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17 months agodrop images into multi-product review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:31:27 +0000 (09:31 -0700)]
drop images into multi-product review

17 months agomemoir: reducing negativity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Oct 2022 04:44:52 +0000 (21:44 -0700)]
memoir: reducing negativity

17 months agomemoir: Jessica help on "Optimized for Deception"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:25:15 +0000 (15:25 -0700)]
memoir: Jessica help on "Optimized for Deception"

17 months agomemoir progress metrics
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:21:19 +0000 (08:21 -0700)]
memoir progress metrics

This would be very Goodhartable (and doesn't take into account that
blockquotes or pre-written content from earlier notes/drafts getting
pasted into the ms. is easier than new ms. material), but I think it
does show that I started taking things more seriously in July ("An
Egoist Faith" having been published on 24 June).

I'd have to hit 1265 each today and tomorrow in order to match
August. (Monday I have to dayjob, and Alex Mennen's lecture series is
covering spectral graph theory.) That's very ambitious, but not, I
think, out of the question—if I take myself seriously.

17 months agocheck in, including Signal review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Oct 2022 06:11:50 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
check in, including Signal review

17 months agoorganizing immediate TODOs ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:59:59 +0000 (12:59 -0700)]
organizing immediate TODOs ...

17 months agocheck in ...
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check in ...

I'm here; I'm oriented to the ms.; issuing a commit now so I can
continue to build on a clean staging area.

17 months agoJanet Mock quotepost
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:40:54 +0000 (11:40 -0700)]
Janet Mock quotepost

Having trouble getting started today—probably a mistake to have left
my phone on (thinking that I would use it to review Signal
history). Getting this filler post ready to queue is something?

The Doberman in the new Super Auto Pets is an interesting pivot unit?
But if I wanted to live, I wouldn't be thinking of Super Auto Pets.

If I just—keep the watch running, and force myself to spend time with
the ms., text will happen?

17 months agocheck in
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17 months agothe erotica tools post incl. silicone products, not just deep learning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:07:57 +0000 (23:07 -0700)]
the erotica tools post incl. silicone products, not just deep learning

17 months agomemoir net fetch chores
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:06:18 +0000 (23:06 -0700)]
memoir net fetch chores

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agomemoir: yank out a pt. 4
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:01:26 +0000 (22:01 -0700)]
memoir: yank out a pt. 4

Something feels wrong about the thought of mirroring a 50K word post
on Less Wrong. People would have to scroll down too far to read the
comments, and I want people to read the comments? Page load time on
that bloated JavaScript site? (Shouldn't be an issue; Jessica's
dramapost is slow to load, but that's almost certainly because of the
db JOINing all those comments, not because there's too much text.) For
whatever reason, a 35K word post feels better.

Not entirely sure about the title or the epigraph.

18 months agomemoir: zinger cap to Christmas 2019 §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Oct 2022 22:44:41 +0000 (15:44 -0700)]
memoir: zinger cap to Christmas 2019 §

18 months agomemoir: Christmas party 2019 (to § end)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:23:34 +0000 (14:23 -0700)]
memoir: Christmas party 2019 (to § end)

I'm going to want to edit/rewrite part of this to better explain some
of the Vassarite inside baseball and tie it off with a zinger, but I
think this is good enough for a first pass?

18 months agomemoir: Christmas party 2019
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Oct 2022 05:18:33 +0000 (22:18 -0700)]
memoir: Christmas party 2019

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agomemoir: can't leave well enough alone (to § end)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Oct 2022 05:55:11 +0000 (22:55 -0700)]
memoir: can't leave well enough alone (to § end)

18 months agomemoir: can't leave well enough alone
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:30:57 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
memoir: can't leave well enough alone

18 months agomemoir: Summer 2019 email re-review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:40:23 +0000 (13:40 -0700)]
memoir: Summer 2019 email re-review

My email review file isn't being that useful if I'm just going to
re-read the emails again while taking notes into the ms. I think these
bullets are detailed enough for me to make another pass turning them
into prose, and continuously filling out this § of the ms. (likely
another day when I have network clearance to review threads that I
don't have saved off into the private notes directory)?

18 months agomemoir tap
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 21 Oct 2022 05:27:39 +0000 (22:27 -0700)]
memoir tap

18 months agomemoir editing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:08:26 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
memoir editing

18 months agothinking about dropping the pseudonym ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:31:10 +0000 (12:31 -0700)]
thinking about dropping the pseudonym ...

The non-secret identity games have already worn thin, and if I'm
telling this story that already ties into a lot of real-world
drama—for example, some of the public interest in my story will come
from how it relates to Jessica's story and the public intrigue around
whether Michael is Good or Bad, which has already been the subject of
a 950+ comment trainwreck—and if I'm actively trying to deal
reputational damage to other people's realnames (viz. Yudkowsky), it's
only fair that I show my own realname while doing it, and if I'm
dropping it for these posts, it makes sense to drop it for the whole
blog ...

For now, I'm just going to supply an "Author:" heading on these
postfiles individually, while I'm still drafting; the full blog
rebrand (and changing .gitconfig) can wait until I'm ready and thought
through all the angles.

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agomemoir: more 2019 event scaffolding
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Oct 2022 01:06:16 +0000 (18:06 -0700)]
memoir: more 2019 event scaffolding

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agomemoir: May 2019 tussle with Anna
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:53:40 +0000 (14:53 -0700)]
memoir: May 2019 tussle with Anna

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agoSatur-day memoir redemption session
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Oct 2022 01:25:50 +0000 (18:25 -0700)]
Satur-day memoir redemption session

18 months agocheck in before redemption
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:35:53 +0000 (08:35 -0700)]
check in before redemption

I somehow lost track of time yesterday?! It was awful! I must not be
complacent today. I am on-mission today!

18 months agomemoir: shovel content from "I Tell" draft; including, footnotes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Oct 2022 20:18:03 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
memoir: shovel content from "I Tell" draft; including, footnotes

Since the function of this megapost is to say everything I need to say
in one place, footnotes seem like a useful vehicle for folding away
some ancillary content such that it doesn't slow down the main
narrative more than it needs to.

18 months agomemoir: compile rationality quotes from other authors
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:21:42 +0000 (11:21 -0700)]
memoir: compile rationality quotes from other authors

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agomemoir: grab reference material from internet before I go offline
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:34:59 +0000 (17:34 -0700)]
memoir: grab reference material from internet before I go offline

We really want to finish telling the Whole Dumb Story this year!! I'm
meeting Seanan briefly, and I've spent a lot of time today being
netsick, but at least just now I've copied down online refs that I
need for the text, so I can pull my network cable out and write
frantically for the next three days.

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agomemoir: TODO outlining in 2019 and to close
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 23:36:58 +0000 (16:36 -0700)]
memoir: TODO outlining in 2019 and to close

Okay, after some more email review, now these TODO blocks feel
sufficiently specific, that just filling them in one by one actually
seems viable as a plan to get a continuous first draft? I think there
are like 37 TODO blocks?

(Then there's edit passes, inserting good content from the sections
file that didn't make it in, finishing "Blanchard's Dangerous Idea",
finishing the reply to Scott on autogenderphilia, finishing the
supplement about pseudonyms, getting feedback from friendly and
hostile prereaders, asking privacy-mongers if it's OK to name them
... think I can do it all in three months??)

18 months agomemoir: threatening to walk
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 22:36:51 +0000 (15:36 -0700)]
memoir: threatening to walk

18 months agomemoir: abortive early memoir attempt, dayjob stuggles
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 18:50:48 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
memoir: abortive early memoir attempt, dayjob stuggles

18 months agocheck in dath ilan griping notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 17:21:03 +0000 (10:21 -0700)]
check in dath ilan griping notes

I really shouldn't waste time in the 'Eliezerfic' Discord server. I
had some notes of some more griping I wanted to do there, but it's
better if I check it in as a draft. If I end up having a few spare
cycles on a weekday to polish it into a post for this blog, I can post
the link in the channel as a bonus (with a "content warning:
anti-Semitism, discussion of sex crimes"), but it's really not what
I'm supposed to be working on right now.

(My hostile commentary on dath ilan is motivated by my resentment of
modern Yudkowsky; it's more efficient and less obfuscated to finish
telling the Whole Dumb Story of why I resent him so much.)

18 months agomemoir: post-defeat, April 2019
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Oct 2022 00:53:38 +0000 (17:53 -0700)]
memoir: post-defeat, April 2019

I hadn't been sure how to explain the schism, and it looks like "just
summarize the emails" is working OK ...

18 months agomemoir: I need a better outline of what happened in Apr.–Nov. 2019
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 23:23:47 +0000 (16:23 -0700)]
memoir: I need a better outline of what happened in Apr.–Nov. 2019

I had a bunch of individual scraps and sentences, but I wasn't sure
how to organize them; I don't know how to explain the factional
schism. Reading through the email review log chronologically and just
trying to tell the Dumb Story chronologically probably can't hurt?

18 months agomemoir: rent-extraction machine
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 19:48:47 +0000 (12:48 -0700)]
memoir: rent-extraction machine

18 months agocheck in / false start?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:33:24 +0000 (10:33 -0700)]
check in / false start?

Starting a serious work day at ten-thirty-something is fine! It's
fine. I'm here.

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agocheck in before a solid three-day sprint!!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 00:12:39 +0000 (17:12 -0700)]
check in before a solid three-day sprint!!

I pulled out my network cable yesterday, but let myself get distracted
with phone and laptop. (I am proud of some zinger commentary I got off
in the Eliezerfic server.)

I have plans to see Father on Sunday evening. I want to get some solid
momentum tonight, and treat tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday-before-17
as serious heads-down workdays. The phone should go off after I watch
teevee tonight (there's a new Lower Decks, and I'm enjoying the
Hansonian black comedy Avenue 5); it's too dangerous.

18 months agomemoir tap
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 3 Oct 2022 00:41:14 +0000 (17:41 -0700)]
memoir tap

18 months agomemoir: defeat, should have known, bot therapy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 22:05:15 +0000 (15:05 -0700)]
memoir: defeat, should have known, bot therapy

18 months agomemoir: Category War initial defeat
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 19:33:20 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
memoir: Category War initial defeat

18 months agomemoir: skeleton prep for Category War initial defeat §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 18:13:19 +0000 (11:13 -0700)]
memoir: skeleton prep for Category War initial defeat §

18 months agomemoir check in
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18 months agomemoir: trans kids on the margin
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Oct 2022 00:33:21 +0000 (17:33 -0700)]
memoir: trans kids on the margin

This is going to need some editing and is definitely subject to prior
constraint. But I think it's much stronger to have this part, rather
than to say "not my story to tell" and move on without a hint.

18 months agomemoir: trans kids in historical context
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Oct 2022 18:57:51 +0000 (11:57 -0700)]
memoir: trans kids in historical context

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agomemoir: building up to my private Document
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Oct 2022 01:21:00 +0000 (18:21 -0700)]
memoir: building up to my private Document

18 months agocheck in, incl. walrus tap and deleting a stale draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:33:03 +0000 (16:33 -0700)]
check in, incl. walrus tap and deleting a stale draft

The "Abridged Guide" draft, based on a January 2019 email, is
superceded by the § in "Hill" built off of the same email.

18 months agogo back to "Beyond the Binary" title
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:26:02 +0000 (16:26 -0700)]
go back to "Beyond the Binary" title

"Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancelable Stereotypes" is just—
a really bad, boring title. This is more fun and memorable.

18 months agomemoir poke (egregore doesn't care about the past, adversarial norms)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:26:26 +0000 (15:26 -0700)]
memoir poke (egregore doesn't care about the past, adversarial norms)

I am not having a great Friday. But it's only half past fifteen;
there's still time to step it into gear! It's not—over.

18 months agomemoir poking and shoveling; incl. "out of patience" email excerpt
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:00:48 +0000 (12:00 -0700)]
memoir poking and shoveling; incl. "out of patience" email excerpt

18 months agocheck in
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18 months agomemoir: poke at April 2019
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:56:34 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
memoir: poke at April 2019

18 months agocheck in
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19 months agopublish "Friendship Practices"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:20:19 +0000 (23:20 -0700)]
publish "Friendship Practices"

19 months agocheck in
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19 months agomemoir: "Gonna Get Over You"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 04:17:06 +0000 (21:17 -0700)]
memoir: "Gonna Get Over You"

19 months agomemoir: MIRIcult, SRS roulette
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:04:11 +0000 (18:04 -0700)]
memoir: MIRIcult, SRS roulette

19 months agomemoir: fill more details—second outreach attempt; meet with Ziz & Gwen
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:02:14 +0000 (17:02 -0700)]
memoir: fill more details—second outreach attempt; meet with Ziz & Gwen

19 months agocheck in
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19 months agomemoir: considering another ridiculous digression about privacy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Sep 2022 05:58:21 +0000 (22:58 -0700)]
memoir: considering another ridiculous digression about privacy

19 months agocheck in
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19 months agomemoir: motive to deal reputational damage; Scott gets a pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Sep 2022 01:06:57 +0000 (18:06 -0700)]
memoir: motive to deal reputational damage; Scott gets a pass

19 months agomemoir: a ridiculous digression about adherence to privacy norms
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:42:32 +0000 (17:42 -0700)]
memoir: a ridiculous digression about adherence to privacy norms

19 months agomemoir: edit pass on beginning of pt. 3
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:24:27 +0000 (13:24 -0700)]
memoir: edit pass on beginning of pt. 3

This may have been suboptimal task ordering (it would be weird if I
ended up getting tired and shoving something out the door in 2023
where the beginning was tightly optimized from me having started an
edit pass "from the top" so many times, but the middle was a rough
mess), but that's not important; sustained engagement with the ms. is
our limiting resource and is approximately always a good thing.

19 months agocheck in
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19 months agoJavaScript conditionals require parens as part of the grammar
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:06:30 +0000 (18:06 -0700)]
JavaScript conditionals require parens as part of the grammar

Maybe correctly remembering JavaScript syntax will help me feel less
gross.

19 months agospecial-case zero for comment count
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:05:16 +0000 (18:05 -0700)]
special-case zero for comment count

Maybe tweaking some JavaScript will help me feel less gross.

19 months agoshove "The Signaling Hazard Objection" out the door
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:00:33 +0000 (18:00 -0700)]
shove "The Signaling Hazard Objection" out the door

What if publishing a post from my buffer makes me feel less gross?

19 months agocheck in while feeling gross
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:52:43 +0000 (17:52 -0700)]
check in while feeling gross

I'm not having a good day today—relaxing and pursuing pleasure isn't
actually fulfilling when it's an excuse for not being brave enough to
write; I had thought of slapping together this auto-auto erotica tools
filler post (there are some Stable Diffusion images to go with it)
with some of my spare free energy (in parallel with memoiring), but
now I'm feeling so disgusted and weak that I don't think I believe in
spare energy—maybe I'll pick it up again in a moment where I don't
feel gross and believe in free energy.

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19 months agomemoir: a battle between Feelings and Truth
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:59:04 +0000 (17:59 -0700)]
memoir: a battle between Feelings and Truth

19 months agomemoir: finish draft § on "tossed in a Bucket" ambiguity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:15:57 +0000 (14:15 -0700)]
memoir: finish draft § on "tossed in a Bucket" ambiguity

19 months agomemoir: gamete size obfuscation
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:31:58 +0000 (15:31 -0700)]
memoir: gamete size obfuscation

19 months agomemoir section reorder shoveling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:47:44 +0000 (11:47 -0700)]
memoir section reorder shoveling

I think my discussion of the bucket metaphor belongs chronologically
while I'm addressing the Feb. 2021 pronouns post, then we can
transition from that to the discussion of bad faith.

19 months agoedits to "filler" (?) posts
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:57:52 +0000 (10:57 -0700)]
edits to "filler" (?) posts

"Friendship Practices" isn't "filler"! What I mean is, this
isn't where my mind should be now.

I think just cutting the "frustrating" topic sentence does a lot
to hide the ball.

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19 months agomemoir: quick note on the optimization lens?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:50:57 +0000 (18:50 -0700)]
memoir: quick note on the optimization lens?!

19 months agomemoir: "Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:36:58 +0000 (18:36 -0700)]
memoir: "Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)"

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19 months agomemoir: novices like me and Michelle Alleva ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:51:26 +0000 (18:51 -0700)]
memoir: novices like me and Michelle Alleva ...

19 months agomemoir: not liking to be tossed into a Student Bucket
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Sep 2022 23:41:29 +0000 (16:41 -0700)]
memoir: not liking to be tossed into a Student Bucket

We should probably try to cut some words in editing, but this is OK
draft material, and I think I'm seeing the transition sentences to
string the parts together.

Perhaps another draft pass should play up the analogy between student
dysphoria and gender dysphoria: I can't expect people to have read the
link.

19 months agomemoir: internet-enabled references, next waypoints
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Sep 2022 18:52:34 +0000 (11:52 -0700)]
memoir: internet-enabled references, next waypoints

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19 months agomemoir: beating on the hair surgery example
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 6 Sep 2022 05:44:34 +0000 (22:44 -0700)]
memoir: beating on the hair surgery example

19 months agomemoir: hair surgery does not propogate backwards in time
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 6 Sep 2022 01:27:59 +0000 (18:27 -0700)]
memoir: hair surgery does not propogate backwards in time

19 months agomemoir: bitter ending?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Sep 2022 20:31:04 +0000 (13:31 -0700)]
memoir: bitter ending?

I probably shouldn't actually end this on such a spiteful note. (I'm
trying to communicate a lot of complicated things, not just "Yudkowsky
Bad".)

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19 months agomemoir: not doubting how the algorithm feels
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Sep 2022 01:26:04 +0000 (18:26 -0700)]
memoir: not doubting how the algorithm feels

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19 months agodraft: "The Signaling Hazard Objection"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Sep 2022 19:56:44 +0000 (12:56 -0700)]
draft: "The Signaling Hazard Objection"