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-19 February, the kid reportedly said, "I'll put a piglet in my salad because I want to kill lots of animals." None of the grownups construed this as a reversal of the earlier vegetarianism claim, because none of the grownups took the earlier claim seriously.
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-1 March: "When i grow up i'm gonna eat pigs."
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-14 March: "I'm a pterodactyl dragon."
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-17 March: "I was a hospital before but then I went through a metamorphosis...now I'm a crocodile."
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-13 June: re "lesbian [...] seems actually just implementable in behavior without other resources" ... not even hormone replacement therapy? Frankly, I think this attitude is cruel (in its effects, however benevolent the intentions). Transitioning, or not-transitioning, is a serious life decision with wide-ranging social and medical implications. In order to help people make the right decision—whatever that turns out to be—I want people to have the most accurate information possible and the most precise concepts possible. Getting this stuff right—not just stopping at the first answer that sounds good to your Tumblr followers—is actually decision-relevant to me. In twelve years, it could very well be decision-relevant to Merlin.
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-"The problem is not social engineering! The problem is _incompetent_ social engineering! The problem is not experimenting on children! The problem is experimenting on children in the service of an ideological crusade rather than in the service of finding out what happens!" https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154963540980199 (Mike Liked it)
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-20 Apr: "she didn't name herself after a fictional character, she was very heavily railroaded into that"
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-reply: "I'm not sure she's old enough to understand the implications of naming yourself after a fictional character." (I didn't challenge, because I sensed I've already used up my latitude)
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-20 Apr: "Honestly this is super unsurprising in hindsight / She likes trucks and power tools and children's TV"
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-22 Apr: and she buried her face in her arms and was like "but I'm your son" in this pathetically squeaky voice. (I don't think she's updated to "daughter"?)
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-growth chart
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-to keep the proselytizer attached to the religion by training them on interactions with outsiders being unpleasant
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-https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/SWraogEDJ6gocpvwa/on-the-care-and-feeding-of-young-rationalists
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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SqNvmwDxRibLXjMZN/and-say-no-more-of-it
> Anything done with an ulterior motive has to be done with a pure heart.