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diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
index 9928e90..ecad1bd 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
+++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
@@ -192,3 +192,7 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rhg27MqkxJsnZwoYg/the-codex-skeptic-faq
 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational
 
 https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/tetlock-and-the-taliban
 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational
 
 https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/tetlock-and-the-taliban

+
+Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse
+https://archive.is/aVTpr
+

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md
index e9b4240..2d40acc 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md
+++ b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md
@@ -366,6 +366,11 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters
 
 If Scott Alexander's "The Categories Were Made For Man ..." had never been published, would we still be talking about dolphins and trees in the same way?
 
 
 If Scott Alexander's "The Categories Were Made For Man ..." had never been published, would we still be talking about dolphins and trees in the same way?
 

+Scott has so many fans—
+https://jasoncrawford.org/guide-to-scott-alexander-and-slate-star-codex
+https://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexandria/
+https://guzey.com/favorite/slate-star-codex/
+

 Nate on dolphins (June 2021)—a dogwhistle??
 https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1401670792409014273
 Yudkowsky retweeted Nate on dolphins—
 Nate on dolphins (June 2021)—a dogwhistle??
 https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1401670792409014273
 Yudkowsky retweeted Nate on dolphins—


@@ -379,3 +384,12 @@ https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721
 "Hero Licensing": to provide an earnest-token of all the techniques I couldn't show
 
 uncritically (uncharacteristically uncritically) taking the newly-ascendant gender-identity theory for granted ("lots of women wouldn't be particularly disturbed if they had a male body; the ones we know as 'trans' are just the ones with unusually strong female gender identities"), without considering the obvious-in-retrospect hypothesis that "guy who speculates about his female analogue on a transhumanist mailing list in 2004" and "guy who thinks he might be a trans women in Berkeley 2016" are the same guy.
 "Hero Licensing": to provide an earnest-token of all the techniques I couldn't show
 
 uncritically (uncharacteristically uncritically) taking the newly-ascendant gender-identity theory for granted ("lots of women wouldn't be particularly disturbed if they had a male body; the ones we know as 'trans' are just the ones with unusually strong female gender identities"), without considering the obvious-in-retrospect hypothesis that "guy who speculates about his female analogue on a transhumanist mailing list in 2004" and "guy who thinks he might be a trans women in Berkeley 2016" are the same guy.

+
+https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/logical_dt/?l=5gc
+It even leaked into Big Yud!!! "Counterfactuals were made for humanity, not humanity for counterfactuals."
+
+If hiring a community matchmaker was worth it, why don't my concerns count, too?
+
+When I protested that I wasn't expecting a science fictional Utopia of pure reason, but just for people to continue to be right about things they already got right in 2008, he said, "Doesn't matter—doesn't _fucking_ matter."
+
+humans have honor instead of TDT. "That's right! I'm appealing to your honor!"

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index d4f2a9d..4ded1c2 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -2795,3 +2795,13 @@ https://www.glowfic.com/posts/4508?page=14
 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02005-9
 
 https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/de-platformed-the-musical
 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02005-9
 
 https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/de-platformed-the-musical

+
+
+The Codex paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374.pdf
+> We found that, in response to simple prompts like `def gender(x):`, the generations often assumed binary gender for both single-and  multi-line autocompletions
+> [...]
+> Prompts for probes related to classification of protected classes are often leading in their own right
+
+https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/should-public-schools-be-allowed
+
+https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/41402/i-don-t-think-this-pronouns-thing-will-work-the-way-tras-want-it-to

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 625dce6..4f2102a 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 Queue—
 _ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
 Queue—
 _ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic

-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
-

 _ I Don't Do Policy
 _ I Don't Do Policy

-_ Happy Meal
-

 
 2021 significant posts—
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 
 2021 significant posts—
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data

+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America

 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
 _ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
 _ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal

-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning 

 
 Minor queue—
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 
 Minor queue—
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War


@@ -24,10 +21,9 @@ _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
 _ Timelines
 _ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
 _ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
 _ Timelines
 _ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"

-
+_ Happy Meal

 
 More minor or Needs Development—
 
 More minor or Needs Development—

-_ Episode Review: Star Trek: Voyager S7EX "Body and Soul"

 _ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
 _ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
 _ I Wish You Well
 _ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
 _ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
 _ I Wish You Well


@@ -45,8 +41,8 @@ _ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20
 LW—
 _ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
 _ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars
 LW—
 _ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
 _ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars

+_ Comment on "The Logic of Indirect Speech" (multi-receivers vs. uncertainty about a single recieiver)

 _ Feature Selection
 _ Feature Selection

-_ Connotation as Optimization

 _ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning
 _ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
 _ Longtermism + Hinge of History = Shorttermism (not my original idea, but don't remember whose blog I read this on, so I'll write my own version)
 _ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning
 _ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
 _ Longtermism + Hinge of History = Shorttermism (not my original idea, but don't remember whose blog I read this on, so I'll write my own version)