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 ✓ Vassar discourse I
 ✓ community health check
 ✓ Vassar discourse II
-_ Vassar discourse III
+✓ ordering DIY hormones
+✓ asking Anna for promise
+- Vassar discourse III
 _ emailing Blanchard/Bailey/Hsu/Lawrence/Cantor/Dreger
-_ asking Anna for promise
-_ ordering DIY hormones
 _ proposed credit-assignment ritual
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 _ "Roberta" situation
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 With internet available—
+_ P(doom)
 _ find the part of _Stranger in a Strange Land_ with the AGP telepathy!!
 _ Michael on OB in 'aught-eight on smart kids internalizing rules meant for the norm of reaction of a dumber population
 _ Tweet from Dreger
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 _ Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy
 
 far editing tier—
+_ mention "special simulator attention" in cxn with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_of_reference_and_delusions_of_reference
 _ make sure I mention father asking me to wait before re-starting HRT
 _ rename "Trent" again (collision with vaticidalprophet Trent)
 _ "People": say something about the awkward racial/political dynamics of three of my four anecdotes being about black people? Salient because rare? Salient because of my NRx-pilling?
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 > Dear Suzanne Martin & Albert Lee—please learn auction theory; it will help you actually be an effective altruist, which is something your currently not trying to do, but which you'll realize was important later. I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,  
 > Zack M. Davis
 
-(I had promised my father to wait a month after my psych ward ordeal to re-start HRT, but I [would restart](/2017/Mar/hormones-reboot-spironotacular/).)
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+(I had promised my father to wait a month after my psych ward ordeal to re-start HRT, but I [would restart](/2017/Mar/hormones-reboot-spironotacular/).)
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+ * Alice said something about how every once in a while, someone runs off with the payments database
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+To the extent that I was seeing things that weren't there, it was a matter of misinterpreting actual sensory inputs rather than having de novo hallucinations.
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+What I thought was a dog turd inside the kitchen actually turned out to be a cork.
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+When I was borrowing someone's computer, I thought I saw an icon peek out from the side of the screen, as if a possibly-malevolent agent were spying on me—a disturbing visual hallucination. Later that year, when trying out the stock Ubuntu Unity desktop on my new computer, I discovered that the app-notification animation actually does feature an app icon "sliding out" and shaking, like I remembered seeing—I wasn't imagining it!
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+I remember seeing text on my phone and being distinctly convinced that it was misspelled. Five years later, looking at the distorted lettering output by text-to-image models that can't spell seemed subjectively similar. (Good news for alignment, if it looks like deep learning and sleep-deprived human brains are doing "the same thing"?)
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