From c0c4cbe2a66947f05353c6d41115fa6fc0ea9c4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 14:41:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- ...sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md | 8 ++-- notes/epigraph_quotes.md | 8 ++++ notes/notes.txt | 45 +++++++++++++++++-- notes/post_ideas.txt | 8 ++-- 4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md b/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md index 4b0b298..7e4a101 100644 --- a/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md +++ b/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Category: commentary Tags: cathartic, epistemic horror Status: draft -> "The only thing standing in the way of my own progress," Sagreda said, "is that the forces that once dealt with us honestly have been buried too deep to reach. All I can touch now is the surface, which is shaped by nothing but whim." +> The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." > -> —["Bit Players"](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan) by Greg Egan +> —["Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush"](https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html) by Ron Suskind, _The New York Times Magazine_ Truth isn't real; there are only competing narratives. @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ If people are quantitatively less likely to do business with people who emit her If you can't win the argument (because the motte is genuinely a great motte) and therefore gain status by appealing to reality, and our minds are better at tracking status than reality, then eventually dissidents either accept the narrative or destroy themselves. (It's tempting to do the equivalent of flipping a table and screaming, "STOP GASLIGHTING ME, YOU SANCTIMONIOUS LYING BASTARDS", but that's not a winning move: depending on the details, you either get ostracized on grounds of being an asshole, or carted off to psychiatric prison on grounds of being mentally ill.) -If autogynephilic males (who are better at coalitional politics than actual-lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general, as evidenced by the patriarchy) manages to +If autogynephilic males (who are better at coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general, as evidenced by the patriarchy) manages to ----- @@ -40,3 +40,5 @@ if you can mf everyone into beleiving that AGPs are really women, that actually but maybe you could get the good result without mfing??? https://twitter.com/pangmeli/status/1079097805250224130 + +Judiciously. As I do. diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index ee258e7..c684bf2 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -266,3 +266,11 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/ > Though I am not unkind" > > —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants + +> "The only thing standing in the way of my own progress," Sagreda said, "is that the forces that once dealt with us honestly have been buried too deep to reach. All I can touch now is the surface, which is shaped by nothing but whim." +> +> —["Bit Players"](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan) by Greg Egan + +> Every asshole these days has a blog. Every asshole with a blog wants to “change the world.” But the great thing about being right is that, when the world catches on, you really can’t tell whether or not they heard it from you. The truth, being true, belongs to all. +> +> — https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/11/ur-heard-it-here-first-files/ diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 9472cf9..8592827 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -615,6 +615,8 @@ Blanchard on the record about "homosexual" terminology: https://twitter.com/Blan no one remembers pronouns: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1060563648027021314 +material reality: https://twitter.com/jennyrossity/status/1084449984399970305 + https://twitter.com/RachelRMoran/status/1060311474780946432 http://abc30.com/homeless-women-harassed-in-shower-lawsuit-says/3514544/ @@ -1016,8 +1018,6 @@ so while you're being successfully marginalized by the currently-reigning egrego but if you start gaining power in spaces that I care about, I kind of have to fight you to the death for her - - W: 'Roles require that people support a consistent interface and contracts (in the programming sense). "Identities", "spectrums", "questioning", "finding oneself", and individualism in general break down the contracts and interfaces that others used to be able to rely on. The result is atomization, alienation between genders, and below replacement fertility. It's like a class in a dynamically typed language, where you have no idea what the methods or returned types are.' unless you have lots of fine-grained roles, "make sure the fence-sitters take the typical route" is really bad for me (screws over everyone who doesn't like the standard role, but isn't weird enough to qualify for a nonstandard one, and statistically, there are a lot more sort-of weird people than really-really weird people) @@ -1038,10 +1038,8 @@ I'm saying that the thing that the Zeitgeist is encouraging people to interpret misinterpretation of misdirected male sexuality - I agree that a lot of people seem perform the verbal behavior of saying, "A woman is anyone who wants to be!" But like, you know, maybe they're lying! - Human psychology is a very high-dimensional configuration space! If you've bought into an ideology that says that everyone is equal and that therefore psychological sex differences must be small-to-nonexistent, then you can choose to selectively ignore the dimensions along which sex differences are relatively large, and when you're locked into that worldview, it does indeed genuinely look to you like individual personality differences swamp sex differences! And when you're locked into that worldview, looking at the dimensions along which the differences are relatively large is genuinely painful! Once you notice this, maybe you can think of clever strategies to better serve the moral ideal that makes psychological-sex-differences denialism so appealing, while making use of the additional power you gain by letting yourself look at the whole configuration space! https://arcdigital.media/what-is-gender-identity-10ce0da71999 @@ -1052,3 +1050,42 @@ One way of describing the trigger for me having gone bezerk starting in February the oscillation between "I'm embarrassed and upset about {thing} that I don't want to acknowledge or explain, but that makes me not want to acknowledge or explain the fact that I feel embarrassed an upset" vs. "Yes, {thing} is real; real things are allowed to appear on maps" +Goodhart's Lawyer (credit "Wilhelm") + +the ugly gray communist 90% crap superstimuli aren't a threat to the values of our ancestors, but the really well done ones, are +I am the threat +(the cartoons with female superheroines that make the AGP male heart melt ... but who are noticeably not drawn from the same distribution as ACTUAL WOMEN) + +Taking a sabbatical; I'll try to think of it as being a housewife supported by my past self of the past three years + +Siezing the Means of Home Production: http://archive.li/9NRrS + +!!Con speakers: I count 1 "they/them" woman, 9 probably-actual-women, 3 known/obvious MtF, and 3 "they/them" men (implied 16 normal men remaining (including me?!)) + +https://abc30.com/homeless-women-harassed-in-shower-lawsuit-says/3514544/ + +If you ever find yourself saying, "Even if Hypothesis H is true, it doesn't have any decision-relevant implications," YOU ARE RATIONALIZING! The fact that H is interesting enough for you to be considering the question at all (it's not some arbitrary trivium like the 1923th binary digit of π, or the low temperature in São Paulo on September 17, 1978) means that it must have some relevance to the things you care about. It is VANISHINGLY IMPROBABLE that your optimal decisions are going to be the SAME in worlds where H is true and worlds where H is false. The fact that you're tempted to SAY they're the same is probably because some part of you is afraid of some of the imagined consequences of H being true. But H is already true or already false! If you happen to live in a world where H is true, and you make decisions as if you lived in a world where H is false, you are thereby missing out on all the extra utility you would get if you made the H-optimal decisions instead! + +If you can figure out exactly what you're afraid of, maybe that will help you work out what the H-optimal decisions are. Then you'll be a better position to successfully notice which world you ACTUALLY live in. http://lesswrong.com/lw/o4/leave_a_line_of_retreat/ + + +"Jesse Singal is a transphobic piece of shit!" + +Separately, may also be worth considering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification … when deciding what merits "piece of shit" status? Who knows if some of the ppl you follow are (e.g.) autogynephilia truthers, but don't write about it under their real name because they see the reaction to Singal? + +"That's a suspiciously specific hypothetical." + + +There were a couple of young black women ahead of me at the convenience store who I found physically attractive; I'm given to understand that there's a whole PUA literature about "day game" where you talk to random women, and whether you could have an intellectual conversation with them (across that kind of culture and IQ gap) is besides the point?? It's just so unthinkable to me +I'm not claiming that my upbringing got the right answer +Rather, that I'm actually incapable of thinking of other answers independent of rightness +such that I'll never, ever get to hit that +I can barely speak of this to anyone but you (I mean, I could, but I do have you as my designated-evil friend) +one of them was wearing spandex pants +never get to hit that or be that + +Every year, the people who are isomorphic in opinions to you become more masculine (because of everyone moving left), which means they are going to have more inferential distance on gender dysphoria. + +Contra affirms self-ID: https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1086351168123621376 + +divorce court required pronouns: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/9zgivf/peak_trans_viii_tell_your_story_here/eea6imc/ diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index da4de3d..ccf0d23 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ -26 Dec | The Dialectic +_ | The Dialectic _ | The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned -asymmetrical trolls +_ | One-Way Trolls _ | Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture -_ | Trying to Be Explicit (deadline 2 Jan 2019) +_ | Trying to Be Explicit _ | I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But +"But It Doesn't Matter" +Social Strategy Notes, February 2019 the thing to deny -- 2.17.1