From fb0e14f8238d5a6d219b728698b33e0e17010330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:08:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- ...e-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 3 ++- notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md index 75f92d3..f388d3e 100644 --- a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md @@ -96,10 +96,11 @@ This is _basic shit_. As we say locally, this is _basic Sequences shit_. [...] +A friend tells me that the ori + we did not realize that _whether I should cut my dick off_ would become a politicized issue. To be fair, it's not obvious that I _shouldn't_ cut my dick off! A lot of people seem to be doing it nowadays, and a lot of them seem to be pretty happy with their decision! But in order to _decide_ whether it's a good idea, I need _accurate information_. I need an _honest_ accounting of the costs and benefits of transition, so that I can cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's a good idea, and not cut my dick off in the possible worlds where that's not a good idea. actively manufacture _fake rationality lessons_ that have been optimized to confuse me into cutting my dick off _independently_ of whether or not we live in a world - diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 4e28908..64fcf7b 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +Actually—maybe I _do_ want to keep this narrowly scoped to the Category War, where I have a very strong case, rather than telling my whole gender/rationalism story! + OUTLINE * I haven't been doing so well, and I need to tell the story for my own sanity * I spent my entire adult life in "rationality", and I actually believed @@ -364,3 +366,5 @@ posting on LW because it's the conversational locus https://www.lesswrong.com/po M.L. Morris "Vocational Interests in the United States" d=1.7 on occupational preferences playing for scraps vs. playing for keeps https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1151902363059392512 + +You can't optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without also optimizing against understanding Occam's razor; you can't optimize for not questioning gender self-identity without also optimizing against understanding "A Human's Guide to Words." -- 2.17.1