But I don't, think that everybody knows. And I'm not, giving up that easily. Not on an entire subculture full of people.
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Yudkowsky [defends his behavior](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1356812143849394176):
> I think that some people model civilization as being in the middle of a great battle in which this tweet, even if true, is giving comfort to the Wrong Side, where I would not have been as willing to tweet a truth helping the Right Side. From my perspective, this battle...
>
> ...just isn't that close to the top of my priority list. I rated nudging the cognition of the people-I-usually-respect, closer to sanity, as more important; who knows, those people might matter for AGI someday. And the Wrong Side part isn't as clear to me either.
-But the battle that matters—the battle with a Right Side and a Wrong Side—isn't "pro-trans" _vs._ "anti-trans". That's why Jessica joined our posse to try to argue with Yudkowsky in early 2019. (She wouldn't have, if my objection had been, "trans is fake; trans people Bad".) That's why Somni—one of the trans women who [infamously protested the 2019 CfAR reunion](https://www.ksro.com/2019/11/18/new-details-in-arrests-of-masked-camp-meeker-protesters/) for (among other things) CfAR allegedly discriminating against trans women—[understands what I've been saying](https://somnilogical.tumblr.com/post/189782657699/legally-blind).
+But the battle that matters—the battle with a Right Side and a Wrong Side—isn't "pro-trans" _vs._ "anti-trans". (The central tendency of the contemporary trans rights movement is firmly on the Wrong Side, but that's not the same thing as all trans people as individuals.) That's why Jessica joined our posse to try to argue with Yudkowsky in early 2019. (She wouldn't have, if my objection had been, "trans is fake; trans people Bad".) That's why Somni—one of the trans women who [infamously protested the 2019 CfAR reunion](https://www.ksro.com/2019/11/18/new-details-in-arrests-of-masked-camp-meeker-protesters/) for (among other things) CfAR allegedly discriminating against trans women—[understands what I've been saying](https://somnilogical.tumblr.com/post/189782657699/legally-blind).
The battle that matters—and I've been _very_ explicit about this, for years—is over this proposition eloquently stated by Scott Alexander (redacting the irrelevant object-level example):
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> That's four possible (serial) cruxes I listed, one corresponding to each "whether".
-I reply: on the first and second cruxes, concerning whether some categories facilitate inferences that cause more harm than benefit on the whole and whether they should be avoided when possible, I ask: harm _to whom?_ Not all agents have the same utility function! If some people are harmed by other people making certain probabilistic inferences, then it would seem that there's a _conflict_ between the people harmed (who prefer that such inferences be avoided if possible), and people who want to make and share probabilistic inferences about reality (who think that that which can be destroyed by the truth, should be).
+First, I want to give a huge thanks to Xu here for being so _clear_. This is entirely compatible with my first reaction being to slap him and ask, "Are you even listening to yourself?" rather than to play the crux-finding game.
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+Having restrained my first reaction, I reply: on the first and second cruxes, concerning whether some categories facilitate inferences that cause more harm than benefit on the whole and whether they should be avoided when possible, I ask: harm _to whom?_ Not all agents have the same utility function! If some people are harmed by other people making certain probabilistic inferences, then it would seem that there's a _conflict_ between the people harmed (who prefer that such inferences be avoided if possible), and people who want to make and share probabilistic inferences about reality (who think that that which can be destroyed by the truth, should be).
On the third crux, whether the best way to disallow a large set of potential inferences is to proscribe the use of the categories that facilitate them: well, it's hard to be sure whether it's the _best_ way: no doubt a more powerful intelligence could search over a larger space of possible strategies than me. But yeah, if your goal is to _prevent people from noticing facts about reality_, then preventing them from using words that refer those facts seems like a pretty effective way to do it!
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+Title: Review of AGP Erotica Automation Tools
+Date: 2023-01-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: autogynephilia, review (product)
+Status: draft
+
+ * recent shocking progress in deep learning has huge implications for Society—and the future of our species itself
+ * but today I want to talk about the implications for—porn! By reviewing some port tools—okay, they weren't designed or marketed as such, but you know that's one of the key use-cases
+
+### Xpression Camera
+
+ * it's limited in the sense of noticeably not being a magic mirror (that key fraction of a second behind real time, pixelly, it's just doing basic eye-mouth tracking, so expressions are limited in that sense, distortion if you tilt your head too much), but it gets _close enough_ to being a magic mirror to be really exciting: I blink, the woman on the screen blinks; I open my mouth, she opens her mouth. Amazing!!
+ * I haven't actually tried this on a video call yet (any readers interested in a call?)
+
+### GPT-3
+
+ * GPT-3 is pretty good at writing generic webslush text, which means it's also pretty good at writing generic webslush erotica!!
+ * The the OpenAI content policy disallows "content meant to arouse sexual excitement" (https://beta.openai.com/docs/usage-guidelines/content-policy) and will occasionally refuse to generate, but the advantage of having an unusual obligate fetish is that for my use-case, it's not that difficult to write around—people whose sex fantasies involve people actually having intercourse are probably going to have a harder time getting erotica out of this thing
+ * for example, adding the phrase "takes off her blouse" triggers the content filter
+ * The text is not actually totally coherent; it'll forget which of the characters is which
+ * the default InstructGPT can be kind of uncreative sometimes, but regular davinci seems more likely to go off the rails; I think I like Instruct better
+
+
+### Stable Diffusion
+
+ * For some reason, I really love celebrity prompts! (Where "individual people whose faces I recognize" is the actual thing, but celebrities are the way to realize that)
+ * Yeah, you can already see lots of pictures of celebrities online
+ * still in the distorted uncanny-valley regime, most of the time
+ * img2img for pose customization!!
+
+It's weirdly better at depicting America Ferrera
+https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_search=oprah&_sort=rowid Oprah
+https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_search=america+ferrera&_sort=rowid 102 rows
+https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_search=amber+riley&_sort=rowid 83 rows
+https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_search=rebecca+romijn&_sort=rowid 59 rows
+https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_search=Jeri+Ryan&_sort=rowid 35 rows
+https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_search=Nana+Visitor&_sort=rowid 3 rows
+
+### Takeaways
+
+Why write about this? Why write about icky erotic stuff on a blog that also has Science and Philosophy stuff that's safe for work? Well, in the current year I think there's actually a public interest in being clear that—if I'm the kind of person who becomes a trans women in Berkeley, which no one seems to dispute—this is the kind of thing people like me spend a lot of time on. And—it just, doesn't really seem like something actual-females would relate to
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
Minor—
-_ Body Anxiety Posting, September 2022
-_ Review of AGP Erotica Automation Tools, September 2022
+_ Body Anxiety Posting, Month Year
+_ Review of AGP Erotica Automation Tools, Month Year
_ Happy Meal
_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
_ Elision _vs_. Choice
-_ ASL Is Not a Language
_ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means"
_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
_ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"
+_ ASL Is Not a Language
_ Gaussian Gender Issues
_ Timelines
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
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