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@@ -122,8 +122,6 @@ I'm trying to _get the theory right_. My main victory condition is getting the t
 
 It worked once, right?
 
-(Picture me playing Hermione Granger in a post-Singularity [holonovel](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holo-novel_program) adaptation of _Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ (Emma Watson having charged me [the standard licensing fee](/2019/Dec/comp/) to use a copy of her body for the occasion): "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!")
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 > An extreme case in point of "handwringing about the Overton Window in fact constituted the Overton Window's implementation"
 OK, now apply that to your Kolomogorov cowardice
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1373004525481598978
@@ -1112,3 +1110,8 @@ where body fat is an advantage.
 It really is an apples-to-oranges comparison, rather than "two populations of apples with different mean weight".
 
 For example, the _function_ of sex-segrated bathrooms is to _protect females from males_, where "females" and "males" are natural clusters in configuration space that it makes sense to want words to refer to.
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+all I actually want out of a post-Singularity utopia is the year 2007 except that I personally have shapeshifting powers
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+The McGongall turning into a cat parody may actually be worth fitting in—McCongall turning into a cat broke Harry's entire worldview. Similarly, the "pretend to turn into a cat, and everyone just buys it" maneuver broke my religion
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