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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.
 
 
 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_?
 
 
 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.
 
 
 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."
 
 
 "No," you say, "it's not wrong to want it."