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3 years agobackport cosplay images
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:20:46 +0000 (19:20 -0800)]
backport cosplay images

3 years agoback-anchors ("Changing Emotions" links (5x), and Murray pt. II)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:43:44 +0000 (14:43 -0800)]
back-anchors ("Changing Emotions" links (5x), and Murray pt. II)

I'm a little worried about whether readers actually understand this
"linking to a hidden anchor in an arbitrary paragraph in the middle of
a post" technique? (If you just see the new tab of the old post
scrolled halfway down, it may not be obvious which part I'm trying to
direct you to without a section header to make it clearer.) But it
still seems better than not-doing it? I love my links.

3 years agoworking on filling in "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:16:06 +0000 (16:16 -0800)]
working on filling in "Sexual Dimorphism"

Is this thought-dumping bad writing? How am I going to edit this
monster? And yet doesn't it, despite everything, beat the alternative?
(The blog is over four years old; at least I'm getting things said
that I somehow didn't get around to in four years.)

3 years agoeh, just throw the Ranma image on the About page
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:24:05 +0000 (13:24 -0800)]
eh, just throw the Ranma image on the About page

I've had this sitting in the images directory forever—might as
well. (I'm not even particularly familiar with the manga, which I only
read a few borrowed books of in middle school! But—it's famous enough
to be a touchstone, to take part of my pen name from.)

4 years agocheck in
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4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism" day-after-Thanksgiving TODO pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:11:32 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" day-after-Thanksgiving TODO pass

4 years agoupdate old "Changing Emotions" links to nu-LessWrong (LW 2)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 03:48:27 +0000 (19:48 -0800)]
update old "Changing Emotions" links to nu-LessWrong (LW 2)

4 years agoprep and import scraps for T.K.o.t.M.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:35:38 +0000 (19:35 -0800)]
prep and import scraps for T.K.o.t.M.

Nothing to see here, mostly just importing some prose from a previous
unpublished research project that can be reused

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4 years agopick up that dropped factor of 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:33:36 +0000 (22:33 -0800)]
pick up that dropped factor of 2

The original calculation was comparing cis women to trans people in
general, but I want to be comparing cis women to trans women.

4 years agowrap up and publish "Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:12:46 +0000 (22:12 -0800)]
wrap up and publish "Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers"

4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism" to closing line (with many gaps)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:45:40 +0000 (12:45 -0800)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" to closing line (with many gaps)

Okay, I figured out where and how I want to close this off! I still
have a lot of writing to do to fill in all those TODO-labeled gaps,
and a lot of editing after that, but this is a nice
skeleton—especially the pelvis.

4 years agocheck in—with hope
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check in—with hope

It looks like I have three more straightforward minor posts to fit in
the pipeline before "Sexual Dimorphism": the 2020 Haskell survey data
is up, the /r/DrWillPowers threads shouldn't be that hard to
summarize, and I know why my first draft of "Crossing the Line" is
floppy. After "Sexual Dimorphism", I can turn to the finalization of
my philosophy-of-language thesis on the robot-cult blog, and then I'll
finally be free (or free to switch back to the gender war with "Trans
Kids on the Margin")

4 years agocheck in
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4 years agodrafted: "Crossing the Line"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:40:54 +0000 (17:40 -0800)]
drafted: "Crossing the Line"

What started out just being a paper-review got queered with riffing
off Julia Serano and the best song from the Tangled sequel series?
This is me.

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4 years agosocial media scrap notes
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social media scrap notes

4 years agonibble at "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"; cache rhetoric
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:33:17 +0000 (12:33 -0800)]
nibble at "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"; cache rhetoric

4 years agolater Tuesday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism", and check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:30:22 +0000 (23:30 -0800)]
later Tuesday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism", and check in

4 years agoschedule Nixon quotepost, "Interlude XX", and "The Feeling Is Mutual"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:18:44 +0000 (23:18 -0800)]
schedule Nixon quotepost, "Interlude XX", and "The Feeling Is Mutual"

4 years agoearlier Tuesday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:35:12 +0000 (12:35 -0800)]
earlier Tuesday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

I really want to finish this piece! It sets down in words so many
things I haven't been writing about quickly enough for four years!

4 years agocheck in
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4 years agoSaturday haul
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 15 Nov 2020 07:32:53 +0000 (23:32 -0800)]
Saturday haul

This was not a good writing day. Social media addiction is really bad
for me and I need to be better at setting limits.

4 years agocheck in: towards a November (bottom half) blog activity burst?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:15:52 +0000 (14:15 -0800)]
check in: towards a November (bottom half) blog activity burst?

Activity on The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought is
sometimes "bursty", as I devote attention to the blog (in weeks that
my writing attention isn't focused on Less Wrong), as in April 2020
and December 2019. Maybe November 2019 will be another one of those,
capped by "Sexual Dimorphism" (if I can buckle down and finish it)?

Sometimes the motivation to backlink something from a big post
inspires small posts; for example, the reason I bothered to blog my
old stray thought about the reverse Murray rule is because I thought
it would be funny to backlink it from my Human Diversity review. The
Haskell survey data is similar: I left a Reddit comment about the 2018
survey
(https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/9yaj1w/2018_state_of_haskell_survey_results/ebm849g/),
but I want a proper post specifically for the "These days, most of the
women" line in "Sexual Dimorphism". The Sapir–Whorf paper is cool and
on-theme but also specifically would make a good backlink in the
"Harms From Misleading Training Data" effortpost on my horizon.

But my audience isn't going to be reading this Git commit message;
they're going to be reading the blog. Let's go! Already.

4 years agoinclude "link" in "Wells for Boys" linkpost slug
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:11:38 +0000 (14:11 -0800)]
include "link" in "Wells for Boys" linkpost slug

Ordinarily I would go to great lengths to avoid breaking links by
changing slugs without a redirect solution, but who links to a filler
linkpost? Nobody! Nobody in the whole blogosphere has linked to this!

4 years agocheck in
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4 years agoArmistice Day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
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Armistice Day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

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4 years agodrafting "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"
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drafting "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"

4 years ago"gender dysphoria" is fake and deserves scare quotes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Nov 2020 23:56:11 +0000 (15:56 -0800)]
"gender dysphoria" is fake and deserves scare quotes

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4 years agoadd Best-Of selection to About page
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add Best-Of selection to About page

4 years agocheck in notes
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4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism" Monday evening poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:49:42 +0000 (22:49 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" Monday evening poke

Bluebird website is really bad for me—I want to finish this

4 years agoMonday morning drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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Monday morning drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

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4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agopronoun glitch (on person! not gender! so it's OK)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 05:51:16 +0000 (21:51 -0800)]
pronoun glitch (on person! not gender! so it's OK)

4 years agofinish "The Feeling Is Mutual"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 04:26:10 +0000 (20:26 -0800)]
finish "The Feeling Is Mutual"

(I think this can basically be published whenever, but I'm not
thinking about scheduling now, I need to write "Sexual Dimorphism" in
the dying hours of this tragic Sunday)

4 years agoword choices; the badge trim refers to the social construct
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:57:52 +0000 (23:57 -0800)]
word choices; the badge trim refers to the social construct

4 years agocheck in
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4 years ago"Two Political Short Stories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:44:15 +0000 (23:44 -0800)]
"Two Political Short Stories"

The first is from Facebook this time four years ago (thanks to the "On
This Day" notification feature!)—verbatim except with the replacement
of "Russian" for "Chinese". (At the time, we knew that Orange Man Bad,
but we didn't know that he was Putin's lapdog.)

4 years agotwo-types anchor in "... To Make Predictions"
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two-types anchor in "... To Make Predictions"

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4 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 06:37:10 +0000 (23:37 -0700)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

4 years agofiller buffer: "Interlude XX"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 06:00:47 +0000 (23:00 -0700)]
filler buffer: "Interlude XX"

4 years agocan WNBA players take down a U.S. senator??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:19:20 +0000 (14:19 -0700)]
can WNBA players take down a U.S. senator??

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4 years agonibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agonibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"

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4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": explaining high-dimensionality, again
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Oct 2020 06:44:01 +0000 (23:44 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": explaining high-dimensionality, again

(This is one of my standard points that I'm pretty practiced at
explaining—should I regret it being in the middle of a long post,
rather than making it an individually linkable standalone (like I did
for just the math part)?)

I'm pleased with the height → faces → FaceApp → morphic-adaptation
flow.

4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences": lead-in to mapping and coda
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:07:52 +0000 (14:07 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences": lead-in to mapping and coda

4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": category of personal identity, into conclusion
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:11:52 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": category of personal identity, into conclusion

4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": Sorites identity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:52:04 +0000 (10:52 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": Sorites identity

4 years agocheck in notes
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4 years agoSunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 2
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Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 2

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4 years agoSunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 1
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Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 1

4 years agocheck in notes
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4 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"
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Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"

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4 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": morphic adaption unit specifications
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:31:54 +0000 (11:31 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": morphic adaption unit specifications

It's always hard to start writing, and it's especially hard to start
writing about this—but it's so important. To me.

4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agopoke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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4 years agosome sketching out TODO skeleton for "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:08:13 +0000 (10:08 -0700)]
some sketching out TODO skeleton for "Sexual Dimorphism"

I need to do my dayjob, but it would really be nice to make a push to
finish this post soon!

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4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
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drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

4 years agonibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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4 years agoexplain comment syntax options
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4 years agocheck in notes
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4 years agodrafting "Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes"
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drafting "Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes"

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4 years agoself-deception hash-anchor in "Human Diversity" review
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self-deception hash-anchor in "Human Diversity" review

4 years agoWells for Boys!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:16:51 +0000 (19:16 -0700)]
Wells for Boys!

I don't normally stoop to filler linkposts, but there's a first time
for everything? It is a thing that some blogs do?

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4 years agopoke
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4 years agostrip HTML inside <title> tags
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4 years agofinish and publish "Memento Mori"
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finish and publish "Memento Mori"

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4 years agoCurtis Yarvin robot cult quotepost
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Curtis Yarvin robot cult quotepost

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4 years agoday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

4 years agodown brightness, up contrast on descender handwriting sample
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down brightness, up contrast on descender handwriting sample

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4 years agopoke at "Memento Mori"
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poke at "Memento Mori"

4 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:21:52 +0000 (22:21 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"

4 years agoancillary pages for captions
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:19:52 +0000 (22:19 -0700)]
ancillary pages for captions

4 years agotap at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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tap at "Sexual Dimorphism"

I've been lazy, but it's time to make something of what's left of my
Sunday

4 years agodrafting "Memento Mori"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:48:20 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
drafting "Memento Mori"