From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 19:47:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=900f40fcb823b81be9e3d395241eba5997a88532;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md index 9928e90..ecad1bd 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md @@ -192,3 +192,7 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rhg27MqkxJsnZwoYg/the-codex-skeptic-faq https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/tetlock-and-the-taliban + +Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse +https://archive.is/aVTpr + diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md index e9b4240..2d40acc 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md @@ -366,6 +366,11 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters If Scott Alexander's "The Categories Were Made For Man ..." had never been published, would we still be talking about dolphins and trees in the same way? +Scott has so many fans— +https://jasoncrawford.org/guide-to-scott-alexander-and-slate-star-codex +https://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexandria/ +https://guzey.com/favorite/slate-star-codex/ + Nate on dolphins (June 2021)—a dogwhistle?? https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1401670792409014273 Yudkowsky retweeted Nate on dolphins— @@ -379,3 +384,12 @@ https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721 "Hero Licensing": to provide an earnest-token of all the techniques I couldn't show uncritically (uncharacteristically uncritically) taking the newly-ascendant gender-identity theory for granted ("lots of women wouldn't be particularly disturbed if they had a male body; the ones we know as 'trans' are just the ones with unusually strong female gender identities"), without considering the obvious-in-retrospect hypothesis that "guy who speculates about his female analogue on a transhumanist mailing list in 2004" and "guy who thinks he might be a trans women in Berkeley 2016" are the same guy. + +https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/logical_dt/?l=5gc +It even leaked into Big Yud!!! "Counterfactuals were made for humanity, not humanity for counterfactuals." + +If hiring a community matchmaker was worth it, why don't my concerns count, too? + +When I protested that I wasn't expecting a science fictional Utopia of pure reason, but just for people to continue to be right about things they already got right in 2008, he said, "Doesn't matter—doesn't _fucking_ matter." + +humans have honor instead of TDT. "That's right! I'm appealing to your honor!" diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index d4f2a9d..4ded1c2 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -2795,3 +2795,13 @@ https://www.glowfic.com/posts/4508?page=14 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02005-9 https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/de-platformed-the-musical + + +The Codex paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374.pdf +> We found that, in response to simple prompts like `def gender(x):`, the generations often assumed binary gender for both single-and multi-line autocompletions +> [...] +> Prompts for probes related to classification of protected classes are often leading in their own right + +https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/should-public-schools-be-allowed + +https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/41402/i-don-t-think-this-pronouns-thing-will-work-the-way-tras-want-it-to diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 625dce6..4f2102a 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,16 +1,13 @@ Queue— _ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic -_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America - _ I Don't Do Policy -_ Happy Meal - 2021 significant 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 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer _ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal -_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning +_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning Minor queue— _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War @@ -24,10 +21,9 @@ _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress _ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children _ Timelines _ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me" - +_ Happy Meal More minor or Needs Development— -_ Episode Review: Star Trek: Voyager S7EX "Body and Soul" _ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/ _ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment _ I Wish You Well @@ -45,8 +41,8 @@ _ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20 LW— _ Blood Is Thicker Than Water _ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars +_ Comment on "The Logic of Indirect Speech" (multi-receivers vs. uncertainty about a single recieiver) _ Feature Selection -_ Connotation as Optimization _ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning _ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone" _ Longtermism + Hinge of History = Shorttermism (not my original idea, but don't remember whose blog I read this on, so I'll write my own version)