From 437c2748930f960575b947a7f0b30ac3c6b3e96d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Zack M. Davis" Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 09:34:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] pull the trigger on memoir pt. 3 --- .../if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) rename content/{drafts => 2023}/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md (99%) diff --git a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md b/content/2023/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md similarity index 99% rename from content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md rename to content/2023/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md index b1aacac..1ff081c 100644 --- a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md +++ b/content/2023/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ Title: If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them Author: Zack M. Davis -Date: 2023-12-16 11:00 +Date: 2023-12-30 09:35 Category: commentary -Tags: bullet-biting, cathartic, categorization, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, two-type taxonomy, whale metaphors -Status: draft +Tags: bullet-biting, cathartic, categorization, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences > "—but if one hundred thousand [normies] can turn up, to show their support for the [rationalist] community, why can't you?" > @@ -167,7 +166,7 @@ I got into a scuffle with Ruby Bloom on his post on ["Causal Reality _vs_. Socia [^collaborative-truth-seeking]: [No one ever seems to be able to explain to me what this phrase means.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uvqd3YiBcrPxXzxQM/what-does-the-word-collaborative-mean-in-the-phrase) -(My previous interaction with Ruby had been my challenge to "... Not Man for the Categories" appearing on the _Less Wrong_ FAQ. Maybe he couldn't let me win again so quickly?) +(My previous interaction with Ruby had been my challenge to "... Not Man for the Categories" appearing on the _Less Wrong_ FAQ. Maybe he couldn't let me "win" again so quickly?) I emailed the posse about the thread, on the grounds that gauging the psychology of the mod team was relevant to our upcoming [Voice _vs._ Exit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty) choices. Meanwhile on _Less Wrong_, Ruby kept doubling down: @@ -465,7 +464,7 @@ This seemed correlated with the recurring stalemated disagreement within our pos ### Interactions With a Different Rationalist Splinter Group (November–December 2019) -On 12 and 13 November 2019, Ziz [published](https://archive.ph/GQOeg) [several](https://archive.ph/6HsvS) [blog](https://archive.ph/jChxP) [posts](https://archive.ph/TPei9) laying out [her](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/) grievances against MIRI and CfAR. On the fifteenth, Ziz and three collaborators staged a protest at the CfAR reunion being held at a retreat center in the North Bay near Camp Meeker. A call to the police falsely alleged that the protesters had a gun, [resulting in a](http://web.archive.org/web/20230316210946/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/deputies-working-to-identify-suspects-in-camp-meeker-incident/) [dramatic police reaction](http://web.archive.org/web/20201112041007/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/authorities-id-four-arrested-in-westminster-woods-protest/) (SWAT team called, highway closure, children's group a mile away being evacuated—the works). +On 12 and 13 November 2019, Ziz [published](https://archive.ph/GQOeg) [several](https://archive.ph/6HsvS) [blog](https://archive.ph/jChxP) [posts](https://archive.ph/TPei9) laying out her grievances against MIRI and CfAR. On the fifteenth, Ziz and three collaborators staged a protest at the CfAR reunion being held at a retreat center in the North Bay near Camp Meeker. A call to the police falsely alleged that the protesters had a gun, [resulting in a](http://web.archive.org/web/20230316210946/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/deputies-working-to-identify-suspects-in-camp-meeker-incident/) [dramatic police reaction](http://web.archive.org/web/20201112041007/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/authorities-id-four-arrested-in-westminster-woods-protest/) (SWAT team called, highway closure, children's group a mile away being evacuated—the works). I was tempted to email links to Ziz's blog posts to the Santa Rosa _Press-Democrat_ reporter covering the incident (as part of my information-sharing-is-good virtue ethics), but decided to refrain because I predicted that Anna would prefer I didn't. -- 2.17.1