From: Zack M. Davis Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 01:44:07 +0000 (-0700) Subject: memoir: pre-cut "state of Steven" §? X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=33187d54f5ea96859ea41473e457b019b4678d52;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git memoir: pre-cut "state of Steven" §? I read the email, and I don't feel super-motivated to summarize it, which could be laziness, but could also be a sign that this part just isn't that important? (The goal of the post is not to exhaustively summarize every email I sent between May 2019 and January 2021, but to hit the highlights and give a sense of what happened.) Pt. 3 is at 25400 words already; I'm going to want to slim down the sections that are already there. Maybe it's okay that I just ... don't write this part, as opposed to my old strategy of wasting a lot of time writing a play-by-play and then throwing it away?? --- diff --git a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md index 75903cc..a050c8f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md +++ b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md @@ -321,10 +321,6 @@ This is arguably one of my more religious traits. Michael and Kelsey are domain ------- -[TODO: State of Steven; maybe fold in content from "uh, guys??" 21 July?] - -------- - I wanted to finish the memoir-post mourning the "rationalists", but I still felt psychologically constrained, bound by internal silencing-chains. So instead, I mostly turned to a combination of writing bitter and insulting comments whenever I saw someone praise the "rationalists" collectively, and—more philosophy blogging! In August 2019's ["Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), I explained a nuance that had only merited a passion mention in "... Boundaries?": sometimes you might want categories for different agents to _coordinate_ on, even at the cost of some statistical "fit." (This was of course generalized from a "pro-trans" argument that had occured to me, [that self-identity is an easy Schelling point when different people disagree about what "gender" they perceive someone as](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/).) diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md index 4d6e6da..df70f6d 100644 --- a/notes/memoir-sections.md +++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ slotted TODO blocks— ✓ plan to reach out to "Ethan" ✓ Michael on creepy men/crazy men ✓ repair pt. 5 dath ilan transition -_ State of Steven _ reaction to Ziz - Eliezerfic fight conclusion