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5 years ago"I Tell Myself" morning drafting session: my world, arguments, fraud
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Dec 2019 16:54:39 +0000 (08:54 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" morning drafting session: my world, arguments, fraud

I think I'll do better at my dayjob today having the sense that I'm
making progress here!

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5 years agodrafting "I Tell Myself": modus ponens, what I think is going on
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Dec 2019 07:40:18 +0000 (23:40 -0800)]
drafting "I Tell Myself": modus ponens, what I think is going on

5 years agoragequit motivations
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 3 Dec 2019 03:49:12 +0000 (19:49 -0800)]
ragequit motivations

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5 years agopaste "My Price for Joining" into the main thread
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Dec 2019 00:38:40 +0000 (16:38 -0800)]
paste "My Price for Joining" into the main thread

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 4
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Dec 2019 00:09:49 +0000 (16:09 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 4

5 years agoready?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 22:52:55 +0000 (14:52 -0800)]
ready?

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 3
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 22:13:46 +0000 (14:13 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 3

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 21:12:15 +0000 (13:12 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 2

5 years agoI want to see me be brave
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 20:41:22 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
I want to see me be brave

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 17:20:16 +0000 (09:20 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" 1 December drafting session 1

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5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Thursday morning drafting session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:43:03 +0000 (08:43 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Thursday morning drafting session 2

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Thursday morning drafting session 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:01:03 +0000 (08:01 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Thursday morning drafting session 1

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Wednesday morning drafting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:01:12 +0000 (10:01 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Wednesday morning drafting

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" note scraps from last night
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:57:11 +0000 (08:57 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" note scraps from last night

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Monday morning drafting before dayjob
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:33:59 +0000 (09:33 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Monday morning drafting before dayjob

I'll be a bit late, but I could argue that it's actually worth it from
my employer's perspective that I come in to work ready to focus rather
than being in pain because I haven't written anything.

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5 years agomerge branch 'i_tell-17_Nov'
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merge branch 'i_tell-17_Nov'

5 years agomove "Failed Utopia #4-2" commentary into draft proper; tag spree
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:50:03 +0000 (22:50 -0800)]
move "Failed Utopia #4-2" commentary into draft proper; tag spree

5 years agonotes, tidying, call the shot for new sections
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 02:16:26 +0000 (18:16 -0800)]
notes, tidying, call the shot for new sections

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 5: on fame
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 01:36:58 +0000 (17:36 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 5: on fame

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 4: "kind of obvious, really"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:54:11 +0000 (16:54 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 4: "kind of obvious, really"

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 3: on the verthandi
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:31:09 +0000 (15:31 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 3: on the verthandi

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I got distracted by the internet and local news, but writing is really
important so I can finally be at peace!

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:11:41 +0000 (10:11 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 2

5 years ago"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 1
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:41:03 +0000 (09:41 -0800)]
"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 1

I really want to get this done within a month so that I can move on
with my life! Suppose I write every day (including fanatically on free
days like this) and have a complete draft by 15 December. Then I can
offer pre-publication right-of-reply to key persons and publish on 4
January?

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tomorrow, perhaps, I will be brave enough to write for real

or else

I will never stop being in pain

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5 years agosmall commit
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Nov 2019 21:47:36 +0000 (13:47 -0800)]
small commit

5 years agotidy notes a bit?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Nov 2019 17:03:13 +0000 (09:03 -0800)]
tidy notes a bit?

5 years agoI am in so much psychological pain all the time
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Nov 2019 07:22:20 +0000 (23:22 -0800)]
I am in so much psychological pain all the time

and it's never going to stop until I write it down

5 years agopoking at "I Tell Myself" notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:05:02 +0000 (09:05 -0800)]
poking at "I Tell Myself" notes

I need to work on this every day until it's finished, even if it
hurts, even if it makes me late for my dayjob

5 years agobetter outlining technique
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:48:10 +0000 (08:48 -0800)]
better outlining technique

Putting these bracketed stubs will make it easier for me to zero in on
filling them in without getting lost or being constrained to write
linearly

5 years agoI ineffectually tell myself to write
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 4 Nov 2019 16:04:53 +0000 (08:04 -0800)]
I ineffectually tell myself to write

I really need to step it up into actually-writing every day in
November so that I can have closure

5 years agoI tell myself to write
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 3 Nov 2019 07:34:26 +0000 (00:34 -0700)]
I tell myself to write

If I can manage to write something every day in November, then I can
finish telling the Whole Dumb Story and move on with my life

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5 years agoat least poking at "'I Tell Myself' ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:09:48 +0000 (23:09 -0700)]
at least poking at "'I Tell Myself' ..."

The pain won't go away until you write about it.

5 years ago"game theory of stigmatization" rough draft from SEXNET
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:26:02 +0000 (14:26 -0700)]
"game theory of stigmatization" rough draft from SEXNET

I just sent this as a message to SEXNET (in a thread about Tail's
complaint against /r/itsafetish:
ttps://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/its-a-hate-sub/), but it
could be cleaned up into a proper blog post.

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This has not been as good of a writing day as Sunday is meant to be.

5 years agodrafting "On the Argumentative Form ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:05:10 +0000 (20:05 -0700)]
drafting "On the Argumentative Form ..."

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5 years agodrafting "'I Tell Myself ...'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 06:06:17 +0000 (23:06 -0700)]
drafting "'I Tell Myself ...'"

I might be getting past the special block. (Writing is still hard, but
I might be to the point of it just being ordinary-hard, rather than
special-heartbreak hard.)

5 years agobackport "categorization" tag
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:38:08 +0000 (20:38 -0700)]
backport "categorization" tag

5 years agoZinnia Jones went offline
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:33:04 +0000 (20:33 -0700)]
Zinnia Jones went offline

It's tempting to say something snide here like, "And good riddance!"
but maybe that's too mean even for a commit message that almost no one
is actually going to read. (Who reads the commit messages for a
blog!?) It's a tragedy for the commons when someone's site goes down
(https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs)!

5 years agofinish and publish "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:32:03 +0000 (20:32 -0700)]
finish and publish "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"

5 years agostarting to get unblocked on grief blogging?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Oct 2019 17:57:11 +0000 (10:57 -0700)]
starting to get unblocked on grief blogging?

I managed to write a little bit yesterday, despite mostly wallowing in
distraction

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5 years agodrafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
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drafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"

5 years agobriefly drafting "Schelling Point" in the morning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Oct 2019 15:28:59 +0000 (08:28 -0700)]
briefly drafting "Schelling Point" in the morning

5 years agonibble
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nibble

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5 years agodrafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"
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drafting "Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"

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5 years agofinished (?) draft of "... on Fully Consensual Gender"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Sep 2019 06:01:38 +0000 (23:01 -0700)]
finished (?) draft of "... on Fully Consensual Gender"

Took a while to push this one up to the finish line! (Not over it yet;
there might be some strategic scheduling decisions vis-à-vis other
posts.)

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5 years agotech: don't cache HTML
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Sep 2019 02:03:22 +0000 (19:03 -0700)]
tech: don't cache HTML

Thanks to
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/
how-to-implement-browser-caching-with-nginx-s-header-module-on-centos-7
for teaching.

5 years ago"Terminology Proposal: 'Developmental Sex'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:30:29 +0000 (18:30 -0700)]
"Terminology Proposal: 'Developmental Sex'"

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5 years agoadd footnote crediting Tail for bugfix
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:08:17 +0000 (20:08 -0700)]
add footnote crediting Tail for bugfix

5 years agofix sign error in "Does General Intelligence ...?" code
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:00:38 +0000 (20:00 -0700)]
fix sign error in "Does General Intelligence ...?" code

Thanks to Tailcalled for catching this—it didn't materially affect the
results (up to random noise) because I'm comparing distributions
centered at 1 with others centered at zero (and anything minus zero is
the thing), but geez, this was embarrassing!

5 years agoI tell myself to let the story end
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:44:57 +0000 (22:44 -0700)]
I tell myself to let the story end

5 years agodrafting "I Tell Myself ...", sort of
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:10:41 +0000 (08:10 -0700)]
drafting "I Tell Myself ...", sort of

I spent most of yesterday in cowardice and pain and hiding, but I
might have done a very small amount of writing (though I think most of
this diff is just moving quotes into the text file from the notes
file?)

5 years ago"I Tell Myself ..." full slug filename
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"I Tell Myself ..." full slug filename

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5 years agoslight blogroll maintenance
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:27:37 +0000 (22:27 -0700)]
slight blogroll maintenance

A reader pointed out that Social Justice Wizard's blog had gone dark
(and he was never that cool, anyway).

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5 years agocopying in some notes from old conversation with "Wilhelm"
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copying in some notes from old conversation with "Wilhelm"

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(And who can say but that I'll actually get a lot done tomorrow?)

5 years agoactually, move the Jensen footnote location
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 06:00:53 +0000 (23:00 -0700)]
actually, move the Jensen footnote location

(It's also relevant for lending plausibility to the "sex differences
in special factor" idea.)

5 years agoCSS workaround for Pygments bug (Python 3 can too lex Unicode variables)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 05:49:17 +0000 (22:49 -0700)]
CSS workaround for Pygments bug (Python 3 can too lex Unicode variables)

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5 years agopublish "Does General Intelligence ...?"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 05:48:22 +0000 (22:48 -0700)]
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5 years agodraft: "Does General Intelligence Deflate ...?"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Aug 2019 16:55:29 +0000 (09:55 -0700)]
draft: "Does General Intelligence Deflate ...?"

I sent this as a message to SEXNET (maybe someone—maybe even del
Guidice himself—will have comments?), but it might also make a good
blog post later.

5 years agofinish and schedule "A Love ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:07:08 +0000 (01:07 -0700)]
finish and schedule "A Love ..."

5 years ago"psychological" → "personality"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 21 Aug 2019 05:56:05 +0000 (22:56 -0700)]
"psychological" → "personality"

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5 years agopublish "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:58:47 +0000 (23:58 -0700)]
publish "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."

5 years agodrafting "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:49:21 +0000 (23:49 -0700)]
drafting "The Social Construction of Reality and ..."

5 years agodrafting "A Love ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:12:56 +0000 (21:12 -0700)]
drafting "A Love ..."

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5 years agodrafting "The Social Construction of Reality ..."
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drafting "The Social Construction of Reality ..."

5 years agoTwitter suicide cache
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