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 In particular, in ["Changing Emotions"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions) (and its precursor in a [2004 Extropians mailing list post](https://archive.is/En6qW)), Yudkowsky explains that "changing sex" is vastly easier said than done—
 
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 [[[ TODO summarize the Whole Dumb Story (does there need to be a separate post? I'm still not sure)
 
 [TODO: But that was all about me—I assumed "trans" was a different thing. My first clue that I might not be living in that world came from—Eliezer Yudkowsky, with the "at least 20% of the ones with penises are actually women" thing]
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 I joined the "Eliezerfic" server in spite of my enmity, and JoshTriplett is in there (contrary to my gut instinct that Rust peeps hate my rationalist peeps)
 
-Tweet about "unvirtuous to just believe me"—well, YES
+> "too many people think it's unvirtuous to shut up and listen to [him]"
+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1509944888376188929
 
 The cowardice is remarkable, coming from someone who otherwise
 
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 https://postchimpblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/alexs-guide-to-transitioning/
 
 The LW community is a bubble/machine that made me who I am (it doesn't infringe on my independence more than school, but it's still shaping force in the way that going to University or Google shapes people)
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j9Q8bRmwCgXRYAgcJ/miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity-strategy
+> If those people went around lying to others and paternalistically deceiving them—well, mostly, I don't think they'll have really been the types to live inside reality themselves.  But even imagining the contrary, good luck suddenly unwinding all those deceptions and getting other people to live inside reality with you, to coordinate on whatever suddenly needs to be done when hope appears, after you drove them outside reality before that point.  Why should they believe anything you say?
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+the Extropians post _explicitly_ says "may be a common sexual fantasy"
+> So spending a week as a member of the opposite sex may be a common sexual fantasy, but I wouldn't count on being able to do this six seconds after  the Singularity.  I would not be surprised to find that it took three  subjective centuries before anyone had grown far enough to attempt a gender switch.