From 827e03edccabd14fe11f4ba395f6d4109fa98a67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:07:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- .../drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md | 4 ++-- .../drafts/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point.md | 4 ++-- notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt | 13 ++++++++++++- notes/post_ideas.txt | 3 ++- 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md index ecc2096..1cbe58b 100644 --- a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md +++ b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Status: draft > > —Sara Barellies, ["Gonna Get Over You"](https://genius.com/Sara-bareilles-gonna-get-over-you-lyrics) -I mostly haven't been doing so well for the past nine months or so. I mean, I've always been a high-neuroticism person, but I think this has been a below-average year even by my standards. I've been reluctant to write about it in too much detail for poorly-understood psychological reasons. Maybe it would feel too much like attacking my friends? +I mostly haven't been doing so well for the past ten months or so. I mean, I've always been a high-neuroticism person, but I think this has been a below-average year even by my standards. I've been reluctant to write about it in too much detail for poorly-understood psychological reasons. Maybe it would feel too much like attacking my friends? -But this blog is not about _not_ attacking my friends. This blog is about the truth. For my own sanity, for my own emotional closure, I need to tell the story as best I can. If it's an incredibly boring and petty story about people getting _unreasonably angry_ about philosophy-of-language minutiæ, well, you've been warned. If the story makes me look bad in the reader's eyes (because you think I'm crazy for getting so unreasonably angry about philosophy-of-language minutiæ), then I shall be happy to look bad for _what I actually am_. (If _telling the truth_ about what I've been obsessively preoccupied with lately makes you dislike me, then you probably _should_ dislike me. If you were to approve of me on the basis of _factually inaccurate beliefs_, then the thing of which you approve, wouldn't be _me_.) +But this blog is not about _not_ attacking my friends. This blog is about the truth. For my own sanity, for my own emotional closure, I need to tell the story as best I can. If it's an _incredibly boring and petty_ story about people getting _unreasonably angry_ about philosophy-of-language minutiæ, well, you've been warned. If the story makes me look bad in the reader's eyes (because you think I'm crazy for getting so unreasonably angry about philosophy-of-language minutiæ), then I shall be happy to look bad for _what I actually am_. (If _telling the truth_ about what I've been obsessively preoccupied with lately makes you dislike me, then you probably _should_ dislike me. If you were to approve of me on the basis of _factually inaccurate beliefs_, then the thing of which you approve, wouldn't be _me_.) So, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this insular little intellectual subculture that was founded in the late 'aughts on an ideal of _systematically correct reasoning_. Sure, anyone will _say_ that their beliefs are true, but you can tell most people aren't being very serious about it. _We_ were going to be serious: starting with the shared canon of knowledge of cognitive biases, reflectivity, and Bayesian probability theory bequeathed to us by our founder, _we_ were going to make serious [collective](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XqmjdBKa4ZaXJtNmf/raising-the-sanity-waterline) [intellectual progress](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nu3wa6npK4Ry66vFp/a-sense-that-more-is-possible) in a way that had [never been done before](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/). diff --git a/content/drafts/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point.md b/content/drafts/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point.md index 61243f7..72fc7f1 100644 --- a/content/drafts/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point.md +++ b/content/drafts/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point.md @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ Category: commentary Tags: game theory, sociology Status: draft -Previously on _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_, we've [considered]() at [length]() the ways in which the self-identity criterion for gender ("Women men are people who identify as women") +Previously on _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_, we've [considered]() at [length]() the ways in which the self-identity criterion for gender ("Women (respectively men) are people who identify as women (respectively men)") fails to -https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests \ No newline at end of file +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 1b99e31..879c4c3 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ OUTLINE person paper on purity +"The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud." + Sara Bareilles song @@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ I wouldn't hold anyone to standards I wouldn't myself—for whatever that's wort analogy to school -(["_Perhaps_, replied the cold logic. _If the world were at stake_. Perhaps, echoed the other part of himself, _but that is not what was actually happening_."](http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/the-sword-of-good)) +(["_Perhaps_, replied the cold logic. _If the world were at stake_. _Perhaps_, echoed the other part of himself, _but that is not what was actually happening_."](http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/the-sword-of-good)) @@ -233,3 +235,12 @@ probably the strongest is "These people have ignored their own carefully gathere power is weird: I feel a bit icky when I notice Sophia or Rachel or Tetra changing their description in a way that seemed influenced by me +"audience capture" https://forward.com/opinion/431400/youtuber-pewdiepies-adl-boycott-shows-how-anti-semitism-goes-mainstream/ + + +https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/ +https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/15/my-id-on-defensiveness/ + +_out of cards_ + +As it is written, ["Almost No One Is Evil; Almost Everything Is Broken."](https://blog.jaibot.com/) diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 920bf84..85a025d 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point -Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties" Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning ----- +Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering + Trying to Be Explicit Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental") -- 2.17.1