"I Tell Myself" Sunday drafting session 1
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@@ -481,14 +481,18 @@ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/does-age-bring-wisdom/
 
 
 https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way#comment-W4TAp4LuW3Ev6QWSF
-> I am skeptical that either sex can ever really model and predict the other’s deep internal life, short of computer-assisted telepathy. These are different brain designs we’re talking about here.
+> I am skeptical that either sex can ever really model and predict the other's deep internal life, short of computer-assisted telepathy. These are different brain designs we're talking about here.
 
 
 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
 
-"Failed Utopia #4-2" portrays 
+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 
+
+the AI splits up the human species by sex and gives women and men their own _separate_ utopias, complete with artificially-synthesized
 
 [on my reading, it's an important part of the argument that _verthandi_ are a _separate thing_, not just synthesized women]
 
@@ -505,3 +509,6 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions
 >
 > Zachary Michael Davis
 
+Arguing with a specific person's published words is important, because otherwise you can strawman
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+[Am I the asshole?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/)