From b0b7431181814d8e82504993159d233695d7cf50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 12:59:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] organizing immediate TODOs ... --- ...-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 12 ++++++--- ...alidity-sections.md => memoir-sections.md} | 25 ++++++++----------- notes/tech_tasks.txt | 1 + 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) rename notes/{a-hill-of-validity-sections.md => memoir-sections.md} (99%) 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 37cc56e..fb5fab7 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 @@ -1017,11 +1017,17 @@ Given that I spent so many hours on this little research/writing project in earl [TODO: "Autogenderphilia Is Common" https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/10/autogenderphilia-is-common-and-not-especially-related-to-transgender/] + + [TODO: help from Jessica for "Unnatural Categories"] -[TODO: 2 June, I send an email to Cade Metz, who had DMed me on Twitter -https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation/ -] + + +On 1 June 2020, I received a Twitter DM from _New York Times_ reporter Cade Metz, who said he was "exploring a story about the intersection of the rationality community and Silicon Valley". I sent him an email saying that I would be happy to talk, but that I'd actually been pretty disappointed with the community lately: I was worried that the social pressures of trying to _be_ a "community" and protect the group's status (_e.g._, from New York Times reporters who might portray us in an unflattering light??) incentivize people to compromise on the ideals of _systematically correct reasoning_ that made the community valuable in the first place. + +He never got back to me. + +[TODO: three weeks later, Slate Star Codex went down] [TODO: "out of patience" email] diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md similarity index 99% rename from notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md rename to notes/memoir-sections.md index d3a0a7c..1396fe9 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md @@ -1,16 +1,23 @@ -sections— -_ Yes Requires the Possibility of No scuffle +waypoints— +_ Jessica help with "Unnatural Categories" _ wireheading his fiction subreddit +_ discrediting to the community +_ let's recap +_ people-I-usually-respect footnote +_ Yudkowsky is trying to be a religious leader + +medium section now— +_ existential risk interlude; social justice game theory; I could forgive him + +big sections later— _ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip _ September 2020 Category War victory _ Sasha disaster _ the dolphin war - With phone— _ Signal history with Anna and Michael - With internet available— _ "20% of the ones with penises" someone in the comments saying, "It is a woman's body", and Yudkowsky saying "duly corrected" _ "not taking into account considerations" → rephrase to quote "God's dictionary" @@ -69,7 +76,6 @@ _ erasing agency of Michael's friends, construed as a pawn _ mention the fact that Anna had always taken a "What You Can't Say" strategy _ when to use first _vs. last names _ explain why I'm not being charitable in 2018 thread analysis, that at the time, I thought it had to be a mistake -_ January 2019 meeting with Ziz and Gwen _ better summary of Littman _ explain Rob _ edit the child transition section in a way that Kay Brown would be OK with, have a few sentences about Clever Hans before the wrap-up @@ -1552,15 +1558,6 @@ As I was wrapping up the call, I mentioned that the reason it was a bad week was Thanks, Mom. I'm so lucky to have a mother that's _less retarded than the leadership of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute_. ------- - -On 1 June 2020, I received a Twitter DM from _New York Times_ reporter Cade Metz, who said he was "exploring a story about the intersection of the rationality community and Silicon Valley". I sent him an email saying that I would be happy to talk, but that I'd actually been pretty disappointed with the community lately: I was worried that the social pressures of trying to _be_ a "community" and protect the group's status (_e.g._, from New York Times reporters who might portray us in an unflattering light??) incentivize people to compromise on the ideals of _systematically correct reasoning_ that made the community valuable in the first place. - -He never got back to me. - -[TODO: three weeks later, Slate Star Codex went down] - - ------ [TODO: Yudkowsky wireheading his fiction subreddit diff --git a/notes/tech_tasks.txt b/notes/tech_tasks.txt index d425e1e..f43f3c0 100644 --- a/notes/tech_tasks.txt +++ b/notes/tech_tasks.txt @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +make Markdown native footnote CSS match the plugin-based footnotes undo the Slate Starchive links roll my own pingbacks? (I didn't like the Pelican plugin) http://blog.mlindgren.ca/entry/2015/01/17/how-to-manually-send-a-pingback/ worddiff for gitweb?! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1518178/how-do-i-change-the-gitweb-default-diff-format-to-color-words -- 2.17.1