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diff --git a/content/2023/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/2023/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
index 6f5db89..4fb7a26 100644 (file)
--- a/content/2023/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
+++ b/content/2023/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
@@ -619,4 +619,4 @@ This wasn't about direct benefit _vs._ harm. This was about what, substantively,
 
 Ben compared the whole set-up to that of Eliza the spambot therapist in my short story ["Blame Me for Trying"](/2018/Jan/blame-me-for-trying/): regardless of the initial intent, scrupulous rationalists were paying rent to something claiming moral authority, which had no concrete specific plan to do anything other than run out the clock, maintaining a facsimile of dialogue in ways well-calibrated to continue to generate revenue. Minds like mine wouldn't survive long-term in this ecosystem. If we wanted minds that do "naïve" inquiry (instead of playing savvy power games) to live, we needed an interior that justified that level of trust.
 
-(To be continued. Yudkowsky would [eventually clarify his position on the philosophy of categorization in September 2021](https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10158853851009228)—but the story leading up to that will have to wait for another day.)
+(To be continued. Yudkowsky would [eventually clarify his position on the philosophy of categorization in September 2020](https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10158853851009228)—but the story leading up to that will have to wait for another day.)

diff --git a/notes/critical_acclaim.md b/notes/critical_acclaim.md
index e7f09ea..ff2fbe9 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/critical_acclaim.md
+++ b/notes/critical_acclaim.md
@@ -170,3 +170,24 @@ https://twitter.com/randomstring729/status/1672284217856720896
 
 https://twitter.com/CasaubonZ/status/1672106657047015424
 > honestly one of the many reasons why Eliezer Yudkowsky will burn is for the way that rationalist brainworms seriously fuck with ppl questioning their gender.
+
+https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1680409277952065537
+>> my long con is contributing patches to rust so i can later shill blanchard's transsexualism typology on my personal twitter account, all to piss off the rust community as punishment for their suffocating wokeness
+>
+>lesswrong is hitting so different these days 😳
+
+https://twitter.com/mutual_ayyde/status/1680444686169960448
+> this is shit i'd rather commit suicide over admitting oh my god
+
+https://twitter.com/vansianism/status/1680447935371436032
+> There's being a repressor in denial and there's being this. Okay it's not as bad as ted k but still lmao
+
+https://twitter.com/mutual_ayyde/status/1680448722222841859
+> i've tried to rationalize my self hate many a time but never this rigorously
+
+https://twitter.com/mutual_ayyde/status/1680445977109626881
+> lesswrong is like a particle accelerator for posting, this is some pathos on par with tolsoi, thank you for this
+
+https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1680457016773595137
+> man
+> at the end of the day i can't help but have any reaction to zack-m-davisism other than "this is an exotic flower of an ideology that can't grow anywhere else but this greenhouse we've built"

diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
index 6980c57..96fcc92 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/memoir-sections.md
+++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-pt. 2 near editing tier—
-✓ alphabet bump
-✓ Ziz and Gwen archive
-✓ explain Michael's gaslighting charge
-✓ attacking him but not betraying him
-✓ Ziz chocolate anecdote/history
-✓ I claim that I'm not doing much psychologizing because implausible to be simultaenously savvy enough to say this, and naive enough to not be doing so knowingly
-
-
-------
 _ mention "special simulator attention" in cxn with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_of_reference_and_delusions_of_reference
 _ pt. 1 end needs to mention BABSCon (back referenced)
 _ born five years too early
@@ -2668,3 +2658,6 @@ When I mentioned re-reading Moldbug on "ignoble privilege", "Thomas" said that i
 He advised me that if I did find an androgynous woman I was into, I shouldn't treat her as a moral authority. Doing what most sensitive men thought of as equality degenerated into female moral superiority, which wrecks the relationship in a feedback loop of testing and resentment. (Women want to win arguments in the moment, but don't actually want to lead the relationship.) Thus, a strange conclusion: to have an egalitarian heterosexual relationship, the man needs to lead the relationship _into_ equality; a dab of patriarchy works better than none.
 
 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/should-we-fear-ai-james-w-phillips-and-eliezer-yudkowsky-in-conversation/
+
+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1680166329209466881
+> I am increasingly worried about what people start to believe in after they stop believing in Me

diff --git a/notes/memoir_wordcounts.py b/notes/memoir_wordcounts.py
index a25967c..2d74ca9 100755 (executable)
--- a/notes/memoir_wordcounts.py
+++ b/notes/memoir_wordcounts.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ MONTHS = {
 }
 
 def wordcount_at_this_sha():
-    result = subprocess.run("wc -w content/2023/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md content/drafts/zevis-choice.md content/drafts/standing-under-the-same-sky.md content/drafts/the-last-indictment.md".split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    result = subprocess.run("wc -w content/2023/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md content/2023/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md content/drafts/zevis-choice.md content/drafts/standing-under-the-same-sky.md content/drafts/the-last-indictment.md".split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
     wc_lines = result.stdout.decode('utf8').split('\n')
     total_line = wc_lines[-2]  # last line is empty
     return int(total_line.split()[0])

diff --git a/notes/wordcounts.txt b/notes/wordcounts.txt
index e7238c4..3afb96b 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/wordcounts.txt
+++ b/notes/wordcounts.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ wc -w 2023/* 2022/* 2021/* 2020/* 2019/* 2018/* 2017/* 2016/* | sort -n -s -k1,1
  12011 2022/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md
  15738 2021/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
  21485 2023/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md
-155267 total
+ 22417 2023/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
+177684 total
+
 
   1491 algorithms_of_deception.md
   1552 endogenous_epistemic_factionalization.md