memoir: next pipeline step—revise roughy outline notes from email notes

diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
index f392d89..1f1b8e1 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
+++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
@@ -361,7 +361,15 @@ Michael said that me and Jess together have more moral authority]
 
 [TODO: wrapping up with Scott; Kelsey; high and low Church https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/04/some-clarifications-on-rationalist-blogging/]
 
 
 [TODO: wrapping up with Scott; Kelsey; high and low Church https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/04/some-clarifications-on-rationalist-blogging/]
 

-[TODO: Ben reiterated that the most important thing was explaining why I've written them off; self-promotion imposes a cost on others; Jessica on creating clarity; Michael on less precise is more violent]
+[TODO small section: Ben reiterated that the most important thing was explaining why I've written them off; self-promotion imposes a cost on others; Jessica on creating clarity; Michael on less precise is more violent]
+
+[TODO small section: with Ben and Anna about monastaries]
+
+[TODO small section: concern about bad faith nitpicking]
+
+[TODO: Jessica's acquaintance said I should have known that wouldn't work]
+
+[TODO: Ben on Eliza the bot therapist analogy

 
 [TODO: after some bouncing off the posse, what was originally an email draft became a public _Less Wrong_ post, "Where to Draw the Boundaries?" (note, plural)
  * Wasn't the math overkill?
 
 [TODO: after some bouncing off the posse, what was originally an email draft became a public _Less Wrong_ post, "Where to Draw the Boundaries?" (note, plural)
  * Wasn't the math overkill?


@@ -370,20 +378,50 @@ Michael said that me and Jess together have more moral authority]
  * no politics! just philosophy!
  * Ben on Michael on whether we are doing politics; "friendship, supplication, and economics"
  * I could see that I'm including subtext and expecting people to only engage with the text, but if we're not going to get into full-on gender-politics on Less Wrong, but gender politics is motivating an epistemology error, I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do! I'm pretty constrained here!
  * no politics! just philosophy!
  * Ben on Michael on whether we are doing politics; "friendship, supplication, and economics"
  * I could see that I'm including subtext and expecting people to only engage with the text, but if we're not going to get into full-on gender-politics on Less Wrong, but gender politics is motivating an epistemology error, I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do! I'm pretty constrained here!

+ * 

  * I had already poisoned the well with "Blegg Mode" the other month, bad decision
  * We lost?! How could we lose??!!?!?
 ]
 
  * I had already poisoned the well with "Blegg Mode" the other month, bad decision
  * We lost?! How could we lose??!!?!?
 ]
 

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+[TODO: my reluctance to write a memoir, displacement behavior
+Ben thought it was imporant on 30 Apr, 12 Aug , I confess to being stuck on 9 Nov
+I write more about the philosophy of language instead
+"Univariate fallacy" also a concession
+]
+

 
 

+curation hopes ... 22 Jun: I'm expressing a little bit of bitterness that a mole rats post got curated https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fDKZZtTMTcGqvHnXd/naked-mole-rats-a-case-study-in-biological-weirdness

 
 

-[TODO: I was floored; math and wellness month 
- Anna doesn't want money from me
- scuffle on "Yes Requires the Possibility of No"
- LessWrong FAQ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MqrzczdGhQCRePgqN/feedback-requested-draft-of-a-new-about-welcome-page-for#iqEEme6M2JmZEXYAk ]
+scuffle on "Yes Requires the Possibility of No"
+LessWrong FAQ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MqrzczdGhQCRePgqN/feedback-requested-draft-of-a-new-about-welcome-page-for#iqEEme6M2JmZEXYAk ]

 
 

-[TODO: more blogging (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5aqumaym7Jd2qhDcy/containment-thread-on-the-motivation-and-political-context), 2019 Christmas party, disclaimer on "Categories Were Made"]
-["Univariate fallacy" also a concession]
+
+[TODO section on factional conflict:
+Michael on Anna as an enemy
+24 Aug: I had told Anna about Michael's "enemy combatants" metaphor, and how I originally misunderstood
+me being regarded as Michael's pawn
+assortment of agendas
+mutualist pattern where Michael by himself isn't very useful for scholarship (he just says a lot of crazy-sounding things and refuses to explain them), but people like Sarah and me can write intelligible things that secretly benefited from much less legible conversations with Michael.
+]
+
+[TODO: Yudkowsky throwing NRx under the bus; tragedy of recursive silencing
+15 Sep Glen Weyl apology
+]
+
+[TODO: Ziz incident; more upset about gender validation than the felony charges, which were equally ridiculous and more obviously linked to physical violence
+complicity with injustice "Ziz isn't going to be a problem for you anymore"
+]
+
+[TODO: a culture that has gone off the rails; my warning points to Vaniver]
+
+[TODO: plan to reach out to Rick]
+
+[TODO: Christmas party
+people reading funny GPT-2 quotes
+Tsvi said it would be sad if I had to leave the Bay Area
+motivation deflates after Christmas victory
+5 Jan memoir as nuke
+]

 
 (There's another very important part of the story that would fit around here chronologically, but unfortunately, it's not my story to tell.)
 
 
 (There's another very important part of the story that would fit around here chronologically, but unfortunately, it's not my story to tell.)
 

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
index d1f4fc3..8bbfad6 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
+++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ _ explain first use of Center for Applied Rationality
 _ erasing agency of Michael's friends, construed as a pawn
 _ Anna thought badmouthing Michael was OK by Michael's standards
 _ chat with "Wilhelm" during March 2019 minor psych episode
 _ erasing agency of Michael's friends, construed as a pawn
 _ Anna thought badmouthing Michael was OK by Michael's standards
 _ chat with "Wilhelm" during March 2019 minor psych episode

+_ explain the adversarial pressure on privacy norms

 
 people to consult before publishing, for feedback or right of objection—
 _ Iceman
 
 people to consult before publishing, for feedback or right of objection—
 _ Iceman

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index be01559..92bcfcd 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 Minor—
 _ Timelines
 _ Xpression Camera Is the Uniquely Best Piece of Software in the World
 Minor—
 _ Timelines
 _ Xpression Camera Is the Uniquely Best Piece of Software in the World

+_ ASL Is Not a Language

 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus
 _ my medianworld: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus
 _ my medianworld: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639