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@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ What I can say is that _whatever_ the right thing to do is, we stand a better ch
 
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-Alexander ends his post by citing, as a charming example of the power of kindness, the case of Joshua Norton, a man who proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, whose claims to power were widely humored by local citizens.
+Alexander ends his post by citing, as a charming example of the power of kindness the case of [Joshua Norton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton), a man who proclaimed himself Emperor Norton I of the United States and Protector of Mexico, whose claims to power were widely humored by local citizens.
 
 Norton's story is certainly _entertaining to read about_ a hundred and forty years after the fact. But before endorsing it as a model of humane behavior, I think it's worth dwelling on what it would be like to live through, not just read about as a historical curiosity.
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ What if one of your friends had a psychotic break and decided that they were Emp
 
 What if it were _you_?
 
-It was me, once. I had a couple [psychotic](/2017/Mar/fresh-princess/) [episodes](/2017/Jun/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words/) last year, including some delusions of grandeur. At various points, I thought that I had been appointed Gender Czar of this equivalence class of instances of Earth across the multiverse, that I was objectively one of the seven most important people in the world with a key role to play in the [intelligence explosion](TODO: linky), 
+It was me, once. I had a couple [psychotic](/2017/Mar/fresh-princess/) [episodes](/2017/Jun/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words/) last year, including some delusions of grandeur. At various points, I thought that I had been appointed Gender Czar of this equivalence class of instances of Earth across the multiverse, that I was objectively one of the seven most important people in the world with a key role to play in the [intelligence explosion](https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Intelligence_explosion).
 
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@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ He buries his head in his arms and begins to cry. He emits long, shuddering sobs
 
 You wait many minutes for him to calm down.
 
-"It's not wrong, is it?" he eventually says. "To _want_ to rule, to _want_ to be Emperor?"
+"It's not wrong, is it?" he eventually says. "To want to rule, to _want_ to be Emperor?"
 
 "No," you say, "it's not wrong to want it."