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@@ -77,16 +77,12 @@ it's naive to think you can win against an egregore 1000 times bigger than you
 
 the Church
 
-won't you be embarrassed to leave if we create utopia
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 won't all those trans women be embarrassed after the singularity 
 
 we live in a world where reason doesn't work
 
 _not_ gaslight me about the most important thing in my life?
 
-I don't think I'm setting my price for joining particularly high here?
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 There could be similarly egregious errors that I'm not as sensitive too
 
 I don't think you can build an aligned superintelligence from a culture this crazy
@@ -544,7 +540,7 @@ but ... that's my entire social circle
 
 If I can't ragequit the community, I have to do the analogue of going to grad school, while hating school—I don't have an exit this time
 
-(Picture me playing Hermione Granger in an adaptation of the Great Teacher's famous _Harry Potter_ fanfic: "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!")
+(Picture me playing Hermione Granger in a post-Singularity adaptation of the Great Teacher's famous _Harry Potter_ fanfic (Emma Watson having loaned me a copy of her body for the occasion): "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!")
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WLJwTJ7uGPA5Qphbp/trying-to-try
 > it's a lens through which you can view many-but-not-all personal dilemmas—"What standard am I holding myself to?  Is it high enough?"
@@ -559,3 +555,5 @@ if I'm allowed to have unflattering psychological theories about other people, t
 "If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything." —Daniel Dennett
 
 > "The Choice between Good and Bad," said the Lord of Dark in a slow, careful voice, as though explaining something to a child, "is not a matter of saying 'Good!'  It is about deciding which is which."
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+inside views are just outside views against a finer-grained method of constructing reference classes