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4 years agoHuman Diversity review drafting (Thursday morning): appeal of the slate
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:56:06 +0000 (09:56 -0700)]
Human Diversity review drafting (Thursday morning): appeal of the slate

4 years agopoking at Human Diversity review draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:57:01 +0000 (23:57 -0700)]
poking at Human Diversity review draft

4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Wednesday morning)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:01:52 +0000 (11:01 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Wednesday morning)

4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Tuesday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:33:42 +0000 (23:33 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Tuesday)

4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Monday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:22:14 +0000 (10:22 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Monday)

4 years agodrafting Human Diversity review (Sunday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:09:42 +0000 (09:09 -0700)]
drafting Human Diversity review (Sunday)

4 years agodraft speculative pitch of Human Diversity review to Less Wrong
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:09:04 +0000 (09:09 -0700)]
draft speculative pitch of Human Diversity review to Less Wrong

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: outline the hazardous/irrelevant second part
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Mar 2020 22:58:08 +0000 (15:58 -0700)]
Human Diversity review: outline the hazardous/irrelevant second part

I don't think my draft is hitting points in the right order (and this
is worth getting right), so tried I sketching out some bullet points
to keep me on track.

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review drafting Thursday "lunch": inference
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Mar 2020 20:54:19 +0000 (12:54 -0800)]
Human Diversity review drafting Thursday "lunch": inference

4 years agoThursday morning pre-dayjob Human Diversity review drafting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Mar 2020 16:59:29 +0000 (08:59 -0800)]
Thursday morning pre-dayjob Human Diversity review drafting

4 years agoHuman Diversity drafting and notes-shovel
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Mar 2020 04:41:05 +0000 (20:41 -0800)]
Human Diversity drafting and notes-shovel

4 years agoHuman Diversity pre-dayjob Tuesday review drafting: positioning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:07:44 +0000 (09:07 -0800)]
Human Diversity pre-dayjob Tuesday review drafting: positioning

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review Monday pre-dayjob drafting: topology is crazy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Mar 2020 17:01:47 +0000 (09:01 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Monday pre-dayjob drafting: topology is crazy

Hopefully I'll be able to write more today! But I need to do some
dayjob work first!

4 years agoHuman Diversity review drafting: algebraic topology
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Mar 2020 05:40:26 +0000 (21:40 -0800)]
Human Diversity review drafting: algebraic topology

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4 years agoHuman Diversity after-Leap Day drafting session 1: aspirations
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Mar 2020 22:29:04 +0000 (14:29 -0800)]
Human Diversity after-Leap Day drafting session 1: aspirations

4 years agopublish "If in Some Smothering Dreams" and "Cloud Vision"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:04:01 +0000 (00:04 -0800)]
publish "If in Some Smothering Dreams" and "Cloud Vision"

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4 years ago2020 year in copyright footer
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2020 year in copyright footer

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review—Part III: ACE model, polygenic scores
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Feb 2020 07:02:12 +0000 (23:02 -0800)]
Human Diversity review—Part III: ACE model, polygenic scores

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4 years agosplit Sequencing backstory off from "I Tell Myself ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Feb 2020 01:14:30 +0000 (17:14 -0800)]
split Sequencing backstory off from "I Tell Myself ..."

The part that's just about how classic OB/LW formed my views will be a
lot easier to finish, and doesn't need pseudonyms (because there's no
way to credibly construe it as an attack, whereas the
institutional-betrayal narrative could be), so it can be its own post.

Instead of "Great Teacher"/"Popular Author" as the pseudonyms for
Yudkowsky/Alexander (respectively), I've decided I like "Robert
Stadler"/"Arthur Blair". If you're interested enough to be reading the
commit messages (!?) of my blog, you can probably figure out the
references.

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: altitude, introducing the ACE model
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:34:31 +0000 (15:34 -0800)]
Human Diversity review: altitude, introducing the ACE model

4 years agoHuman Diversity review: drop TODO flags, population diff meanings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:55:23 +0000 (14:55 -0800)]
Human Diversity review: drop TODO flags, population diff meanings

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4 years agostarting to draft "Cloud Vision"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Feb 2020 21:02:00 +0000 (13:02 -0800)]
starting to draft "Cloud Vision"

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4 years agoHuman Diversity review Wed. morning drafting: residual differences
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:30:23 +0000 (08:30 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Wed. morning drafting: residual differences

4 years agoHuman Diversity Presidential session 5: cross-cultural gap
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:42:26 +0000 (20:42 -0800)]
Human Diversity Presidential session 5: cross-cultural gap

4 years agoHuman Diversity Presidential session 4: Holland, Buckner
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:15:08 +0000 (20:15 -0800)]
Human Diversity Presidential session 4: Holland, Buckner

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Presidential sprint session 3: univariate fallacy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 02:39:01 +0000 (18:39 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Presidential sprint session 3: univariate fallacy

Is it bad to treat a topic in passing when you still want to cover it
in more depth in a future post? (I wanted to work in the mathematics
of the "typical set" into this graf, but I didn't see how to make it
fit.) Maybe it's good.

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Presidential sprint session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 01:06:25 +0000 (17:06 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Presidential sprint session 2

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Presidential sprint session 1: appendices
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:28:39 +0000 (16:28 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Presidential sprint session 1: appendices

4 years agoHuman Diversity backreading, note complication
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:42:32 +0000 (13:42 -0800)]
Human Diversity backreading, note complication

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4 years agoHuman Diversity sprint session 3: standing variation and introgression
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:28:18 +0000 (19:28 -0800)]
Human Diversity sprint session 3: standing variation and introgression

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Sunday night sprint session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:44:56 +0000 (18:44 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Sunday night sprint session 2

4 years agoHuman Diversity review Sunday night sprint session 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:24:06 +0000 (18:24 -0800)]
Human Diversity review Sunday night sprint session 1

4 years agosort-of, kind-of working on Human Diversity review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:00:54 +0000 (18:00 -0800)]
sort-of, kind-of working on Human Diversity review

Just because tomorrow is Presidents' Day is no excuse to slack off! I
want to finish this review! For Science! For the future!

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4 years agodrafting Human Diversity book review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:57:23 +0000 (22:57 -0800)]
drafting Human Diversity book review

4 years ago"If in Some Smothering Dreams"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:57:06 +0000 (22:57 -0800)]
"If in Some Smothering Dreams"

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4 years agonotes after a phone conversation
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:15:15 +0000 (20:15 -0800)]
notes after a phone conversation

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4 years agocopy edits and next steps
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:52:01 +0000 (19:52 -0800)]
copy edits and next steps

I think I got the plural "equilibria" right the first time, and ispell
"fixed" it

4 years agopublish "Origins of Unfairness" review and scrap notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:19:58 +0000 (22:19 -0800)]
publish "Origins of Unfairness" review and scrap notes

4 years agofinish drafting "Origins of Unfairness" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:17:33 +0000 (22:17 -0800)]
finish drafting "Origins of Unfairness" review

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4 years agodrafting "Origins of Unfairness" review
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drafting "Origins of Unfairness" review

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4 years agocompiling notes for "Origins of Unfairness" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Jan 2020 07:01:44 +0000 (23:01 -0800)]
compiling notes for "Origins of Unfairness" review

4 years ago"I Tell" check in
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4 years agoMarkdown footnote styling!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:05:49 +0000 (23:05 -0800)]
Markdown footnote styling!

To think that I checked in that special footnotes plugin (2980fe3c
"not thinking in nested parentheticals vs. installing a footnote
plugin", 19 Feb 2018), when it turns out that footnote capability was
part of Markdown itself all along!

4 years ago"I Tell": breakup song choice footnote
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:03:50 +0000 (23:03 -0800)]
"I Tell": breakup song choice footnote

4 years ago"Terrorist Memeplexes" personal section anchor
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Jan 2020 07:44:46 +0000 (23:44 -0800)]
"Terrorist Memeplexes" personal section anchor

4 years agotidy section placeholder
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 2 Jan 2020 07:25:53 +0000 (23:25 -0800)]
tidy section placeholder

4 years agocheck in; merge sections into "I Tell Myself" draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 2 Jan 2020 04:36:02 +0000 (20:36 -0800)]
check in; merge sections into "I Tell Myself" draft

I'm now feeling much more optimistic about not having to finish this
memoir!

4 years agofix "Variable Question Fallacies" link
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:21:48 +0000 (09:21 -0800)]
fix "Variable Question Fallacies" link

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4 years agotweaks
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Dec 2019 06:30:56 +0000 (22:30 -0800)]
tweaks

4 years ago"I Tell Myself" 12 December drafting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Dec 2019 05:47:12 +0000 (21:47 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 12 December drafting

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4 years agomerge branch 'i_tell-11_Dec'
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:18:34 +0000 (23:18 -0800)]
merge branch 'i_tell-11_Dec'

4 years ago"Quillette" with two 't's
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:24:12 +0000 (20:24 -0800)]
"Quillette" with two 't's

4 years agosimulacra footnote for "Fully Consensual Gender"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:23:35 +0000 (20:23 -0800)]
simulacra footnote for "Fully Consensual Gender"

4 years ago"I Tell Myself" 11 December drafting session 2: Catholic analogy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:02:46 +0000 (20:02 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 11 December drafting session 2: Catholic analogy

I might want to grab a friend-of-a-friend as a Catholicism consultant
later; I don't know if "astray from the path of God", "flawed mortal
man" is actually how they'd say it, or if all my knowledge comes from
Protestant stereotypes.

4 years ago"I Tell Myself" 11 December drafting session 1: if we had the tech
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Dec 2019 23:15:42 +0000 (15:15 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 11 December drafting session 1: if we had the tech

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4 years ago"On the Argumentative Form" was supposed to go on the 13th
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:18:24 +0000 (10:18 -0800)]
"On the Argumentative Form" was supposed to go on the 13th

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4 years agoenqueue eight posts from tonight to 22 December
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:58:11 +0000 (09:58 -0800)]
enqueue eight posts from tonight to 22 December

4 years agoprep "I Want to Be the One"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:39:42 +0000 (08:39 -0800)]
prep "I Want to Be the One"

These lyrics were already posted on my real-name blog, but the
conjunction of already having a tradition of sheet music on this blog,
and the "special type of girl" line, makes me want to post it here.

I miss my friend who did the sheet music for me, but he's gone from
me.

4 years agodrafting smallposts
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:27:49 +0000 (08:27 -0800)]
drafting smallposts

4 years agodrafting "More Schelling"; ambitions to post
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Dec 2019 16:58:12 +0000 (08:58 -0800)]
drafting "More Schelling"; ambitions to post

4 years agofinish up "On the Argumentative Form ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Dec 2019 16:57:39 +0000 (08:57 -0800)]
finish up "On the Argumentative Form ..."

4 years agofinish up "Promises I Can Keep"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Dec 2019 16:57:26 +0000 (08:57 -0800)]
finish up "Promises I Can Keep"

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4 years agointrospective note from chatting with A.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 23:50:12 +0000 (15:50 -0800)]
introspective note from chatting with A.

4 years agodraft "Political Science Epigrams"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 23:19:08 +0000 (15:19 -0800)]
draft "Political Science Epigrams"

4 years agomerge branch 'i_tell-7-8_Dec'
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 23:17:32 +0000 (15:17 -0800)]
merge branch 'i_tell-7-8_Dec'

Not doing so hot this Sunday 8th of December

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4 years ago"I Tell Myself": the canary in the discourse algorithm
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 20:10:09 +0000 (12:10 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself": the canary in the discourse algorithm

4 years ago"I Tell Myself": shoveling text between files, joins to the main thread
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 05:13:30 +0000 (21:13 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself": shoveling text between files, joins to the main thread

4 years ago"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 5: Serano doubt, psych unity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 04:23:41 +0000 (20:23 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 5: Serano doubt, psych unity

4 years ago"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 4: Serano/Reddit evidence
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 02:57:39 +0000 (18:57 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 4: Serano/Reddit evidence

4 years ago"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 3: unscientific
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 01:45:28 +0000 (17:45 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 3: unscientific

4 years agoone more variant of the song
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 7 Dec 2019 22:48:56 +0000 (14:48 -0800)]
one more variant of the song

4 years ago"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 2: fucking with the model
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 7 Dec 2019 17:20:47 +0000 (09:20 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 2: fucking with the model

4 years ago"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 1: blegg networks
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 7 Dec 2019 16:52:04 +0000 (08:52 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 7 December drafting session 1: blegg networks

4 years agolast Friday night
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 7 Dec 2019 15:31:33 +0000 (07:31 -0800)]
last Friday night

4 years agopoke at stuff in the morning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 6 Dec 2019 16:33:10 +0000 (08:33 -0800)]
poke at stuff in the morning

How deadly is the lack of a commit yesterday? Can we hope that it was
an anomaly—that the Schelling–Ainslie timeless-decision-theoretic
model of procrastination is wrong?

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" morning drafting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 4 Dec 2019 17:10:44 +0000 (09:10 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" morning drafting

Disappointing that I didn't write last night, and this morning hasn't
been so hot, either—but I can at least go to my dayjob and not feel
subhuman.

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