From 4191fec675166d749bfbe01a49c9176a5db92ef2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 09:41:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] "I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 1 I really want to get this done within a month so that I can move on with my life! Suppose I write every day (including fanatically on free days like this) and have a complete draft by 15 December. Then I can offer pre-publication right-of-reply to key persons and publish on 4 January? --- ...end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 2 +- notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt | 11 +++++++++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md index fcf3266..9f48b2e 100644 --- a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ I fear the explanation requires some personal backstory about me. I ... almost d But I shouldn't let that worry control what I write in _this_ post, because _this_ post isn't about making arguments that might convince anyone of anything: I _already_ made my arguments, and it _mostly didn't work_. _This_ post is about telling the story about that, so that I can finish grieving for the systematically-correct-reasoning community that I _thought_ I had, and make peace with the world I _actually_ live in. -So, some backstory about me. Ever since I was thirteen years old— +So, some backstory about me. Ever since I was fourteen years old— (and I _really_ didn't expect to be blogging about this eighteen years later) diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 701c9ae..4215478 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -481,14 +481,18 @@ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/does-age-bring-wisdom/ https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way#comment-W4TAp4LuW3Ev6QWSF -> I am skeptical that either sex can ever really model and predict the other’s deep internal life, short of computer-assisted telepathy. These are different brain designs we’re talking about here. +> I am skeptical that either sex can ever really model and predict the other's deep internal life, short of computer-assisted telepathy. These are different brain designs we're talking about here. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ctpkTaqTKbmm6uRgC/failed-utopia-4-2 https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ctpkTaqTKbmm6uRgC/failed-utopia-4-2/comment/PhiGnX7qKzzgn2aKb https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Py3uGnncqXuEfPtQp/interpersonal-entanglement -"Failed Utopia #4-2" portrays +The short story ["Failed Utopia #4-2"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ctpkTaqTKbmm6uRgC/failed-utopia-4-2) portrays an almost-aligned superintelligence constructing an utopia for humans—except that + +because evolution didn't design women and men to be optimal partners for each other, and the AI is prohibited from editing people's minds, the happiness-maximizing solution ends up + +the AI splits up the human species by sex and gives women and men their own _separate_ utopias, complete with artificially-synthesized [on my reading, it's an important part of the argument that _verthandi_ are a _separate thing_, not just synthesized women] @@ -505,3 +509,6 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions > > Zachary Michael Davis +Arguing with a specific person's published words is important, because otherwise you can strawman + +[Am I the asshole?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/) -- 2.17.1