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17 months agocheck in
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I think I want to cuss sparingly.

17 months agomemoir: the beginning of the Dolphin War
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Nov 2022 06:08:41 +0000 (22:08 -0800)]
memoir: the beginning of the Dolphin War

17 months agomemoir: great battle footnote replies
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Nov 2022 19:10:20 +0000 (11:10 -0800)]
memoir: great battle footnote replies

Want to point out the hypocrisy but don't want to distract from the
"battle that matters" speech.

17 months agoNovember 5 is problematic but November is still serious
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Nov 2022 03:01:32 +0000 (20:01 -0700)]
November 5 is problematic but November is still serious

A friend of the blog points out that an earlier commit message was
lying about the cable being out all weekend. That's ... not good.

But it's also not a total collapse of my planning credibility. We've
seen me finish long pieces before. An 86K word piece is mostly just
seven 12K word pieces stapled together, with some additional
oversight. It's objectively reasonable to expect me to find some new
Ainslie–Schelling points and make November serious!

17 months agocheck in
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17 months agomemoir bulleting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 5 Nov 2022 21:07:10 +0000 (14:07 -0700)]
memoir bulleting

17 months agopoke and bullet?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 5 Nov 2022 05:38:26 +0000 (22:38 -0700)]
poke and bullet?

17 months agomemoir poke and fold
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 5 Nov 2022 04:16:34 +0000 (21:16 -0700)]
memoir poke and fold

After some progress from 11–1530, I degenerated into continuing my
re-read of Second Foundation. (It'd been years!) Is today over? No—an
experiment in bribes: I told myself I could check the net on my laptop
and watch a show from 2300 to midnight if I squeeze in four (amend
that, I actually wrote "3" in my planner?)  blocks before 2300. I'm
sure it's that easy: as long as my butt is in the desk chair and I'm
engaged with the ms. in some form, then I'm moving forward, and any
form of violence, deceit, or corruption that increases chair time is
in the service of the God–Empress.

17 months agoa thought about privacy while I was out on my walk
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Nov 2022 23:56:29 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
a thought about privacy while I was out on my walk

17 months agomemoir progress projection
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Nov 2022 23:23:21 +0000 (16:23 -0700)]
memoir progress projection

17 months agomemoir: "discrediting to the community" sub-§
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Nov 2022 23:22:14 +0000 (16:22 -0700)]
memoir: "discrediting to the community" sub-§

17 months agomemoir: pt. 4 opportunistic edit passing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Nov 2022 23:21:36 +0000 (16:21 -0700)]
memoir: pt. 4 opportunistic edit passing

17 months agoNovember 3 specifically wasn't serious but November is serious
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Nov 2022 06:37:32 +0000 (23:37 -0700)]
November 3 specifically wasn't serious but November is serious

I think I was hoping to do more in the evening, but I got called away
to a Friendship Problem (even though I was re-watching Pantheon ep. 7
when I got called)? The moral is that yet again, I thought I was sane
enough to function with internet today, and yet again, I was not. The
cable comes out for at least the next two days, and likely until
evening Sunday.

17 months agocheck in (November is serious)
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17 months agotap at multi-product review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Nov 2022 05:59:46 +0000 (22:59 -0700)]
tap at multi-product review

On this first day of a new month, it seemed important that I get some
blog work done in the evening and not just hedonism, even though I
already did dayjob work today. I need to make progress every day this
month to see how far I can get on that memoir! (But tapping at this
should-be-quick post instead of the memoir today is fine; I want to
finish this Thursday as a prerequisite for my report on this month's
Fan Expo (because where else would I try out my new mask?), and then
the rest of the month is memoir.

17 months agocheck in
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17 months agomemoir: reducing negativity (to § end)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 31 Oct 2022 02:04:12 +0000 (19:04 -0700)]
memoir: reducing negativity (to § end)

I was having trouble getting started today, but I think I finally got
some flow and did some real thinking?!

17 months agomemoir: bullet and shovel
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:39:05 +0000 (14:39 -0700)]
memoir: bullet and shovel

17 months agomemoir: bullet outline remainder of reducing-negativity §
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:54:08 +0000 (12:54 -0700)]
memoir: bullet outline remainder of reducing-negativity §

Having trouble getting started? Nothing wrong with incremental
progress and tiny commits. The chain-of-thought prompting approach: if
you a large enough amount of computation turning vague notes into
less-vague bullet-outlines and less-vague bullet outlines into
paragraphs, you can eventually diffuse a completed ms. My limiting
factor is really the "large enough amount of computation", which is
rectified by keeping my butt in this chair and keeping the timer
running.

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
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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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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?

18 months agocheck in
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18 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

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

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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

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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

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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
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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

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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.

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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 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 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.

19 months agocheck in
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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