From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:20:08 +0000 (-0700) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8dcaedb813af1c8d59f542cfe5dfe72c980ced33;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- 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 baf50f8..0c9752a 100644 --- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md @@ -653,6 +653,9 @@ https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation/ ] [TODO: "out of patience" email] + + + [TODO: Sep 2020 categories clarification from EY—victory?! https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10158853851009228 _ex cathedra_ statement that gender categories are not an exception to the rule, only 1 year and 8 months after asking for it diff --git a/content/drafts/pseudonym-misgivings.md b/content/drafts/pseudonym-misgivings.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a85edc --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/pseudonym-misgivings.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Title: Pseudonym Misgivings +Date: 2022-12-01 11:00 +Category: commentary +Tags: personal, meta +Status: draft + +> Don't think. +> If you think, then don't speak. +> If you think and speak, then don't write. +> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign. +> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised. +> +> —Soviet proverb diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 893c89f..ae698ba 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +on deck— +_ excerpt "out of patience" email +_ finish and polish § on reaching out a fourth time +_ § about privacy norms, and my secret research project +_ talk about the 2019 Christmas party +_ Let's recap +_ If he's reading this ... +_ Perhaps if the world were at stake + + with internet available— _ Gallileo "And yet it moves" _ Discord logs before Austin retreat @@ -566,6 +576,8 @@ https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5310 contrast to masochism being an infohazard in dath ilan: in real life, when your sexuality is considered an infrohazard (supposedly for the benefit of people with your sexuality), you don't take it lying down +Keltham contradicts himself inside of a single tag! Using the words "shape" and "covert" both times!! + Scott has the power to set narratives, as evidenced by his attack on Michael hijacking Jessica's thread maybe he should have some sympathy for Stephen J. Gould's intellectual crimes diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index fb046ff..543189c 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -233,14 +233,6 @@ http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ > > —old Soviet joke (paraphrased) -> Don't think. -> If you think, then don't speak. -> If you think and speak, then don't write. -> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign. -> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised. -> -> —Soviet proverb - https://xkcd.com/1942/ > A woman came up to me and said @@ -377,3 +369,7 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/ > When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it. > > –Emile Zola + +> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are." +> +> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index f5af51b..6dad2b0 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,9 +1,5 @@ Minor ready or almost-ready— _ Interlude XXII -_ 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") - Urgent/needed for healing— _ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia @@ -11,7 +7,6 @@ _ Pseudonym Misgivings _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning - Big posts— _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America