From: Zack M. Davis Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:24:56 +0000 (-0800) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb8bc03a309f3cace6e526def9540880e72293fe;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md index 359bff2..5e38d16 100644 --- a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md +++ b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md @@ -537,9 +537,9 @@ Later, I felt the need to write another message clarifying exactly what I found [He put a check-mark emoji reaction on it](/images/davis-amounts-to-giving-up-on-the-concept-of-intellectual-honesty.png), indicating agreement or approval. -If the caliph has lost his faith in the power of intellectual honesty, I can't necessarily say he's wrong on the empirical merits. It is written that our world is [beyond the reach of God](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god); there's no law of physics that says honesty must yield better results than propaganda. +If the caliph has lost his [belief in](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/duvzdffTzL3dWJcxn/believing-in-1) the power of intellectual honesty, I can't necessarily say he's wrong on the empirical merits. It is written that our world is [beyond the reach of God](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god); there's no law of physics that says honesty must yield better results than propaganda. -But since I haven't relinquished my faith, I have the responsibility to point out that the formerly rightful caliph has relinquished his Art and lost his powers. +But since I haven't relinquished my belief in honesty, I have the responsibility to point out that the formerly rightful caliph has relinquished his Art and lost his powers. The modern Yudkowsky [writes](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1096769579362115584): diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md index 219e3b3..e573a8e 100644 --- a/notes/memoir-sections.md +++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ time-sensitive globals TODOs— _ rewrite pt. 4 _ consult Anna -_ consult Said +✓ consult Said _ publish pt. 4 -------- @@ -2820,4 +2820,7 @@ https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1680840089285582848 (If your "moderately serious" plan for survival is ["AI research journals banned, people violating that ban hunted down with partial effectiveness"](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1739705063768232070), that might be your least-bad option as a consequentialist, but one of the things your consequentialist calculation should take into account is that you've declared war on people who want to do AI science on Earth.) public intellectual death -https://scholars-stage.org/public-intellectuals-have-short-shelf-lives-but-why/ \ No newline at end of file +https://scholars-stage.org/public-intellectuals-have-short-shelf-lives-but-why/ + +> "Racism" is so commonly used weirdly that I think there are few circumstances left where I'd try to use the word to communicate. Instead I'd say, "X seems to be judging people negatively in a hard-to-shake-off way based on their skin color." +https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1755624226550387013 diff --git a/notes/memoir_wordcounts.csv b/notes/memoir_wordcounts.csv index a7b32b9..df168a3 100644 --- a/notes/memoir_wordcounts.csv +++ b/notes/memoir_wordcounts.csv @@ -652,4 +652,17 @@ 01/28/2024,118570,0 01/29/2024,118570,0 01/30/2024,118570,0 -01/31/2024, \ No newline at end of file +01/31/2024,118580,10 +02/01/2024,118617,37 +02/02/2024,118617,0 +02/03/2024,118617,0 +02/04/2024,118617,0 +02/05/2024,118617,0 +02/06/2024,118628,11 +02/07/2024,118628,0 +02/08/2024,118628,0 +02/09/2024,118628,0 +02/10/2024,118628,0 +02/11/2024,, + + diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index d7c0b9b..6709f36 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -3402,3 +3402,4 @@ https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1731503700353421315 > It's less that it has to be done in human ways, & more that it has to be done for human reasons Shannon Thrace appeals to the "principle of charity" and "steelmanning": https://twitter.com/ShannonThrace/status/1749609014982258933 So she is memetically downstream of us! It's not at all obvious! +In a later Tweet (https://twitter.com/ShannonThrace/status/1756776030453272681), she cites Volokh Conspiracy (https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/12/steelmanning-and-interpretive-charity/) who cites LW and Chana Messinger