"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 4: "kind of obvious, really"

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@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ The sheer number of hours we invested in this operation is _nuts_: desperate all
 
 what about _my_ mental health?
 
-Men who wish they were women do not particularly resemble actual women? We just—don't? This seems kind of obvious, really?
 
-my friend thinks I'm naive to have expected such a community—she was recommending "What You Can't Say" in 2009—but in 2009, we did not expect that _whether or not I should cut my dick off_ would _become_ a politicized issue, which is new evidence about the wisdom of the original vision
+Telling the difference between fantasy and reality is kind of an important life skill
+
 
 but if my expectations (about the community) were wrong, that's a problem with my model; reality doesn't have to care
 
@@ -472,8 +472,6 @@ fame: arguing with a Discord server was low-impact compared to getting the leade
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CEGnJBHmkcwPTysb7/lonely-dissent
 
-Telling the difference between fantasy and reality is kind of an important life skill
-
 
 https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/does-age-bring-wisdom/
 
@@ -485,16 +483,8 @@ https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way#comment-W4TAp4LuW3Ev
 
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ctpkTaqTKbmm6uRgC/failed-utopia-4-2
-https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ctpkTaqTKbmm6uRgC/failed-utopia-4-2/comment/PhiGnX7qKzzgn2aKb
-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Py3uGnncqXuEfPtQp/interpersonal-entanglement
 
-The short story ["Failed Utopia #4-2"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ctpkTaqTKbmm6uRgC/failed-utopia-4-2) portrays an almost-aligned superintelligence constructing an utopia for humans—except that 
 
-because evolution didn't design women and men to be optimal partners for each other, and the AI is prohibited from editing people's minds, the happiness-maximizing solution ends up 
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-the AI splits up the human species by sex and gives women and men their own _separate_ utopias, complete with artificially-synthesized
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-[on my reading, it's an important part of the argument that _verthandi_ are a _separate thing_, not just synthesized women]
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions
 
@@ -512,3 +502,7 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions
 Arguing with a specific person's published words is important, because otherwise you can strawman
 
 [Am I the asshole?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/)
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+(I told people that my father was coming to pick me up at the end of my 72-hour (== 3 days) evaluation period, but that it wasn't fair that I couldn't rescue everyone.)
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+blegg commentary:  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode#aAgSDZ4ddHpzj9fNN