[^signaling-reasons]: This was brazen cowardice. Today, I would notice that if "for signaling reasons", people don't Like comments that make insightful and accurate predictions about contemporary social trends, then subscribers to our collective discourse will be less prepared for a world in which those trends have progressed further.
-A few weeks later, I moved out of my mom's house in Walnut Creek to an apartment on the correct side of the [Caldecott tunnel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Tunnel), in Berkeley, closer to other people in the robot-cult scene and with a shorter train ride to my coding dayjob in San Francisco.
+<a id="correct-side-of-the-tunnel"></a>A few weeks later, I moved out of my mom's house in Walnut Creek to an apartment on the correct side of the [Caldecott tunnel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Tunnel), in Berkeley, closer to other people in the robot-cult scene and with a shorter train ride to my coding dayjob in San Francisco.
(I would later change my mind about which side of the tunnel is the correct one.)
Elaine, probably, would object, if she knew. But if she didn't know that Chad _specifically_ was using Multigen _specifically_ to generate erotica of her _specifically_, she must have known that this was an obvious use-case of the technology. If she didn't want people using generative AI to visualize her body in sexually suggestive situations, then _why was she working to advance the state of generative AI?_ Really, she had no one to blame but herself.
-Just as he was about to come, he was interrupted by an instant messenger notification. It was from someone named Ada Sheffield, saying she'd like to discuss an issue in the Multigen codebase at his convenience.
+Just as he was about to come, he was interrupted by an instant messenger notification. It was from someone named Isabella Huntley, saying she'd like to discuss an issue in the Multigen codebase at his convenience.
_Tranny or real?_ Chad wondered, clicking on her profie.
-The profile text indicated that Ada was on the newly formed capability risk evaluations team. Chad groaned. _Yuddites._ Fears of artificial intelligence destroying humanity had been trending on social and traditional media lately. Magma had commissioned a team with the purpose to monitor and audit the company's AI projects for the emergence of unforeseen and potentially dangerous capabilities, although the exact scope of their power was unclear and probably subject to the outcome of future intra-company political struggles.
+The profile text indicated that Isabella was on the newly formed capability risk evaluations team. Chad groaned. _Yuddites._ Fears of artificial intelligence destroying humanity had been trending on social and traditional media lately. Magma had commissioned a team with the purpose to monitor and audit the company's AI projects for the emergence of unforeseen and potentially dangerous capabilities, although the exact scope of their power was unclear and probably subject to the outcome of future intra-company political struggles.
Chad took a dim view of the AI risk crowd. Given what deep learning could do nowadays, it didn't feel quite right to dismiss their doomsday stories as science fiction, exactly, but Chad maintained it was the _wrong subgenre_ of science fiction. His team was building the computer from _Star Trek_, not _A Fire Upon the Deep_: tools, not creatures. Despite the brain-inspired name, "neural networks" were ultimately just a technique for fitting a piecewise linear function to training data. If it was counterintuitive how much you could get done with a piecewise linear function fitted to _the entire internet_, previous generations must have found it equally counterintuitive to how how much you could get done with millions of arithmetic operations per second. It was a new era of technology, not a new era of life.
-It was perhaps because of his skepticism rather than in spite of it that he had volunteered to be the Multigen team's designated contact person for the risk evals team (which was no doubt why Ada had messaged him). No one else had volunteered at the meeting when it came up, and Chad had been slightly curious what "capability risk evaluations" would even entail.
+It was perhaps because of his skepticism rather than in spite of it that he had volunteered to be the Multigen team's designated contact person for the risk evals team (which was no doubt why Isabella had messaged him). No one else had volunteered at the meeting when it came up, and Chad had been slightly curious what "capability risk evaluations" would even entail.
-Well, now he would find out. He washed his hands and messaged Ada back, offering to hop on a quick video call.
+Well, now he would find out. He washed his hands and messaged Isabella back, offering to hop on a quick video call.
-_Definitely a tranny_, thought Chad, as Ada's face appeared on screen.
+_Definitely a tranny_, thought Chad, as Isabella's face appeared on screen.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything important," she said.
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+Title: On the Run (working title)
+Date: 2023-08-21 12:00
+Category: other
+Tags: anecdotal
+Status: draft
+
+> _I don't care about what all the others say
+> Well, I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I
+> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home
+> But home's a place that I have never known_
+>
+> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_
+
+I'll be moving the week after next, on some philosopher's birthday or the anniversary of a national tragedy, to a studio back on the correct side of the Caldecott Tunnel ([now that I've learned my lesson about](/2023/Jul/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer/#correct-side-of-the-tunnel) which side of the tunnel is correct).
+
+Here in the part of Berkeley that's secretly Oakland, there used to be a "free store" on the corner—shelves for people to leave unwanted consumer goods and to take them to a good home. It's gone now, due to some combination of adverse attention from city municipal code inspectors and a fire, which means I need to find some other place to dump my spare junk in the next week and a half.
+
+Now there's a butcher paper sign on the fence with a pen on a string, asking community members to write a note on what the free store meant to them.
+
+One of the messages reads:
+
+> i'm a (very broke) trans woman
+> and i don't often feel great about
+> my body, but there are a few items
+> that i found here that fit me in a way
+> thats very affirming to me
> —"Eugene" by Greg Egan
(post for leaving Berkeley)
-> _I don't care about what all the others say
-> Well I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I
-> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home
-> But home's a place that I have never known_
->
-> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_
> When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
> The truth is great, and shall prevail,
SK on never making a perfectly correct point
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P3FQNvnW8Cz42QBuA/dialogue-on-appeals-to-consequences#Z8haBdrGiRQcGSXye
+
+Scott on puberty blockers, dreadful: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-fetishes
+
+https://jdpressman.com/2023/08/28/agi-ruin-and-the-road-to-iconoclasm.html
+
> The fascinating thing to me, is that despite being a quite gender conforming (and non-AGP) straight guy, when I read his description of his underlying desires it resonated. I could have written the exact same thing with one minor and meaning preserving word swap.
(swapping "mine" for "me" in "wanting the soul behind those eyes to be me)
> The most obvious way to fulfil this desire isn't "become a woman", but to own a woman [...] And if "owning" a woman is too unthinkable, you might come up with creative solutions.
+
+https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/men-consume-relationships-women-produce
_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+
+
_ If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them (April 2019–January 2021)
_ Agreeing With Stalin in Ways that Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles (February 2021)
-_ Zevi's Choice (April 2021–April 2022)
-_ Standing Under the Same Sky (December 2022)
-_ The Last Indictment (January 2023–July 2023)
+_ Standing Under the Same Sky (April 2021–December 2022)
Minor—
+_ Fake Deeply
_ horror of gender
_ subspace
_ newer Haskell surveys?
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