From 07d8ff4fa67c989e785cea8eed9b60264dd1cba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:43:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- .../a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 15 ++++++++++++--- notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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 e715d63..1f23add 100644 --- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md @@ -54,13 +54,22 @@ The _causis belli_ for the religious civil war happened on 28 November 2018. I w I had recently joined Twitter under my real name, inspired in an odd way by the suffocating wokeness of the open-source software scene where I [occasionally contributed diagnostics patches to the compiler](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits?author=zackmdavis). My plan was to avoid gender issues on that account, at least to start—with the option of going "mask off" and self-canceling in a blaze of glory later. -So there I was, browsing Twitter in the bedroom at the rental house for the dayjob event, when I happened to stumble across this thread by @ESYudkowsky: +So there I was, browsing Twitter in the bedroom at the rental house for the dayjob event, when I happened to stumble across [this thread by @ESYudkowsky](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1067183500216811521): -> [TODO: linky/excerpt hill of meaning thread] +> Some people I usually respect] for their willingness to publicly die on a hill of facts, now seem to be talking as if pronouns are facts, or as if who uses what bathroom is necessarily a factual statement about chromosomes. Come on, you know the distinction better than that! +> +> *Even if* somebody went around saying, "I demand you call me 'she' and furthermore I claim to have two X chromosomes!", which none of my trans colleagues have ever said to me by the way, it still isn't a question-of-empirical-fact whether she should be called "she". It's an act. +> +> In saying this, I am not taking a stand for or against any Twitter policies. I am making a stand on a hill of meaning in defense of validity, about the distinction between what is and isn't a stand on a hill of facts in defense of truth. +> +> I will never stand against those who stand against lies. But changing your name, asking people to address you by a different pronoun, and getting sex reassignment surgery, Is. Not. Lying. You are *ontologically* confused if you think those acts are false assertions. Some of the replies tried explain them problem—and Yudkowsky stonewalled them: -> [TODO: linky "You're not standing in defense of truth"] +> You're mistaken about what the word means to you, I demonstrate thus: +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome +> +> But even ignoring that, you're not standing in defense of truth if you insist on a word, brought explicitly into question, being used with some particular meaning. Dear reader, this is the moment where I _flipped the fuck out_. diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 26cff4f..12becc2 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -1005,3 +1005,8 @@ and Keltham tells Carissa (null action pg 39) to keep the Light alive as long as > It, it—the fe—it, flame—flames. Flames—on the side of my face. Breathing—breathl—heaving breaths, heaving— like a crazy ex-girlfriend (I have no underlying issues to address; I'm certifiably cute, and adorably obsessed) + +But he is willing to go to bat for killing babies, but not for "Biological Sex is Actually Real Even If That Hurts Your Feelings" https://mobile.twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1547562974927134732 + +https://extropians.weidai.com/extropians.3Q97/4361.html +> Half the time I regard myself as "an AI wannabee trapped in a male human body" -- 2.17.1