From 464f5dfb95c8a30bc334c58464db5a9f115bc3f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:55:43 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- notes/notes.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index d68b997..9c881cf 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1425,3 +1425,17 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/itsafetish/comments/d54b7x/thank_you_and_goodbye/ "Genuine question: Are there any straight transitioned women out there? Who weren’t previously gay?" https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1204773053986725889 https://twitter.com/LaraAdamsMille1/status/1199132705478381568 + +----- + +If someone wants to rewrite this post because they can do a better job of it (perhaps, as Jim suggests, because the post has objective flaws that are causually related to the author's crimes), that's great. + +If someone wants to re-write the post because we want to use the idea but it would be embarrassing to give the author credit for it, that's just PR-driven plagiarism. And I don't think it would even work. + +Suppose we include "Affordance Widths" in the Best-of-2018 collection as-is. If /r/SneerClub gets word of it, they'll point and sneer and say, "Look, the robot cult blog just canonized a post by a rapist! What terrible people they are!" + +Suppose we get someone to re-write the post because of the reputational risk. If /r/SneerClub gets word of it, they'll point to this discussion and sneer and say, "The robot cult blog rewrote a post because they're worried about reputational risks. But the fact that their rationale was 'reputational risks' suggests that they don't know that rape is wrong. What terrible people they are!" + +And they would kind of have a point? The function of "bad reputation" is to correspond to things that are actually bad. + +----- diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index f82e0a1..ad44770 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ 11 Dec ✓ Political Science Epigrams 12 Dec ✓ The Strategy of Stigmatization 13 Dec ✓ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties" -14 Dec ✓ "A Practical Ambition; Or, I Want to Be the One" +14 Dec ✓ "I Want to Be the One" 16 Dec ✓ Promises I Can Keep 18 Dec ✓ Comp 20 Dec ✓ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous +PR-driven plagiarism + Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism -- 2.17.1