From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:52:59 +0000 (-0700) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a5692d416691d70362660ce5600c609529583723;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 a54054f..f127ed2 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 @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ Math and Wellness Month ended up being mostly a failure: the only math I ended u [TODO: State of Steven] -I still wanted to finish the memoir-post mourning the "rationalists", but I still felt psychologically constraint; I was still 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 (if you are silent about your pain, _they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it_), and—more philosophy-of-language blogging! +I still wanted to finish the memoir-post mourning the "rationalists", but I still felt psychologically constraint; I was still 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-of-language 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/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 115047c..1a1453f 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +blocky sections corresponding to an "event"— +_ Christmas party (do this today, 22 October?) +_ Sasha disaster (dedicate a day?) +_ the dolphin war (dedicate a day?) + + With internet available— _ "McCarthyist" should link to Moldbug on the "Brown Scare" _ check on wording of Yudkowsky's anti-Moldbug comment @@ -1509,3 +1515,4 @@ what's really weird is having a delusion, knowing it's a delusion, and _everyone you can't imagine contemporary Yudkowsky adhering to Crocker's rules (http://sl4.org/crocker.html) +(If you are silent about your pain, _they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it_.)