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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 3d27a9c..7f3d746 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
+++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
@@ -372,9 +372,17 @@ As it happened, the next day, Wednesday, we saw these Tweets from @ESYudkowsky:
 
 The most obvious reading of this is as a "concession" to my agenda. The two-type taxonomy of MtF was the thing I was _originally_ trying to talk about, back in 2016–2017, before getting derailed onto the present philosophy-of-language war, and here Yudkowsky was backing up "my side" on that by publicly offering an argument that there's probably a more-than-one-type typology.
 
-At this point, some people might think that should have been the end of the matter, that I should have been satisfied. I had started the recent drama flare-up because Yudkowsky had Tweeted something unfavorable to my agenda. Now, Yudkowsky was Tweeting something favorable to my agenda—a major concession! Wouldn't it be _greedy_ and _ungrateful_ for me to keep criticizing him about the pronouns and language thing, given that he'd thrown me a bone here?
+At this point, some people might think that should have been the end of the matter, that I should have been satisfied. I had started the recent drama flare-up because Yudkowsky had Tweeted something unfavorable to my agenda. Now, Yudkowsky was Tweeting something favorable to my agenda—a major concession! Wouldn't it be greedy and ungrateful for me to keep criticizing him about the pronouns and language thing, given that he'd thrown me a bone here? Shouldn't I "call it even"?
+
+That's not how it works. The entire concept of there being "sides" to which one can make "concessions" is an artifact of human coalitional instincts; it's not something that _actually makes sense_. My posse and I were trying to get a clarification about a philosophy-of-language claim Yudkowsky had made a few months prior ("you're not standing in defense of truth if [...]"), which I claimed was substantively misleading.
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+Why would I 
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+That was 
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+
 
-That's not how it works. The entire concept of there being "sides" to which one can make "concessions" is an artifact of human coalitional instincts; it's not something that _actually makes sense_. My posse and I were trying to get a clarification about a philosophy of language claim Yudkowsky had made a few months prior ("you're not standing in defense of truth if [...]").
 
 [TODO bookmark: finish section explaining why concessions are not the Way ...]
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md b/content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md
index 6230d5e..2a934f7 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md
+++ b/content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md
@@ -383,3 +383,4 @@ I met Jessica in March
 [TODO: credit assignment ritual ($18200 credit-assignment ritual): $5K to Michael, $1200 each to trans widow friend, 3 care team members (Alicorn Sarah Anna), Ziz, Olivia, and Sophia, $400 each to Steve, A.M., Watson, "Wilhelm", Jonah, James, Ben, Kevin, Alexei (declined), Andrew, Divia, Lex, Devi]
 
 [On my last day at SwiftStack, I said that I was taking a sabbatical from my software engineering career to become a leading intellectual figure of the alternative right. That was a joke, but not one that I would have made after Charlottesville.]
+

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
index d2fc412..cb15c84 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
+++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ _ Quillette link placement in proton concession
 _ did that Reddit comment cite "Kelsey" or "TUOC"?
 _ quote from "Kolmogorov complicity" about everything being connected
 _ citation/explanation for saying "Peace be unto him"
-_ link "other Harry Potter author"
 _ address the "maybe it's good to be called names" point from "Hill" thread
 _ quote part of the "Hill" thread emphasizing "it's a policy decision", not just "it's not lying", if there is one besides the "Aristotelian binary" Tweet
 _ quote "maybe as a matter of policy" secondary Tweet earlier before quote
 _ 2019 Discord discourse with Alicorner
 _ screenshot Rob's Facebook comment which I link
+_ compile Categories references from the Dolphin War
 
 
 far editing tier—
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ _ erasing agency of Michael's friends, construed as a pawn
 _ chat with "Wilhelm" during March 2019 minor psych episode
 _ mention the fact that Anna had always taken a "What You Can't Say" strategy
 _ when to use first _vs. last names
+_ explain why I'm not being charitable in 2018 thread analysis, that at the time, I thought it had to be a mistake
 
 
 people to consult before publishing, for feedback or right of objection—
@@ -39,8 +40,8 @@ _ Scott
 _ Anna
 _ secret posse member
 _ someone from Alicorner #drama as a hostile prereader (Swimmer?)
-_ Kelsey (very briefly, just about her name)
-_ Alicorner email ettiquete question
+_ maybe Kelsey (very briefly, just about her name)?
+_ maybe SK (briefly about his name)?
 (probably don't bother with Michael?)
 
 things to bring up in consultation emails—
@@ -924,3 +925,11 @@ Sucking up the the Blue Egregore would make sense if you _knew_ that was the cri
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mmHctwkKjpvaQdC3c/what-should-you-change-in-response-to-an-emergency-and-ai
 
 I don't think I can use Ben's "Eliza the spambot therapist" analogy because it relies on the "running out the clock" behavior, and I'm Glomarizing 
+
+This should be common sense, though
+https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/3szWd8HwWccJb9z5L/the-ea-community-might-be-neglecting-the-value-of
+
+she thought "I'm trans" was an explanation, but then found a better theory that explains the same data—that's what "rationalism" should be—including "That wasn't entirely true!!!!"
+https://somenuanceplease.substack.com/p/actually-i-was-just-crazy-the-whole
+
+sorrow at putting on a bad performance with respect to the discourse norms of the people I'm trying to rescue/convert; I think my hostile shorthand (saying that censorship costs nothing implies some combination "speech isn't useful" and "other people aren't real" is pointing at real patterns, but people who aren't already on my side are not going to be sympathetic)

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index c1bc991..9050daf 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 
 Comment: The Dunbar reference on the definition of "personality" is actually real! (_Primate Social Systems_, Ch. 11, "Mechanics of Exploitation")
 
-Really?
 
-(It's great if I'm actually managing to pull it off! With "Blame Me for Trying", most commenters seemed to take the story at face value, but I wasn't sure how much of that was politeness.)
+(stability_unsafe-0gZ54e7b) zmd@ReflectiveCoherence:~/Code/Misc/stability_unsafe$ python stability_sdk/src/stability_sdk/client.py "25-year-old Nana Visitor in the shower in 1996, full body shot, 4K digital photo" -n 4
 
 
 

diff --git a/pelicanconf.py b/pelicanconf.py
index 598a7d2..0201e26 100644 (file)
--- a/pelicanconf.py
+++ b/pelicanconf.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ LINKS = (
     ('Kathleen Stock', "https://kathleenstock.substack.com/"),
     ('Pasha\'s Office ', "https://pashasoffice.blogspot.com/"),
     ('Ținând de Mâinii Strigoii-lor', "https://strigoi.substack.com/"),
+    ('Some Nuance, Please', "https://somenuanceplease.substack.com/"),
 )
 
 DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 20