From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 07:11:53 +0000 (-0800) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=71058744ac14c8997a54feaea90788a3ab0c7d59 check in --- diff --git a/content/2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md b/content/2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md index a2f0c9b..a88f9e1 100644 --- a/content/2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md +++ b/content/2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ I guess I haven't made any new posts here in almost two months?—which is not g * a technical post about how imperfect measurements are subject to [regression to the mean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean), which (unfortunately! _really genuinely_ unfortunately!) quantitatively weakens the standard reassurance of, "Oh, no one should feel threatened by discussion of group differences, because the statistics obviously don't apply to any one individual" * I haven't done any serious math in a while and I'm afraid that learning and explaining the details here could take me _many_ hours * a technical post about using [naïve Bayes models](http://lesswrong.com/lw/o8/conditional_independence_and_naive_bayes/) for sex categorization - * I never got very far into [_Daphne Koller and the Methods of Rationality_](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-models) (I know; I like my title better), but I'd like to dig into it again if I can somehow find the time + * I never got very far into [_Daphne Koller and the Methods of Rationality_](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-models) (I know; I like my title better), but I'd like to dig into it again if I can somehow find the time * a post about how I'm nervous about Codes of Conduct in the open-source world being used as an ideological-conformity enforcement mechanism, in contrast to their laudable ostensible purpose of preventing harrassment, _&c._ (working title: "Codes of Convergence; Or, [Smile More](https://genius.com/7888863)") * a critical appraisal of the social phenomenon of self-declared non-binary gender identities (working title: "'But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means': Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology") * a post about the mechanisms of social change and how there might be a role for a _very narrowly-targeted_ form of political activism where you try to give people more accurate factual information, rather than lobbying for any particular concrete policy (working title: "An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History Yelling, 'Wait! I Like the Idea, but the Execution Needs Work!'") diff --git a/content/drafts/cloud-vision.md b/content/drafts/cloud-vision.md index a37f976..d76ba2d 100644 --- a/content/drafts/cloud-vision.md +++ b/content/drafts/cloud-vision.md @@ -15,3 +15,11 @@ I think of my experience playing with [FaceApp](https://www.faceapp.com/), the _ This is [Cultural Revolution](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2671118186) shit! This is [Lysenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism)-tier mindfuckery up in here! coronavirus, Elizabeth Warren + +https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1230577418559270913 + + + +> "We must be guided by solidarity, not stigma," the director general of the World Health Organization warned on Saturday. "The greatest enemy we face is not the virus itself; it’s the stigma that turns us against each other." +https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1229832977472946184 +https://archive.is/1pQ4p diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 2d028a0..fe0d805 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 24 Feb ✓ If in Some Smothering Dreams You Too Could Pace (UTT) 25 Feb _ Cloud Vision (UUT) -26 Feb _ Telelogy (UUT) +26 Feb _ Teleology (UUT) 28 Feb _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT) _ Sexual Dimorphism, Yudkowsky's Sequences, and Me