X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fmemoir-sections.md;fp=notes%2Fmemoir-sections.md;h=755ee9bc742e54bda52a14fd1fea41fa05040c56;hp=0dc643f671b66dc68dc82cf9efdf6104fa473424;hb=32482b29a07ab33f5876eb82d5c3d80cb95cb9fe;hpb=588f6834eb8ae1272babaec5a827474d86a2540d diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md index 0dc643f..755ee9b 100644 --- a/notes/memoir-sections.md +++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md @@ -4,23 +4,20 @@ pt. 4 edit tier— ✓ revise "too good a writer" to be more explicit "someone could be that naive" ✓ footnote about how I could be blamed for being too credulous? ✓ Stephen Jay Gould -_ emphasize that the philosophy-of-language thing is much worse -_ edit post to clarify "nudging the cognition" +✓ social gender, hair color, and "believing in" +✓ emphasize that the philosophy-of-language thing was much worse +✓ Feynman, "pretend that the master truthseekers of any age of history" +✓ Dawkins and Coyne and Hooven +✓ edit post to clarify "nudging the cognition" _ Tail's objection to FFS example _ Brennan "everyone else should participate" needs more wording adjustments _ Sept. 2020 clarification noted that a distinction should be made between _ emphasize that 2018 thread was policing TERF-like pronoun usage, not just disapproving of gender-based pronouns -_ emphasize that the philosophy-of-language thing was MUCH worse _ note the "larger than protons" concession _ look for a place to link http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/discursive-warfare-and-faction-formation/ -_ parenthetical defending literal fraud? _ the mailing list post noted it as a "common sexual fantasy" -_ Feynman, "pretend that the master truthseekers of any age of history" -_ Dawkins (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/20/richard-dawkins-loses-humanist-of-the-year-trans-comments) and Jerry Coyne (https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/08/27/on-helen-joyces-trans/) and Hooven (https://www.thefp.com/p/carole-hooven-why-i-left-harvard) -_ it's gotten worse in the past 10–20 years -_ social gender, hair color, and "believing in" _ cite more sneers; use a footnote to pack in as many as possible - +_ add headers to pt. 2 and link back? time-sensitive globals TODOs— ✓ consult Said @@ -2861,14 +2858,3 @@ https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1356494097511370752 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1356494399945854976 > ...he tried to avoid telling outright lies or making public confusions worse, but mainly got by on having a much-sharper-than-average dividing line in his mine between peer pressure against saying something, and that thing being *false*. That's definitely most of how I do it. - -------- - -> Anyone who's worked with me on public comms knows that among my first instructions is "We only use valid arguments here." (Which makes hiring writers difficult; they have to know the difference.) I've never called for lying to the public. Label the shit you make up as made-up. -https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1760133310024671583 - - -> there comes a point in self-deception where it becomes morally indistinguishable from lying. - - -