M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:43:29 +0000 (10:43 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges"
Okay, this is coming together—the specific non-exaggerated personal
examples (HRT experiment was good, pronoun experiment would not be
good) are much more compelling than "cutting dick off" flamebait.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 4 Jan 2022 17:11:24 +0000 (09:11 -0800)]
skeleton for remainder of "Challenges"
I was pretty lazy for the second half of 2021, but let's turn it
around; I can do this; I can finish the piece and work towards moving
on with my life even though the rationalists are Dead To Me and it
still stings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 4 Jan 2022 04:03:46 +0000 (20:03 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Jan 2022 04:38:09 +0000 (20:38 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges"
A lot of trouble getting started today, but I did do something—the new
year isn't totally shot
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 1 Jan 2022 23:17:00 +0000 (15:17 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:21:36 +0000 (22:21 -0800)]
Tuesday evening
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:03:55 +0000 (11:03 -0800)]
Tuesday morning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:18:52 +0000 (10:18 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
Net 520 words in the hour before dayjob—I had been dead and
despairing, but then I remembered my righteous fury and leaned into
it, and honestly it's better this way
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:13:52 +0000 (20:13 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:43:24 +0000 (10:43 -0800)]
drafting AGenP reply
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:52:01 +0000 (21:52 -0800)]
drafting reply to S.A. on AGenP, cont'd
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:35:08 +0000 (13:35 -0800)]
drafting reply to Scott on AGenP
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Dec 2021 06:22:23 +0000 (22:22 -0800)]
xmas check in ...
2021 is basically over—I've been pretty useless for basically the
second half of this year. Does that change?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:30:19 +0000 (19:30 -0800)]
tap ...
Still in a psychological slump today
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:45:43 +0000 (09:45 -0800)]
Thursday's tap at "Challenges"
spent a lot of yesterday playing Slay the Spire :/
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:17:39 +0000 (11:17 -0800)]
Monday morning tap at "Challenges"
We can do this
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Dec 2021 07:06:30 +0000 (23:06 -0800)]
Sunday tap at "Challenges"
Why is this dumb exhaustive post taking forever? I'm such a bad writer
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Dec 2021 18:43:22 +0000 (10:43 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Dec 2021 03:40:12 +0000 (19:40 -0800)]
drafting reply to Scott on AGenP
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:04:17 +0000 (16:04 -0800)]
check in, incl. new attempt at explaining to Scott
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Dec 2021 05:00:54 +0000 (21:00 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Dec 2021 05:00:22 +0000 (21:00 -0800)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Dec 2021 19:28:30 +0000 (11:28 -0800)]
Wednesday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 7 Dec 2021 19:08:19 +0000 (11:08 -0800)]
Tuesday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Dec 2021 19:01:01 +0000 (11:01 -0800)]
Monday morning tap at "Challenges"
Last week's "write every morning" campaign didn't end up sticking past
Tuesday, but maybe it'll stick this week?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Dec 2021 23:00:57 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:03:53 +0000 (10:03 -0800)]
Tuesday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:40:19 +0000 (10:40 -0800)]
Monday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:33:26 +0000 (10:33 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Nov 2021 06:28:57 +0000 (22:28 -0800)]
ineffective Sunday tap at "Challenges"
I just was not effective today!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:15:07 +0000 (09:15 -0800)]
tap at "Challenges"
Managed to "get started" with this yesterday and a minute ago, but
let's clear off the staging area and actually have a solid writing day
today! No time to waste.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 Nov 2021 02:16:17 +0000 (18:16 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:17:04 +0000 (21:17 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Nov 2021 15:40:11 +0000 (07:40 -0800)]
Monday morning tap at "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Nov 2021 03:00:06 +0000 (19:00 -0800)]
tap at "Challenges"
I've been having trouble Doing Things lately. This is a pretty poor
output for having an entire Sunday to myself. Maybe I can ramp
up—write a little bit every day, until I finally finish this and "A
Hill of Validity", and then I can move on with my life and not carry
this psychic scars around all the time.
Maybe I'll get in another small commit later tonight?!—even if my
dream of a big Writing Day was a lie.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Nov 2021 16:02:19 +0000 (08:02 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:23:11 +0000 (12:23 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Oct 2021 23:38:29 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
check in (incl. rename finale notes file)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:59:05 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Oct 2021 04:31:44 +0000 (21:31 -0700)]
poke at "Challenges", "Never Smile" linkpost
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Oct 2021 23:48:25 +0000 (16:48 -0700)]
poke at "A Previous Life's War"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Oct 2021 23:33:41 +0000 (16:33 -0700)]
still reading the Gender Development text; and, some old evidence
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:30:03 +0000 (11:30 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 3 Oct 2021 02:01:24 +0000 (19:01 -0700)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Oct 2021 22:09:03 +0000 (15:09 -0700)]
Gender Development textbook notetaking
This is still a good textbook! Marginal notetaking progress is better
than slacking off entirely, but it's not what I'm supposed to be doing
with prime Saturday writing hours.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Oct 2021 21:43:40 +0000 (14:43 -0700)]
Closetspace—and how did I miss this one about Allison?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Oct 2021 15:16:48 +0000 (08:16 -0700)]
check in
Saturday! Need to get in a big writing day today!!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:36:39 +0000 (09:36 -0700)]
"Blood Is Thicker Than Water" linkpost
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:06:05 +0000 (22:06 -0700)]
schedule "I Don't Do Policy"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:50:45 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:02:18 +0000 (22:02 -0700)]
publish "There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Sep 2021 03:03:47 +0000 (20:03 -0700)]
xrossover fic tail speculation
I haven't been motivated to do anything today. Tomorrow needs to be a
big writing day—the last day of my vacation. If I want to make it
count, I should finish this up, get a lot of hacking into "Challenges"
and possibly the Facing Reality review, and schedule this and "I Don't
Do Policy."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:21:52 +0000 (17:21 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:38:50 +0000 (15:38 -0700)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:29:53 +0000 (13:29 -0700)]
drafting "Facing Reality" review coda
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:09:26 +0000 (13:09 -0700)]
pronoun reform check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Sep 2021 22:00:01 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
"Facing Reality" review coda: intelligence as natural phenomenon
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:42:35 +0000 (05:42 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:22:38 +0000 (15:22 -0700)]
"Facing Reality": first-order effects summary, and review-proper stinger
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Sep 2021 15:24:47 +0000 (08:24 -0700)]
drafting "Facing Reality" review and "Challenges"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:03:00 +0000 (14:03 -0700)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
+1000 words—OK!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:00:58 +0000 (14:00 -0700)]
drafting "Facing Reality" book review
Net 470 words—OK! And that's a minority of what was done today.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:15:06 +0000 (07:15 -0700)]
check in for clean staging area before writing day
My last full day in Cambridge—if I wasn't lying about this being a
writing vacation, I need to make a lot of progress today! No
distractions or excuses!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:02:43 +0000 (14:02 -0700)]
drafting "Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:50:57 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
poke at Closetspace/Lease Bound joint review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:49:47 +0000 (11:49 -0700)]
fill gap in "I Don't Do Policy" draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:41:40 +0000 (06:41 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:05:58 +0000 (13:05 -0700)]
drafting "Facing Reality" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:29:30 +0000 (15:29 -0700)]
poke at stuff
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Sep 2021 15:34:22 +0000 (08:34 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Sep 2021 02:37:35 +0000 (19:37 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Sep 2021 17:26:52 +0000 (10:26 -0700)]
drafting Lease Bound plot summary
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Sep 2021 05:10:23 +0000 (22:10 -0700)]
drafting joint Closetspace/Lease Bound review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Sep 2021 19:47:09 +0000 (12:47 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:36:15 +0000 (11:36 -0700)]
tap closet
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:59:13 +0000 (17:59 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:30:43 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
Closetspace summary/commentary
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:17:40 +0000 (14:17 -0700)]
check back in
I've been sad and lazy for a few months, but life goes on; I can't
pause time by being sad and lazy. Maybe today will be the start of
getting back into the practice of writing.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:29:01 +0000 (10:29 -0700)]
finish Closetspace readthrough
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Aug 2021 03:07:29 +0000 (20:07 -0700)]
check out
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Aug 2021 06:11:17 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
"Happy Meal"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Aug 2021 19:49:39 +0000 (12:49 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:13:48 +0000 (13:13 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 8 Jul 2021 19:23:37 +0000 (12:23 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Jul 2021 16:19:19 +0000 (09:19 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 29 Jun 2021 04:08:55 +0000 (21:08 -0700)]
two typos in the recent megapost
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:59:57 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
Monday morning drafting "Facing Reality" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:10:32 +0000 (23:10 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Jun 2021 05:27:21 +0000 (22:27 -0700)]
drafting "Facing Reality" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:19:12 +0000 (12:19 -0700)]
drafting "Facing Reality" review—something stirring
This is going to need a lot of editing/rewriting to hit the tone and
content I want: so far, I've been feeling frame-locked to Murray's
world of statistics (that Vassar and co. would not buy), and
remembering what it was like to be on the other side is stirring up
some passions that contain information that didn't make it into the
statistics—but I'm also not saying the statistics are fake! Everything
is multicausal!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Jun 2021 02:50:20 +0000 (19:50 -0700)]
drafting "Facing Reality" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:22:42 +0000 (13:22 -0700)]
Closetspace/Lease Bound summary notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Jun 2021 15:48:53 +0000 (08:48 -0700)]
"Human Diversity" individualism anchor
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Jun 2021 15:03:43 +0000 (08:03 -0700)]
check in (start of a glorious Saturday return to normalcy/productivity)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:19:11 +0000 (21:19 -0700)]
check in
I got distracted from this blog/project by a Dolphin War and was crazy
for a while. Clean the slate.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 9 Jun 2021 19:36:44 +0000 (12:36 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to Nate Soares"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:29:23 +0000 (13:29 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Jun 2021 19:14:30 +0000 (12:14 -0700)]
check in, incl. CAH notes (this textbook is gr9)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Jun 2021 02:02:35 +0000 (19:02 -0700)]
check in, including textbook notes and trilogy shoveling
The already-written content for "Blanchard's Dangerous Idea" and "Hill
of Validity" are such a mess that I want them in different files:
start the draft clean from the begining, and shovel in prewritten
content as it fits into the narrative.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Jun 2021 01:28:52 +0000 (18:28 -0700)]
drafting "Subspatial Distribution Overlap"
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