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+As an illustration of how the hope for radical human enhancement is [fraught with technical difficulties](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQkELCGiGQwvrrp3L/growing-up-is-hard), ["Changing Emotions"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions) sketches a picture of just how difficult an actual male-to-female sex change would be.
 
-["Changing Emotions"]
+It would be hard to overstate how much of an impact that post had on me. 
+
+http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2004-September/008924.html
+[it's hard to overstate the impact this one post had on me (I've already linked it 8 times on this blog)]
 
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@@ -17,7 +21,7 @@ An aside: being famous must _suck_. I haven't experienced this myself, but I'm s
 
 Oh, sure, it's nice to see your work get read and appreciated by people—I've experienced that much. (Shout-out to my loyal fans—all three of you![^fans]) But when you're _famous_, everybody wants a piece of you. The fact that your work influences _so many_ people, makes you a _target_ for anyone who wants to indirectly wield your power for their own ends. Every new author wants you to review their book; every ideologue wants you on their side ...
 
-And when someone in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that impinges on their interests, they might spend an _unreasonable_ amount of effort obsessively trying to argue with you about it.
+And when a crazy person in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that impinges on their interests, they might spend an _unreasonable_ amount of effort obsessively trying to argue with you about it.
 
 [^fans]: I'm specifically thinking of W.E., R.S., and [Sophia](http://unremediatedgender.space/author/sophia/).
 
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 [if I agree that pronouns aren't lies, why was I so freaked out]
 
-[pronouns do have truth conditions, cruelty to ordinary people]
+[pronouns do have truth conditions, Weak Men recenter category boundaries, cruelty to ordinary people, optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex]
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+[Pope who is also Jesus, Selective Draft Law cases]