision [...] of what conduct is appropriate to a "rationalist"; I'm didn't that standard upheld with respect to my Something to Protect; so I am doing a halt–melt–catch-fire on "the community." It's worth starting over over _for me_. If my actions (implausibly) represent a PR risk to someone else's Singularity strategy, then they're welcome to try to persuade or negotiate with me. + + +the appeal to arbitrariness technically extends in both directions (if there's no rule saying you can't use the word to talk about self-identity, there's no rule saying I can't use the word to talk about sex), but systematically favors one side—sex is a pretty robust abstraction, and there's no reason to deny the appeal of robustness + +https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/89nw0w/did_you_have_a_genderbody_swaptransformation/ + +Inadequate Equilibria! + +I'm expressing the same kind of frustration as the Great Teacher complaining about cryo not being standard—my personal benchmark of "sanity" isn't realistic