zackmdavis
2mo ago
In "Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles" (Less Wrong mirrorpost), the fourth installment of my memoir telling the Whole Dumb Story of how I wasted the last eight years of my life trying to convince the so-called "rationalist" community that you can't redefine concepts in order to make people happy, I explain how Eliezer Yudkowsky has not been consistently candid in his communications with his followers, hindering their ability to exercise their responsibilities.
Previously: pt. 1 (Less Wrong mirrorpost), pt. 2 (Less Wrong mirrorpost, The Motte discussion), pt. 3 (Less Wrong mirrorpost)
zackmdavis
9mo ago
I support people transitioning if it makes their life better, but I'm pretty skeptical of subtle intersex conditions whose main symptom is a mysterious desire to be the other sex. I'd expect actual brain-intersex stuff to mostly look like HSTS: markedly sex-atypical behavior that's visible to other people and causes social problems. To the extent that the two-type taxonomy is wrong, I expect social factors to be the main third cause.
zackmdavis
9mo ago
Hello Motte world! Some of you may remember me as /u/M_T_Saotome-Westlake on the Reddit incarnation. (I've since dropped the pseudonym which I was using for my political writing.)
I recently published the first two parts of my memoir telling the Whole Dumb Story of my conflict with the so-called "rationalist" community about (at first) the etiology of gender dysphoria in males and (later, much less excusably) the philosophy of language regarding categorization, which I would like to share with you today:
Thanks. I had made a habit of posting my rationality writing as Less Wrong exclusives (when I was still holding out more hope for the site than I am now). You're right; I should upgrade my personal blog (which is still running WordPress) and have that be the canonical version, but it feels thematically appropriate to wait to change the habit until after I finish my memoir sequence.
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