From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 09:13:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d26e8965d7c77b4a50a67b7dac421a6f7e1c6b0e;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index 040eb59..b7594a1 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/ > > —Zora Neale Hurston -> PEARL: Well it wasn't really a "test", per se. Not in the traditional sense. We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions. -> STEVEN: That's exactly what a test is! +> STEVEN: Test? What do you mean, test? +> PEARL: Eugh, well, it wasn't really a "test", per se. Not in the traditional sense. We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions. +> STEVEN: That's _exactly_ what a test is! > > —_Steven Universe_, "The Test" diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index d98f197..fe626a3 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -2032,3 +2032,10 @@ https://reclaimthenet.org/threats-of-violence-censorship-for-womens-rights-group https://archive.vn/hQFh1 pee fantasy: https://ericatgswapcaps.blogspot.com/2020/09/swap-clinic-favorite-thing.html + +https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/f0dfmt/has_anyone_ever_wrestled_with_guys_and_be/ + +> Make a mistake, suffer a disaster, learn a lesson. Make two mistakes, suffer a disaster, learn half a lesson. +https://twitter.com/spaceandgames/status/210229439395659776 + +Oftentimes you genuinely happen to run out of time for a particular conversation, and that's fine: if your stopping algorithm is based on how busy you are that day and the expected information value of the remaining conversation, then we should expect to get accurate shared maps _eventually_, even if some topics get "unlucky" that you were busy that day. If your stopping algorithm is based on political convenience (you leave the conversation _because_ the other party made a good point that you're not allowed to admit in Berkeley), then we _don't_ converge to accurate shared maps! diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 04394a6..621ec32 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,22 +1,24 @@ Main path (important posts)— -_ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + S. Finley + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + paid-editor) - - Milestone— -_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems +_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems (possibly skippable? I just want this to be over) _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW) - -Ancillary documents and marketing channels for milestone— _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda +_ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + Rich + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + paid-editor) + +Marketing channels— _ FUEY _ comment to V."C."S. on "Maybe Lying Can't Exist?!" -_ comment to V.K. +_ comment on W.D. on "Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist" +_ comment to V.K. on May thread _ epilogue email to S.A. +_ explain "algorthimic" playing dumb to S.A. _ comment to G.J.M.?? _ message to P."O."L. _ Twitter +_ Facebook tag R.B. _ Reddit submissions: /r/philosophy and /r/TheMotte +_ S. Finley share _ Irreversible Damage review @@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title) Angelic Irony Memetics vs. Discourse -Being Willing to Change Your Mind Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness +Cromwell's Rule Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness Honesty Is Activism The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does @@ -119,6 +121,8 @@ _ Product Review: FaceApp _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up. Deterrent: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/case-social-media-mobs/612202/ Another example: https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240 +Psychiatrist's response to me is kind of case-in-point https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4valma/ + you regress to your group's mean—but that depends on how you draw the category boundaries around group membership! This could be a good math post!! https://humanvarieties.org/2017/07/01/measurement-error-regression-to-the-mean-and-group-differences/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis." diff --git a/notes/tweet_pad.txt b/notes/tweet_pad.txt index 8d77e1c..bbf4590 100644 --- a/notes/tweet_pad.txt +++ b/notes/tweet_pad.txt @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Okay, THIS TIME if I've learned the math DEEPLY enough & explain the math CLEARL Who would have thought getting @ESYudkowsky's robot cult to stop trying to trick me into cutting my dick off (independently of the empirical facts determining whether or not I should cut my dick off) would involve so much math?? OK, I guess the math part isn't surprising, but— +KQED was asked: "When will life be better in California?" +KQED answered: "In California, life already has been better." + In the NRx production of Hairspray, "You Can't Stop the Beat" is re-keyed to a chilling C minor On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life