From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 16:57:26 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: finish up "Promises I Can Keep"
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finish up "Promises I Can Keep"
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 "I think if you show any indications of being an egg, you _need_ to marry someone who's OK with you eventually transitioning. Not because you necessarily _will_ want to transition, but because it's likely enough that you need to plan for it."
 
-"I probably don't actually _disagree_. Keeping promises is very important. What a betrayal it would be—to take someone to have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health—
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-/2017/Dec/lesser-known-demand-curves/
-/2017/Oct/select/
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-But in the spirit of [Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-debates-should-not-appear-one-sided), I would like to register a note of sadness that we're effectively thereby saying 'eggs don't deserve love.'"
+"I probably don't actually _disagree_. Keeping promises is very important. What a betrayal it would be—to take someone to have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health—only to [throw it all away when the cost curve moves](/2017/Dec/lesser-known-demand-curves/)? No. But in the spirit of [policy debates not appearing one-sided](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-debates-should-not-appear-one-sided), I would like to register a note of sadness that we're effectively thereby saying 'eggs don't deserve love.'"
 
 "Eggs can have love, they just add a constraint."
 
-"I don't think you understand the seriousness of _just_ adding a constraint.
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-"Constraint: must own unicorn."
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-In [4]: 7 * 10**9 / (60 * 60 * 24 * 365)
-Out[4]: 221.9685438863521
+"I don't think you understand [the seriousness of 'just' adding a constraint](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xqJqZgowy5pPxNNst/inconvenience-is-qualitatively-bad) to a search problem that is [already very constrained](/2017/Oct/select/). Constraint: must own unicorn."