From 90587a79488dde20d5384ab1e865eccb2473dd70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 22:57:27 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- ...e-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 2 +- notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt | 2 -- notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 5 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 3a68ab1..425e5fd 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 @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ I don't think I'm setting [my price for joining](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts I think I've _more than_ met this standard. I _tried_ personally fixing the issue no matter how much effort it took! Also, the issue _does_, in fact, arise from outright bad faith. (We had [an entire Sequence](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/SGB7Y5WERh4skwtnb) about this! You lying motherfuckers!) -That ended up being quite a lot of effort!—but at this point I've _exhausted every possible avenue of appeal_. Arguing [publicly on the object level](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/) didn't work. Arguing [publicly on the meta level](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries) didn't work. There is _nothing left for me to do_ but lick my wounds, wait for my broken heart to heal, and—probably—somehow—try to still be friends with (in some sense of "friends") with people I believe to be in a state of epistemic sin because _I don't have anywhere else to go_. +That ended up being quite a lot of effort!—but at this point I've _exhausted every possible avenue of appeal_. Arguing [publicly on the object level](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/) didn't work. Arguing [publicly on the meta level](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries) didn't work. Arguing privately didn't work. There is _nothing left for me to do_ but lick my wounds, wait for my broken heart to heal, and—probably—somehow—try to still be friends with (in some sense of "friends") with people I believe to be in a state of epistemic sin because _I don't have anywhere else to go_. diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 59c2053..032754c 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -374,8 +374,6 @@ http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/ casuistry -Schelling: "One must seek, in other words, a rationalization by which to deny oneself too great a reward from the opponent's concession, otherwise the concession will not be made."'— this was basically what I was hoping to do with "Where to Draw The Boundaries?"—I was hoping to get a victory on _just_ the philosophy-of-language part - Eliezer's NRx 2013 vs. 2019 takes In the English language as it is spoken today, third-person singular gender pronouns _do_ have truth conditions. If a stranger crossing your path is rude to you, you'll say, "What's _her_ problem?" or "What's _his_ problem?" depending on your perception of their secondary sex characteristics. diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md index da02b14..aa533e0 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md @@ -96,3 +96,7 @@ I'd almost rather we all pretend this narrative was written in a ["nearby" Evere What matters is the _structure_: I'm just a sample from the _distribution_ of what happens when an American upper-middle-class high-Openness high-Neuroticism late-1980s-birth-cohort IQ-130 78%-Ashkenazi obligate-autogynephilic boy falls in with this kind of robot cult in this kind of world. End sidebar. +---- + +Schelling: "One must seek, in other words, a rationalization by which to deny oneself too great a reward from the opponent's concession, otherwise the concession will not be made."'— this was basically what I was hoping to do with "Where to Draw The Boundaries?"—I was hoping to get a victory on _just_ the philosophy-of-language part + -- 2.17.1