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4 years agodrafting "Teleology"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Apr 2020 07:09:25 +0000 (00:09 -0700)]
drafting "Teleology"

4 years agodrafting "Peering Through Reverent Fingers"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Apr 2020 07:08:49 +0000 (00:08 -0700)]
drafting "Peering Through Reverent Fingers"

4 years agodrafting "The Reverse Murray Rule"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Apr 2020 07:08:15 +0000 (00:08 -0700)]
drafting "The Reverse Murray Rule"

4 years agoput short slug in Simple Footnotes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Apr 2020 05:13:24 +0000 (22:13 -0700)]
put short slug in Simple Footnotes

Currently, "Does General Intelligence ...?" and "Reply to Ozymandias
on Fully Consensual Gender" are both on the front page, and the
earlier-on-the-page footnote fragments clobber later ones of the same
number. Including part of the post slug in the fragment solves the
problem, and I'm going all the way to five segments because you could
imagine two "Reply to Author on Topic" posts being on the same page
(even though I'm likely to abandon this plugin (for future posts, or
altogether) because native-Markdown footnotes (those are a thing!!)
are friendlier to read and write than the `[ref]` notation.

4 years agoedit dimensions of Reddit share SVG
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Apr 2020 02:04:40 +0000 (19:04 -0700)]
edit dimensions of Reddit share SVG

I already had a "height" directive in the HTML to make it display the
same height as the Twitter button, but Firefox's "reader mode" was
showing the enormous full-size version. It's neat that you can edit
SVGs as text!

4 years agobetter wordcount for "... to Make Predictions" ref in "Reply to the Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Apr 2020 23:11:05 +0000 (16:11 -0700)]
better wordcount for "... to Make Predictions" ref in "Reply to the Unit"

I don't know where I got the "7500" from? When I copy the text
(incl. footnotes) into Emacs and M-= it, I get 6558, and `wc` gives
6522—maybe some other algorithm I used at the time counted "http://"
as a word when these didn't?

4 years agocheck in
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4 years agobegin "Jesus Two"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 1 Apr 2020 07:27:17 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
begin "Jesus Two"

4 years agobegin "The Reverse Murray Rule"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 1 Apr 2020 07:27:02 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
begin "The Reverse Murray Rule"

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4 years agocheck in; incl. "Hrunkner Unnerby" stub
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4 years agoHuman Diversity: my excuse
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:03:53 +0000 (00:03 -0700)]
Human Diversity: my excuse

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: the item characteristic curve
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Mar 2020 05:17:21 +0000 (22:17 -0700)]
Human Diversity review: the item characteristic curve

4 years agocheck in (including pruning further response to Ozy for salvage)
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4 years agoHuman Diversity: the meaning of test bias
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:15:56 +0000 (23:15 -0700)]
Human Diversity: the meaning of test bias

4 years agonotes from "Bias in Mental Testing"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:20:27 +0000 (21:20 -0700)]
notes from "Bias in Mental Testing"

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review—population differences in g: causal hypotheses
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:44:18 +0000 (11:44 -0700)]
Human Diversity review—population differences in g: causal hypotheses

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4 years agolink to post revision history; and, compact Reddit share button
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:41:59 +0000 (23:41 -0700)]
link to post revision history; and, compact Reddit share button

I love having my blog in Git! I should do this for my real-name blog!

The Reddit widget doesn't even seem to be working right (I think it's
supposed to display the score of posts that have been submitted)?

4 years agolink to Archives page grouped by month; drop Trigger Warning page
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:21:28 +0000 (23:21 -0700)]
link to Archives page grouped by month; drop Trigger Warning page

4 years agofix busted italics
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:07:52 +0000 (23:07 -0700)]
fix busted italics

4 years agopublish "Relative Gratitude and the Great Plague of 2020"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Mar 2020 05:21:23 +0000 (22:21 -0700)]
publish "Relative Gratitude and the Great Plague of 2020"

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4 years agodrafting "Relative Gratitude and ..."
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4 years agoHuman Diversity review: d=1 meaning, my heritage
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:18:22 +0000 (11:18 -0700)]
Human Diversity review: d=1 meaning, my heritage

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: the axis
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Mar 2020 06:33:03 +0000 (23:33 -0700)]
Human Diversity review: the axis

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: more on Schelling, creep towards the elephant
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:28:58 +0000 (09:28 -0700)]
Human Diversity review: more on Schelling, creep towards the elephant

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: doing it on purpose
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:08:48 +0000 (00:08 -0700)]
Human Diversity review: doing it on purpose

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4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Saturday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 15 Mar 2020 05:40:01 +0000 (22:40 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Saturday)

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review drafting (Thursday morning): appeal of the slate
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:56:06 +0000 (09:56 -0700)]
Human Diversity review drafting (Thursday morning): appeal of the slate

4 years agopoking at Human Diversity review draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:57:01 +0000 (23:57 -0700)]
poking at Human Diversity review draft

4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Wednesday morning)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:01:52 +0000 (11:01 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Wednesday morning)

4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Tuesday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:33:42 +0000 (23:33 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Tuesday)

4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Monday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:22:14 +0000 (10:22 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Monday)

4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Sunday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:09:42 +0000 (09:09 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Sunday)

4 years agodraft speculative pitch of Human Diversity review to Less Wrong
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:09:04 +0000 (09:09 -0700)]
draft speculative pitch of Human Diversity review to Less Wrong

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: outline the hazardous/irrelevant second part
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Mar 2020 22:58:08 +0000 (15:58 -0700)]
Human Diversity review: outline the hazardous/irrelevant second part

I don't think my draft is hitting points in the right order (and this
is worth getting right), so tried I sketching out some bullet points
to keep me on track.

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review drafting Thursday "lunch": inference
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Mar 2020 20:54:19 +0000 (12:54 -0800)]
Human Diversity review drafting Thursday "lunch": inference

4 years agoThursday morning pre-dayjob Human Diversity review drafting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Mar 2020 16:59:29 +0000 (08:59 -0800)]
Thursday morning pre-dayjob Human Diversity review drafting

4 years agoHuman Diversity drafting and notes-shovel
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Mar 2020 04:41:05 +0000 (20:41 -0800)]
Human Diversity drafting and notes-shovel

4 years agoHuman Diversity pre-dayjob Tuesday review drafting: positioning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:07:44 +0000 (09:07 -0800)]
Human Diversity pre-dayjob Tuesday review drafting: positioning

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review Monday pre-dayjob drafting: topology is crazy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Mar 2020 17:01:47 +0000 (09:01 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Monday pre-dayjob drafting: topology is crazy

Hopefully I'll be able to write more today! But I need to do some
dayjob work first!

4 years agoHuman Diversity review drafting: algebraic topology
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Mar 2020 05:40:26 +0000 (21:40 -0800)]
Human Diversity review drafting: algebraic topology

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4 years agoHuman Diversity after-Leap Day drafting session 1: aspirations
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Mar 2020 22:29:04 +0000 (14:29 -0800)]
Human Diversity after-Leap Day drafting session 1: aspirations

4 years agopublish "If in Some Smothering Dreams" and "Cloud Vision"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:04:01 +0000 (00:04 -0800)]
publish "If in Some Smothering Dreams" and "Cloud Vision"

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4 years ago2020 year in copyright footer
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2020 year in copyright footer

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review—Part III: ACE model, polygenic scores
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Feb 2020 07:02:12 +0000 (23:02 -0800)]
Human Diversity review—Part III: ACE model, polygenic scores

4 years agocheck in
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4 years agosplit Sequencing backstory off from "I Tell Myself ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Feb 2020 01:14:30 +0000 (17:14 -0800)]
split Sequencing backstory off from "I Tell Myself ..."

The part that's just about how classic OB/LW formed my views will be a
lot easier to finish, and doesn't need pseudonyms (because there's no
way to credibly construe it as an attack, whereas the
institutional-betrayal narrative could be), so it can be its own post.

Instead of "Great Teacher"/"Popular Author" as the pseudonyms for
Yudkowsky/Alexander (respectively), I've decided I like "Robert
Stadler"/"Arthur Blair". If you're interested enough to be reading the
commit messages (!?) of my blog, you can probably figure out the
references.

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: altitude, introducing the ACE model
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:34:31 +0000 (15:34 -0800)]
Human Diversity review: altitude, introducing the ACE model

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: drop TODO flags, population diff meanings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:55:23 +0000 (14:55 -0800)]
Human Diversity review: drop TODO flags, population diff meanings

4 years agocheck in
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4 years agostarting to draft "Cloud Vision"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Feb 2020 21:02:00 +0000 (13:02 -0800)]
starting to draft "Cloud Vision"

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review Wed. morning drafting: residual differences
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:30:23 +0000 (08:30 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Wed. morning drafting: residual differences

4 years agoHuman Diversity Presidential session 5: cross-cultural gap
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:42:26 +0000 (20:42 -0800)]
Human Diversity Presidential session 5: cross-cultural gap

4 years agoHuman Diversity Presidential session 4: Holland, Buckner
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:15:08 +0000 (20:15 -0800)]
Human Diversity Presidential session 4: Holland, Buckner

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Presidential sprint session 3: univariate fallacy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 02:39:01 +0000 (18:39 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Presidential sprint session 3: univariate fallacy

Is it bad to treat a topic in passing when you still want to cover it
in more depth in a future post? (I wanted to work in the mathematics
of the "typical set" into this graf, but I didn't see how to make it
fit.) Maybe it's good.

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Presidential sprint session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 01:06:25 +0000 (17:06 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Presidential sprint session 2

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Presidential sprint session 1: appendices
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:28:39 +0000 (16:28 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Presidential sprint session 1: appendices

4 years agoHuman Diversity backreading, note complication
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:42:32 +0000 (13:42 -0800)]
Human Diversity backreading, note complication

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4 years agoHuman Diversity sprint session 3: standing variation and introgression
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:28:18 +0000 (19:28 -0800)]
Human Diversity sprint session 3: standing variation and introgression

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Sunday night sprint session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:44:56 +0000 (18:44 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Sunday night sprint session 2

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Sunday night sprint session 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:24:06 +0000 (18:24 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Sunday night sprint session 1

4 years agosort-of, kind-of working on Human Diversity review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:00:54 +0000 (18:00 -0800)]
sort-of, kind-of working on Human Diversity review

Just because tomorrow is Presidents' Day is no excuse to slack off! I
want to finish this review! For Science! For the future!

4 years agocheck in
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4 years agodrafting Human Diversity book review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:57:23 +0000 (22:57 -0800)]
drafting Human Diversity book review

4 years ago"If in Some Smothering Dreams"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:57:06 +0000 (22:57 -0800)]
"If in Some Smothering Dreams"

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4 years agonotes after a phone conversation
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:15:15 +0000 (20:15 -0800)]
notes after a phone conversation

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4 years agocopy edits and next steps
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:52:01 +0000 (19:52 -0800)]
copy edits and next steps

I think I got the plural "equilibria" right the first time, and ispell
"fixed" it

4 years agopublish "Origins of Unfairness" review and scrap notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:19:58 +0000 (22:19 -0800)]
publish "Origins of Unfairness" review and scrap notes

4 years agofinish drafting "Origins of Unfairness" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:17:33 +0000 (22:17 -0800)]
finish drafting "Origins of Unfairness" review

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4 years agodrafting "Origins of Unfairness" review
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drafting "Origins of Unfairness" review

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4 years agocompiling notes for "Origins of Unfairness" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Jan 2020 07:01:44 +0000 (23:01 -0800)]
compiling notes for "Origins of Unfairness" review

4 years ago"I Tell" check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 13 Jan 2020 02:41:19 +0000 (18:41 -0800)]
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4 years agoMarkdown footnote styling!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:05:49 +0000 (23:05 -0800)]
Markdown footnote styling!

To think that I checked in that special footnotes plugin (2980fe3c
"not thinking in nested parentheticals vs. installing a footnote
plugin", 19 Feb 2018), when it turns out that footnote capability was
part of Markdown itself all along!

4 years ago"I Tell": breakup song choice footnote
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:03:50 +0000 (23:03 -0800)]
"I Tell": breakup song choice footnote

4 years ago"Terrorist Memeplexes" personal section anchor
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Jan 2020 07:44:46 +0000 (23:44 -0800)]
"Terrorist Memeplexes" personal section anchor

4 years agotidy section placeholder
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 2 Jan 2020 07:25:53 +0000 (23:25 -0800)]
tidy section placeholder

4 years agocheck in; merge sections into "I Tell Myself" draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 2 Jan 2020 04:36:02 +0000 (20:36 -0800)]
check in; merge sections into "I Tell Myself" draft

I'm now feeling much more optimistic about not having to finish this
memoir!

4 years agofix "Variable Question Fallacies" link
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:21:48 +0000 (09:21 -0800)]
fix "Variable Question Fallacies" link

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4 years agotweaks
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tweaks