From d2b76fc9165e2226bc108ff05b6c17fde7c239ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 19:48:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- .../a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 3 +++ content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md | 12 +++++++++++- content/drafts/i-dont-do-policy.md | 7 +++++++ notes/notes.txt | 3 +++ notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md | 4 ---- 5 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/drafts/i-dont-do-policy.md 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 6aa9a3c..1e426fc 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 @@ -269,3 +269,6 @@ But in the _process_ of trying to _talk about_ this late-onset-gender-dysphoria- what the math actually means in the real world from "Reply to Holden" I guess I feel pretty naïve now, but—I _actually believed our own propoganda_. I _actually thought_ we were doing something new and special of historical and possibly even _cosmological_ significance. + + +I got a pingback to "Optimized Propaganda" from in an "EDIT 5/21/2021" on https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qKvn7rxP2mzJbKfcA/persuasion-tools-ai-takeover-without-agi-or-agency after Scott Alexander linked it—evidence for Scott having Power to shape people's attention diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md index d97c566..6f56c6c 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: draft Well, this is awkward. -I liked [reviewing the _last_ Charles Murray book](http://unremediatedgender.space/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/). +I liked [reviewing the _last_ Charles Murray book](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/). You've got to feel sorry for Charles Murray. @@ -33,3 +33,13 @@ https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2019/01/what-you-cant-say-genetic-group-difference- [the Georgetown law professor thing: "I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks."—this is actually a very straightforward consequence of affirmative action (even if you don't believe in a genetic gap); it should be possible to reason about https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/03/12/georgetown-terminates-law-professor-reprehensible-comments-about-black-students ] + + +Paul Christiano abstract story about what kind of agents steer the future +https://rationalaltruist.com/2013/02/27/why-will-they-be-happy/ + +https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-america-is-flunking-math-education + +https://www.unz.com/isteve/nature-tackling-systemic-racism-requires-the-system-of-science-to-change/ + +https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-not-so-great-reset-rolls-on/ diff --git a/content/drafts/i-dont-do-policy.md b/content/drafts/i-dont-do-policy.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9499e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/i-dont-do-policy.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Title: I Don't Do Policy +Date: 2021-06-01 05:00 +Category: commentary +Tags: politics +Status: draft + +Almost everything I do is at least one meta level up from any actual decisions. I'm _not_ trying to tell other people how to live their lives, because _that would be crazy_. I am obviously _not smart enough_ to tell other people what they should do _and get the right answer_. True, I am skeptical of currently-popular _theories_ of how gender works and how gender dysphoria works, because I think they are _false_ in certain knowable aspects and that I have a more accurate view in certain knowable aspects. That is _not the same thing_ as telling people to detransition! Maybe lots _more_ people should transition! But in order to _figure out_ what the correct decisions are—or what the best decisions are conditional on your axiomatic subjective values—we need to _get the theory right_. diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 1eb001f..d24591b 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -2674,3 +2674,6 @@ https://www.healthline.com/health/how-are-transgenders-born > For example, those who don't want to pass might: [...] > not identify with the norms present in cis culture > have a sense of gender that can’t be affirmed using reference points grounded in the cis experience + +https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/31752/why-do-trans-people-like-doing-things-that-are-feminine-but-even-females-don-t-l +> only straight men talk about women's bodies like this. diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 04c5ebc..3214938 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -212,10 +212,6 @@ cosplay— even after taking into account that the phrase "once you know what to look for" is a 20-meter fire-truck-red flag for [confirmation bias](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rmAbiEKQDpDnZzcRf/positive-bias-look-into-the-dark). - - -**Almost everything I do is at least one meta level up from any actual decisions.** I'm _not_ trying to tell other people how to live their lives, because _that would be crazy_. I am obviously _not smart enough_ to tell other people what they should do _and get the right answer_. True, I am skeptical of currently-popular _theories_ of how gender works and how gender dysphoria works,[^concepts] because I think they are _false_ in certain knowable aspects and that I have a more accurate view in certain knowable aspects. That is _not the same thing_ as telling people to detransition! Maybe lots _more_ people should transition! But in order to _figure out_ what the correct decisions are—or what the best decisions are conditional on your axiomatic subjective values—we need to **get the theory right**. - Why not just say "cis" women? I do, often, depending on the audience and the context of what I'm trying to say. I can [code-switch](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/code-switching-i/); I can entertain multiple frames—different maps that reflect different aspects of the same territory. I can even be polite, when being polite is _cheap_. But it's important to at least _acknowledge_ that "cis" and "actual" do not _convey the same meaning_. (Sufficiently advanced neuroscience would be able to confirm this by examining patterns of brain activity on hearing each word.) The _fact_ that they don't convey the same meaning is _why_ the latter is offensive—the source of controversy isn't that people love words that start with _c_ and hate words that that start with a vowel sound. Not being allowed to use the word "actual" in this context makes it harder to encode the _empirical hypothesis_ I'm trying to communicate, that "trans" isn't just pointing to a subcluster within the "woman" cluster (like "young woman" or "Japanese woman"), it's actually denoting a subcluster within the _male_ cluster in the subspace of dimensions corresponding to [developmental sex](http://unremediatedgender.space/2019/Sep/terminology-proposal-developmental-sex/)-related traits that—unfortunately, heartbreakingly—we don't know how to change with current technology. The fact that I can't _talk about the world I see_ in the simple language that comes naturally to me without it inevitably being construed as a reactionary political statement is a _problem_. And it's a _rationality_ problem insofar as the world I see is potentially a more accurate model of the real world, than the world I'm allowed to talk about in Berkeley 2020. -- 2.17.1