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ITT: Social Justice #7
Confused about what an Intellectual Turing Test is? Click here! Please read, then vote at the end of the post. Feel free to speculate in the comment section about this person’s identity! What discourse norms do you tend to follow? Why? Do you think everyone else should follow them, and why? Discourse isn’t that hard. Open your eyes and don’t be an asshole. Does anybody disagree with that in…
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ITT: Social Justice #6
Confused about what an Intellectual Turing Test is? Click here! Please read, then vote at the end of the post. Feel free to speculate in the comment section about this person’s identity! 1. What discourse norms do you tend to follow? Why? Do you think everyone else should follow them, and why? I believe that discourse can only be productive when the parties share a certain baseline knowledge and…
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ITT: Social Justice #5
Confused about what an Intellectual Turing Test is? Click here! Please read, then vote at the end of the post. Feel free to speculate in the comment section about this person’s identity! 1. What discourse norms do you tend to follow? Why? Do you think everyone else should follow them, and why? If I am entering a new space, I respect the norms of those that have created that space. However, if…
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ITT: Social Justice #4
Confused about what an Intellectual Turing Test is? Click here! Please read, then vote at the end of the post. Feel free to speculate in the comment section about this person’s identity! 1. What discourse norms do you tend to follow? Why? Do you think everyone else should follow them, and why? Most of my discourse norms are not, I think, specific to the pro-SJ side of things? I mean, “on the…
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ITT: Social Justice #3
Confused about what an Intellectual Turing Test is? Click here! Please read, then vote at the end of the post. Feel free to speculate in the comment section about this person’s identity! NOTE: People have speculated that both of the previous posts were written by Scott Alexander. Sadly, Scott is not participating in the Intellectual Turing Test, and thus no posts are written by him. 1. What…
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ITT: Social Justice
Confused about what an Intellectual Turing Test is? Click here! Please read, then vote at the end of the post. Feel free to speculate in the comment section about this person’s identity! 1. What discourse norms do you tend to follow? Why? Do you think everyone else should follow them, and why? Frankly, I think a lot of good discourse is just not being an asshole. Most people, if told they’re…
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ITT: Social Justice
It’s our first submission to the Intellectual Turing Test! (Confused about what an Intellectual Turing Test is? Click here!) Please read, then vote at the end of the post. Feel free to speculate in the comment section about this person’s identity! 1. What discourse norms do you tend to follow? Why? Do you think everyone else should follow them, and why? I tend to mostly shut up and let others…
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Some Questions for FTMs, Answered
Some Questions for FTMs, Answered
So I was recently reading this blog post. I am not, technically speaking, an FTM, because I am not heading in a manward direction, but if there’s one thing we know about my blog it’s that I love answering questions, so I am guessing I am in the intended group anyway Please explain in your own words what a “man” is and what a “woman” is. Many people distinguish between “sex” and “gender”. Sex is…
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We Bring Good Things To Life, chapter one.
In Which I Accidentally Write A Didactic Fanfic About AI Risk Which Is Particularly Weird Because I Don’t Even Care About AI Risk.
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Book Post for September
Stumbling on Happiness: Daniel Gilbert’s writing style is super-fun; I recommend reading Stumbling on Happiness if you like Slate Star Codex’s characteristic snark, because there’s a lot of it here. Neurotypical people are very strange. I spent a large portion of this book going “wait, when most people experience something really really bad, they come up with reasons why it wasn’t so bad after…