X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md;h=293aa2686eb332f5cfbd1744be763b25ad542f3d;hp=0a7a60251eba35092c540fb42574d7ff2dbfefc6;hb=6968b938c932c906a1630dbb1e74456ebf9ce38f;hpb=2aa6746ecee4345b734df74c031ef56521929bd1 diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 0a7a602..293aa26 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +Sections I should be able to easily make progress-per-minute on— +* Ideology is not the Movement +* Dr. Will Powers +* I Don't Do Policy +* Cara's Egregore +* Scott Alexander Understands Language +* Moral Error and Moral Disagreement + + Points to work in— * wipe culturally defined values: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/BkkwXtaTf5LvbA6HB/moral-error-and-moral-disagreement (this might have to go after Failed-Utopia #4-2) @@ -5,9 +14,9 @@ Points to work in— * the moment in October 2016 when I switched sides http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/late-onset/ http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/03/brand-rust/ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jNAAZ9XNyt82CXosr/mirrors-and-paintings -* explain the Singularity/paperclip terminology before use - -* the literature talks about crossdressing a lot, but I mostly just fantasize; dress-up isn't really convincing +Terminology to explain before use— +* Singularity/paperclip +* "non-exclusively androphilic" / nonhomosexual * not a theory of trans men @@ -42,9 +51,6 @@ What happens when every sensitive bookish male who thinks [it might be cool to b Anne Lawrence described autogynephiles as ["men who love women and want to become what they love."](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf) But it's worse than that. We're men who love what we _wish_ women were, and want to become _that_. - -* "The Opposite Sex" - * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite) * Superhappies empathic inference for not wanting to believe girls were different @@ -53,7 +59,6 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCsxiojX7BSLuuBgQ/the-super-happy-people-3-8 [TODO: my pseudobisexual moments (it's California in the year 2015) our analogues would make a good couple in a nearby alternate universe where at least one of us is female. "Exactly one," he said. "It's California in the year 2015," I said.] - https://fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/ "people who have sexual fetishes that can't possibly be realized using existing technology [...] like the guy who gets on by entropy decreasing in a closed system" @@ -318,7 +323,7 @@ Perhaps so. But back in 2009, **we did not anticipate that _whether or not I sho **To be fair, it's not obvious that I _shouldn't_ cut my dick off!** -I don't think I'm setting [my price for joining](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q8evewZW5SeidLdbA/your-price-for-joining) particularly high here? + [cruelty to ordinary people, optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex] @@ -426,3 +431,14 @@ Reading the things I do, and talking to the people I do, I see this pattern _ove All I've been trying to say is that, _in particular_, the word "woman" is such a noun. It _follows logically_ that, in particular, if _N_ := "woman", you can't define the word _woman_ any way you want. Maybe trans women _are_ women! But if you want people to agree to that word usage, you need to be able to _argue_ for why it makes sense; you can't just _define_ it to be true, and this is a _general_ principle of how language works, not something I made up on the spot in order to stigmatize trans people. + +> Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:04 PM +> So Katie and Seanan did end up coming over last night, but I wasn't very fun to be around because I was emotionally floored because Michael Vassar (!) said that something I said in an _Overcoming Bias_ comment thread was really creepy and that his first reaction was that I should be banned. And I remember lying in bed last night or this morning feeling sick about it, and trying to think about something not thematic, so that I could relax--and I couldn't think of anything. + +> But Vassar had a point, and I apologized, and I feel better now. + +> So I am broken and I have made terrible mistakes, but in my rationalist's splendor, all I can do is try to understand the facts of the matter and do better tomorrow. This, even as in my rationalist's splendor, I must predict that this is unlikely to actually work. + +> Michael fucking Vassar. Shit! + +I'm worried about the failure mode where bright young minds [lured in](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/construction-beacons/) by the beautiful propaganda about _systematically correct reasoning_, are instead recruited into what is, effectively, the Eliezer-Yudkowsky-and-Scott-Alexander fan club. \ No newline at end of file