From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 21:05:32 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Sunday redemption hypercycle 3: poking at "A Hill" X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8a72d682c0ff7e71197ddbc8e59472ebdceac64;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git Sunday redemption hypercycle 3: poking at "A Hill" This is barely any new words, but the point is to keep the timer running and me being engaged with editing the file. If I just spend enough interminable hours engaging with editing the file, eventually the memoir will be complete. --- 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 ede0f3c..4e01eab 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 @@ -212,14 +212,22 @@ However weird I must have seemed, I have trouble imagining what anyone else tell But (as I told the LCSW) I would _know_ that I was cherry-picking. HSTS-taxon boys are identified as effiminate _by others_. [You know it when you see it, even when you're ideologically prohibited from _knowing_ that you know.](TODO: write "Gaydar Jamming" and linky) That's—not me. I [don't even _want_ that to be me](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/#if-i-have-to-choose). I definitely have a gender _thing_, but I have a pretty detailed model of what I think the thing actually is in the real physical universe, and my model doesn't _fit_ in the ever-so-compassionate and -equitable ontology of "gender identity", which presupposes that what's going on when I report _wishing_ I were female is the _same thing_ as what's going on with actual women who (objectively correctly) report being female. [I don't think it's the same thing](TODO: linky autogenderphilia reply?), and I think you'd have to be [crazy or a liar](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y4bkJTtG3s5d6v36k/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away) to say it's plausibly the same thing. -Another consequence of my Blanchardian enlightenment is that around this time (maybe [specifically on 7 October 2016](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/late-onset/)) +Another consequence of my Blanchardian enlightenment is that around this time was my [break with progressive morality](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/late-onset/). I had never really been progressive, as such. +I was registered to vote as a Libertarian, owing to a teenage +with Ayn Rand and the greater libertarian blogosphere. +But there was still a cultural assumption, + +http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/03/brand-rust/ + + +(I remember that in senior year of high school in 'aught-five, on Coming Out Day, my physics teacher said that she was coming out as a Republican. Even then, I got the joke, but I didn't realize the implications.) [TODO: another thing that happened about this time was my break with progressive morality; I had never been progressive along all dimensions (Ayn Rand, registered libertarian), but antisexism was very important to me, and even after I had mostly unwound the dysfunctional parts of that, I still thought of myself as on the Blue team -http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/03/brand-rust/ ] + ] [TODO: October 2016: another thing that happened around this time I wrote Eliezer to ask about the conflict with "Changing Emotions" and made a Cheerful Price offer to talk about it https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MzKKi7niyEqkBPnyu/your-cheerful-price (shut up, we're not a cult) ] diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 9fc5b26..b7d784b 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -3119,3 +3119,5 @@ Is there a third subtype? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/44-dr-susan-brad https://cutdowntree.substack.com/p/gender-identity-isnt-real > My friend's response was that it didn't matter [compare Ozy on "Lies to Cis People"] + +GPT just finished a completion with `_Crossposted to [crossdreamers.com](https://crossdreamers.com/2022/06/05/ideological-evolution-from-gender-stereotypes-to-gaydar/)._`! It knows about Jack Molay (but probably doesn't know about me)!