"Dimorphism": incohate refinement of ending

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 Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, Star Trek, Julia Serano, two-type taxonomy
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-> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are."
+> I'm beginning to wonder if he's constructed an entire system of moral philosophy around the effects of the loyalty mod—a prospect that makes me distinctly uneasy. It would hardly be the first time a victim of mental illness has responded to their affliction that way—but it would certainly be the first time I've found myself in the vulnerable position of sharing the brain-damaged prophet's impairment, down to the last neuron.
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-> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan
+> —_Quarantine_ by Greg Egan
 
 Imagine my surprise to discover that, in the current year, my weird sexual obsession is suddenly at the center of [one of the _defining political issues of our time_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights).
 
@@ -240,3 +240,5 @@ Anne Lawrence described autogynephiles as ["men who love women and want to becom
 Normal straight men also have positive-valence thoughts about women when they're not immediately horny.
 
 * The lie will rot, maybe ppl will be honest after the convention has set in??
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+Robert Heinlein