tap outline

I think a lot of the autobiographical content I don't already have
written; I should bring up emails and chatlogs while I draft it.

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 797d03f..f9dae97 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
@@ -158,6 +158,20 @@ Straight men who fantasize about being women do not particularly resemble actual
 
 [TODO: one thing that kept coming up during the private and Facebook discussions was this category boundary argument—including, e.g., with MIRI comms director Rob Bensinger. That part, I knew I could win]
 
-[TODO: so when I quit my job in order to write, the capstone of my sabbatical was to be "The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions", which I later followed up with the "Reply on Adult Human Females" ... and mostly, things were fine—I was disappointed with my impact, but it wasn't grounds to declare the whole community a fraud]
+[TODO: so when I quit my job in order to write (mention HRT experiment too), the capstone of my sabbatical was to be "The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions", which I later followed up with the "Reply on Adult Human Females" ... and mostly, things were fine—I was disappointed with my impact, but it wasn't grounds to declare the whole community a fraud]
 
 [TODO: I was at the company offsite browsing Twitter (which I had recently joined with fantasies of self-cancelling) when I saw the "Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning", and I _flipped the fuck out_]
+
+[TODO: getting support from Michael + Ben + Sarah, harrassing Scott and Eliezer]
+
+[TODO: proton concession]
+
+[TODO: "Blegg Mode", "Where to Draw the Boundaries?", and failure]
+
+[TODO: more blogging (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5aqumaym7Jd2qhDcy/containment-thread-on-the-motivation-and-political-context), 2019 Christmas party, disclaimer on "Categories Were Made"]
+
+[TODO: categories clarification from EY—victory?!]
+
+[TODO: "simplest and best" pronoun proposal, sometimes personally prudent]
+
+[TODO: why you should care; no one should like Scott and Eliezer's proposals]

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index 1f31392..b611788 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -2960,3 +2960,5 @@ https://mrwinstonmarshall.medium.com/why-im-leaving-mumford-sons-e6e731bbc255
 John Stuart Mill also believed that the best people are androgynous: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048402.1986.9755426?journalCode=rajp20
 
 Blogroll maybe? https://strigoi.substack.com/p/a-few-notes-on-agp
+
+https://dnyuz.com/2022/02/18/nyt-under-fire-for-chilling-advert-inviting-readers-to-imagine-harry-potter-without-creator/