"I Tell" check in

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 three worlds collide no such thing as love
 
 I would have hoped you'd be proud of me, as your (mass correspondence-course) student
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+ People who spend their entire lives on the receiving end of the calm voice of [authority-backed-by-implied-violence](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/29/reflections-from-the-halfway-point/) might be justified in thinking that Slate Star mistake-theoretic ideals like "reason" and "debate" are for suckers: that's what their distribution of training data actually looks like!
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/dy7gkv/what_happened_to_me_and_why_i_think_women_need/

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+As an illustration of how the hope for radical human enhancement is [fraught with technical difficulties](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQkELCGiGQwvrrp3L/growing-up-is-hard), ["Changing Emotions"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions) sketches a picture of just how difficult an actual male-to-female sex change would be.
 
-["Changing Emotions"]
+It would be hard to overstate how much of an impact that post had on me. 
 
 http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2004-September/008924.html
 [it's hard to overstate the impact this one post had on me (I've already linked it 8 times on this blog)]