From 49b692bb16b6dfbd748b729cd83f7806a8affa0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 16:22:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- .../a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 6 ++++-- ...he-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md | 8 +++++--- notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md | 11 +++++++++++ notes/critical_acclaim.md | 4 +++- notes/notes.txt | 7 +++++++ 5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 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 70ca076..77db5bb 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 @@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ At this point, I was _disappointed_ with the impact of my work, but not to the p ... and, really, that _should_ have been the end of the story. Not much of a story at all. If I hadn't been further provoked, I would have still kept up this blog, and I still would have ended up arguing about gender with people occasionally, but this personal obsession of mine wouldn't have been the occasion of a full-on robot-cult religious civil war. -The _causis belli_ for the religious civil war happened on 28 November 2018. +The _causis belli_ for the religious civil war happened on 28 November 2018. I was at my new dayjob's company offsite event in Austin. + +I had already spent much of the afternoon + -I was at my new dayjob's company offsite event in Austin. diff --git a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md index f18066a..d6de69f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md +++ b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md @@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ Like many pre-intelligent creatures, both subspecies of Plain Speech Valley squi At this, some novice students of historical mammology inquire: why be secretive? Surely if the squirrels were to pool their knowledge together, and build on each other's successes, they could accumulate ever-greater mastery over their environment, and possibly even spark their world's ascension?! -To which it is replied: evolution wouldn't necessarily select for that for that. Survival opportunities tend to be rivalrous: two squirrels can't both eat the same nut, or hide in the same one-squirrel-width hole. Or as it was put in a joke popular amongst the west-valley ground squirrels (according to Harrod's habilitation thesis on pre-intelligence in the days of auld lang syne): I don't need to outrun the _predator_, I just need to outrun my _conspecifics_. +To which it is replied: evolution wouldn't necessarily select for that. Survival-relevant opportunities are often rivalrous: two squirrels can't both eat the same nut, or hide in the same one-squirrel-width hole. Or as it was put in a joke popular amongst the west-valley ground squirrels (according to Harrod's post-habilitation thesis on pre-intelligence in the days of auld lang syne): I don't need to outrun the _predator_, I just need to outrun my _conspecifics_. Thus, secrecy instincts turned out to be adaptive: a squirrel keeping a valuable secret to itself and its friends would gain more inclusive fitness than a squirrel who shared its knowledge freely with anysquirrel who could listen. + +A few students inquire further: but that's a _contingent_ fact about the distribution of squirrel-survival-relevant opportunities in the Valley of of Plain Speech in days of auld lang syne, right? A different distribution of adaptive problems might induce a less secretive psychology? + +To which it is replied: yes, well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-that-was would be sparked by the _H. sapiens_ line of hominids some millions of years later, rather than by the Plain Speech species 9792 and 9794. -[...] -(well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-that-was would be sparked by the _H. sapiens_ line of hominids some millions of years later, rather than by the Plain Speech species 9792 and 9794.) [TODO: novelty instincts about secrets make cross-species friends more desirable, but species differences also make them frustrating] diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 9aeb30a..d947fe7 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -1040,3 +1040,14 @@ You _can't_ optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without "yeah in public we say 'cis women' but tran to tran we just say 'women,' we‘re not insane lol" no transsexual is like 'from a young age all i ever wanted was to be.. cis' https://twitter.com/theorygurl/status/1062451652836446208 + +Keltham and Carissa's attitude towards Pharima mirrors my attitude towards Yudkowsky (I'm grateful for him having created me, but he can't be allowed to get away with this shit) +https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1834769#reply-1834769 + +sometimes I get a cite, too— +https://putanumonit.com/2022/05/02/genders-discrimination/ +https://axrp.net/episode/2022/05/23/episode-15-natural-abstractions-john-wentworth.html + +People learn a lot from Godel Escher Bach, too, but they don't form an identity around Douglas Hofstadter being the most important person in the world + +and Keltham tells Carissa (null action pg 39) to keep the Light alive as long as possible, not do throw away your deontology too quickly. diff --git a/notes/critical_acclaim.md b/notes/critical_acclaim.md index 73d946a..2ab3424 100644 --- a/notes/critical_acclaim.md +++ b/notes/critical_acclaim.md @@ -136,4 +136,6 @@ Haskell survey repoting got picked up https://twitter.com/BarneyFlames/status/1516637367821639680 > wow, this site is extremely sch1z0 -https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1516642775764115458 \ No newline at end of file +https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1516642775764115458 + +https://axrp.net/episode/2022/05/23/episode-15-natural-abstractions-john-wentworth.html diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 98df905..f2a4db3 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -3175,3 +3175,10 @@ whereas a straight man needs to be (.68-.36 = 0.32) 0.32/0.12=2.67 more feminine In percentile terms, 1-norm.cdf(1) = 0.15 of gay men are as feminine as a woman whereas 1-norm.cdf(2.67) = 0.003 of straight men are that's a likelihood ratio of 50 ... but the prior is not that far from 50:1 in the other direction! They cancel out!!] + +https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/115874/shirley-conran-s-lace-body-slammed-agp-back-in-1982 + +https://pitt.substack.com/p/headline-when-a-quarter-of-the-class + +https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/vlopk0/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_27_2022/ieo2jzm/ +> Obsessive, pedantic, Talmudic talk of edge cases, cluster definitions, Bayesian filters or whatever else grey tribe weirdos might get fascinated with only gets in the way of an honest negotiation of a value handshake between majority groups. Not that I believe it would've taken place in a world with zero rationalists, but it's still annoying. -- 2.17.1