From 9a7311b8a7670834c05eb41fd42e8d5aea96f22c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:48:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- ...l-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md | 2 +- ...9-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md | 3 +++ ...s-wrong-reply-to-tailcalled-on-causality.md | 7 +++++++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 18 +++++------------- ...sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md | 7 +++---- 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/drafts/you-are-right-and-i-was-wrong-reply-to-tailcalled-on-causality.md diff --git a/content/2021/link-unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md b/content/2021/link-unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md index 509d8cb..b3666a6 100644 --- a/content/2021/link-unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md +++ b/content/2021/link-unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Category: other Tags: categorization, epistemology, linkpost Sorry for the off-topic linkpost, but I want to point to a fascinating [new mathematical philosophy-of-language post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception) on _Less Wrong_ [(alternative viewer)](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception)! You really have to admire thinkers who can devote so much energy to probing the intricacies of such abstract topics without having any kind of pragmatic ulterior motive. -


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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md b/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md index 68bb7a1..f0fea94 100644 --- a/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md +++ b/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ But how does Samuel _know_ this? I agree that an accumulation of factors from ce In the case of people of African descent, I think we _do_ have a specific candidate for a biological difference affecting COVID-19 outcomes. A randomized clinical trial found that +"Autumn COVID-19 surge dates in Europe correlated to latitudes, not to temperature-humidity, pointing to vitamin D as contributing factor" +https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81419-w + https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16549493/ diff --git a/content/drafts/you-are-right-and-i-was-wrong-reply-to-tailcalled-on-causality.md b/content/drafts/you-are-right-and-i-was-wrong-reply-to-tailcalled-on-causality.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..487e39c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/you-are-right-and-i-was-wrong-reply-to-tailcalled-on-causality.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Title: You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality +Date: 2021-02-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: causality, Tailcalled +Status: draft + +https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/causality-is-essential-reply-to-mtsw-on-autogynephilia/ diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 73c8227..94c2614 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,16 +1,8 @@ -Agenda to 10 January— -(10 January) Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW) - - get feedback from A.D.+ReductiveSoteriology,TurnTrout -_ link as Review on "Where to Draw the Boundaries?" -- Containment thread: reply to Villiam and Pattern - - ------ - - Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to -_ "epilogue, thank you, theory of C., goodbye, &c." email to S.A. - +_ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality + - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open + LW— - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference _ importance of getting the direction of causality right @@ -21,7 +13,7 @@ _ Twitter/Facebook _ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub _ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives" -_ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality + _ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior _ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture @@ -55,7 +47,7 @@ _ reply to https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical-injustic _ four clusters _ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/ - Amy Wax linkpost - - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open + optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex, even if your conscious verbal narrative never says 'and now I will confuse and intimidate people who want to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex'!" diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index eb9d827..a6c2999 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ _(content warning transphobia)_ _(content warning too much information about weird fetishes)_ _(content warning WTF did I just read)_ -(December 2020, [TODO] words) - - -(You can also think of this as psychological context-setting for my philosophy-of-language Sequence's forthcoming two-post conclusion, "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception" and "Motivation and Political Context for my Philosophy-of-Language Agenda") +(February 2021, [TODO] words) ---- @@ -81,6 +78,8 @@ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2015.1351 > I'm just a spirit > Floting in air, floating in air, floating in air!_ +the [Sara Bareilles tune I chose as the breakup song](https://genius.com/Sara-bareilles-gonna-get-over-you-lyrics) is probably etched deeper into my auditory cortex than my mother's voice + ----- Outline for remaining Coda— -- 2.17.1