"I Tell" check in
authorM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:01:45 +0000 (07:01 -0800)
committerM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:30:11 +0000 (08:30 -0800)
notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt
notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md

index c6bc99d..29bd690 100644 (file)
@@ -495,3 +495,7 @@ like [not being an astronaut](http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Feb/if-other-
 three worlds collide no such thing as love
 
 I would have hoped you'd be proud of me, as your (mass correspondence-course) student
+
+ People who spend their entire lives on the receiving end of the calm voice of [authority-backed-by-implied-violence](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/29/reflections-from-the-halfway-point/) might be justified in thinking that Slate Star mistake-theoretic ideals like "reason" and "debate" are for suckers: that's what their distribution of training data actually looks like!
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/dy7gkv/what_happened_to_me_and_why_i_think_women_need/
index e7aecc0..c1759e7 100644 (file)
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+As an illustration of how the hope for radical human enhancement is [fraught with technical difficulties](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQkELCGiGQwvrrp3L/growing-up-is-hard), ["Changing Emotions"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions) sketches a picture of just how difficult an actual male-to-female sex change would be.
 
-["Changing Emotions"]
+It would be hard to overstate how much of an impact that post had on me. 
 
 http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2004-September/008924.html
 [it's hard to overstate the impact this one post had on me (I've already linked it 8 times on this blog)]