notes, tidying, call the shot for new sections

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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ At the time, [I expressed horror](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ctpkTaqTKbm
 
 On my reading of the text, it is _significant_ that the AI-synthesized complements for men are given their own name, the _verthandi_, rather than just being referred to as women. The _verthandi_ may _look like_ women, they may be _approximately_ psychologically human, but the _detailed_ psychology of "superintelligently-engineered optimal romantic partner for a human male" is not going to come out of the distribution of actual human females, and judicious exercise of the [tenth virtue of precision](http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues/) demands that a _different word_ be coined for this hypothetical science-fictional type of person. Calling the _verthandi_ "women" would be _worse writing_; it would _fail to communicate_ what, in the story, has been lost.
 
+["Changing Emotions"]
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 Men who wish they were women do not particularly resemble actual women! We just—don't? This seems kind of obvious, really?
@@ -25,3 +27,11 @@ And when someone in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that
 [^fans]: I'm specifically thinking of W.E., R.S., and [Sophia](http://unremediatedgender.space/author/sophia/).
 
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+[document (with archive links) what EY said]
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+[if I agree that pronouns aren't lies, why was I so freaked out]
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+[pronouns do have truth conditions, cruelty to ordinary people]