From fa7c28ca1c497563a215fd28da5ba91c12ede11e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:31:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 2 +- notes/memoir-sections.md | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 cee83f5..988106c 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 @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ It was also around this time that our posse picked up a new member, who would pr ----- -On 5 January, I met with Michael and his associate Aurora Quinn-Elmore in San Francisco to attempt mediated discourse with [Ziz](https://sinceriously.fyi/) and [Gwen](https://everythingtosaveit.how/), who were considering suing CfAR for discriminating against trans women. Michael hoped to dissuade them from a lawsuit—not because Michael approved of CfAR's behavior, but because involving lawyers makes everything worse. +On 5 January, I met with Michael and his associate Aurora Quinn-Elmore in San Francisco to attempt mediated discourse with [Ziz](https://sinceriously.fyi/) and [Gwen](https://everythingtosaveit.how/), who were considering suing CfAR for discriminating against trans women. Michael hoped to dissuade them from a lawsuit—not because Michael approved of CfAR's behavior, but because lawyers make everything worse. Ziz recounted [her](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/) story [of Anna's discrimination](https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative), how she engaged in [conceptual warfare](https://sinceriously.fyi/intersex-brains-and-conceptual-warfare/) to falsely portray Ziz as a predatory male. I was unimpressed: in my worldview, I didn't think Ziz had the right to say "I'm not a man," and expect people to just believe that. ([I remember that](https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1081952880649596928) at one point, Ziz answered a question with, "Because I don't run off masochistic self-doubt like you." I replied, "That's fair.") But I did respect how Ziz actually believed in an intersex brain theory: in Ziz and Gwen's worldview, people's genders were a _fact_ of the matter, not just a manipulation of consensus categories to make people happy. diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md index 86af8a3..3ee59db 100644 --- a/notes/memoir-sections.md +++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ _ lead-in to Sept. 2021 Twitter altercation [pt. 5] _ regrets, wasted time, conclusion [pt. 5] - "Agreeing with Stalin" recap intro [pt. 5] + not even blocked— _ Re: on legitimacy and the entrepreneur; or, continuing the attempt to spread my sociopathic awakening onto Scott [pt. 2 somewhere] _ running away to Burlingame; Hamilton tickets @@ -50,12 +51,18 @@ New (bad) time estimate: = 29.5 workdays × 7 sidereal days / 6 workdays = 34.4 sidereal days = gapless draft on 17 February?? +Less delusionally optimistic time estimate— +32 TODO block × 1/workday = 32 days +7 bigger blocks × workday/4 = 28 days += 60 workdays × 7 sidereal days / 5 workdays = 84 sidereal days += gapless draft on 18 April??? it was actually "wander onto the AGI mailing list wanting to build a really big semantic net" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9HGR5qatMGoz4GhKj/above-average-ai-scientists) With internet available— +_ Ione "good things don't cancel out bad things" _ escort photo comment _ love to know some positive integer number of plans _ "not hard to find": link to more /r/itsafetish-like anecdotes -- 2.17.1