From b44ceab2eb67213b1739a47378ae2842d7d88c74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 07:01:45 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] "I Tell" check in --- notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt | 4 ++++ notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index c6bc99d..29bd690 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -495,3 +495,7 @@ like [not being an astronaut](http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Feb/if-other- three worlds collide no such thing as love I would have hoped you'd be proud of me, as your (mass correspondence-course) student + + People who spend their entire lives on the receiving end of the calm voice of [authority-backed-by-implied-violence](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/29/reflections-from-the-halfway-point/) might be justified in thinking that Slate Star mistake-theoretic ideals like "reason" and "debate" are for suckers: that's what their distribution of training data actually looks like! + +https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/dy7gkv/what_happened_to_me_and_why_i_think_women_need/ diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md index e7aecc0..c1759e7 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ +As an illustration of how the hope for radical human enhancement is [fraught with technical difficulties](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQkELCGiGQwvrrp3L/growing-up-is-hard), ["Changing Emotions"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions) sketches a picture of just how difficult an actual male-to-female sex change would be. -["Changing Emotions"] +It would be hard to overstate how much of an impact that post had on me. http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2004-September/008924.html [it's hard to overstate the impact this one post had on me (I've already linked it 8 times on this blog)] -- 2.17.1