X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-notes.txt;h=d53ddf634950ba83e257e733ea7ac52ff1f4de9d;hp=73b6123fc0373a35089e98f63fe1c5c30d2ae700;hb=f2f396f01d2e5ae4dc79c1a1be4d35f5791e9646;hpb=d1b61f3fd4a3afd212fd1c3a420f07b83e33d26f diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 73b6123..d53ddf6 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -368,16 +368,6 @@ http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/ http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/concerns-ii/ "you yourself admit that your model won't assign literally all of its probability mass to the exact outcome?!" -"category boundaries" were just a visual metaphor for talking about beliefs? There's a little naive Bayes model in my head with "blueness" and "eggness" observation nodes hooked up to a central "blegg" category-membership node, such that I can use observations to update my beliefs about category-membership, and use my beliefs about category-membership to predict observations. The set of things I'll classify as a blegg with probability greater than p is conveniently visualized as an area with a boundary in blueness–eggness space, but the beliefs are the important thing. - -The "borders" metaphor is particularly galling if—[unlike the popular author](https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/31/the-parable-of-the-talents/)—you actually know math. - -https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hzuSDMx7pd2uxFc5w/causal-diagrams-and-causal-models - - - - - "Don't Revere the Bearer of Good Info" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tSgcorrgBnrCH8nL3/don-t-revere-the-bearer-of-good-info casuistry @@ -545,3 +535,11 @@ Steve said it's funny that Ziz and I are ragequitting over opposite things, and https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KmghfjH6RgXvoKruJ/hand-vs-fingers + +I don't _care_ if the blatantly-misleading statements were carefully worded to permit a true interpretation such that they're not technically "lying." + +This situation is _fucked_. I don't care whose "fault" it is. I don't want to "blame" anyone. But as the first step to making things less fucked, I need to _write about the world I see_—and you are, still, a pretty prominent part of my mental universe. + +Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal + +Heinlein