check in (peeking at resources on the laptop)

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@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ This product is _amazing_. It really looks like a woman's face! Just—a detache
 
 The skin color and texture is much more realistic than the cartoon beige of the Gold Seal bodysuit reviewed above. (I wonder how much it helps that Crea FX are visual-effects artists by trade—makers of male masks and monster masks for movies and plays—rather than being in the MtF business specifically, like the Breast Form Store. They know—I assume they _must_ know—that a lot of their female masks are purchased by guys like me with motives like mine, but we're not the _target_ demographic, the reason they mastered their skills.)
 
+[TODO: "they must know" link to blog post about their appaearance at the German Fetish Fair]
+
 Getting the mask on and off was no problem at all. (By this point, I had opened the can of baby powder.) It somehow manages to look worse in photographs than it does in the mirror? Is it possible my big Jewish nose streches out the mask's nose a bit? Whatever. Standing a distance from the mirror in a dark hotel room, I swear _I actually bought it_, and if the moment of passing to myself in the mirror was an anticlimax, it was an anticlimax I've been waiting my entire life (since puberty) for.
 
 The worst nonrealism is the eyeholes. Nothing is worse for making a mask look like a mask than visible eyehole seams around the eyes. But suppose I wore sunglasses. Women wear sunglasses sometimes! Could I pass to _someone else_? (Not for very long or bearing any real scrutiny, but [to someone who wasn't expecting it](/2020/Dec/crossing-the-line/).)

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@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ With internet available—
 ✓ comments on "Self-Consciousness wants to make"
 ✓ tussle with Ruby on "Causal vs. Social Reality"
 ✓ The End (of Sequences)
+_ retrieve own-blog links for "futurist-themed delusions"
+_ URL for "Why Quantum?"
 _ double-check that "Changing Emotions" was in January
 _ No such thing as a tree
 _ Yudkowsky on AlphaGo
@@ -750,6 +752,8 @@ the Extropians post _explicitly_ says "may be a common sexual fantasy"
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science
 > I'm not sure that human beings realistically _can_ trust and think at the same time.
 
+"Why Quantum" has another reference to "doesn't seem possible to think and trust"
+
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t6Fe2PsEwb3HhcBEr/the-litany-against-gurus
 
 
@@ -1727,4 +1731,14 @@ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/be-afraid-9802
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TQSb4wd6v5C3p6HX2/the-pascal-s-wager-fallacy-fallacy#pART2rjzcmqATAZio
 > egoists, but not altruists, should immediately commit suicide in case someone is finishing their AI project in a basement, right now.
-(I remembered this as suggesting some plausibility in sudden Singularity even then, but in context it's more clearly in thought-experimental mode)
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+(I remembered this as suggesting some plausibility in sudden Singularity even then, but in context it's more clearly in thought-experimental mode)
+
+from "Go Forth and Create the Art"—
+> To the best of my knowledge there is _no_ true science that draws its strength from only one person. To the best of my knowledge that is _strictly_ an idiom of cults. A true science may have its heroes, it may even have its lonely defiant heroes, but _it will have more than one_. 
+
+contrast the sneering at Earth people with the attitude in "Whining-Based Communities"
+
+from "Why Quantum?"—
+> But would you believe that I had such strong support, if I had not shown it to you in full detail? Ponder this well. For I may have other strong opinions. And it may seem to you that _you_ do't see any good reason to form such strong beliefs. Except this is _not_ what you will see; you will see simply that there _is_ no good reason for the strong belief, that there _is_ no strong support one way or the other. For our first-order beliefs are how the world seems to _be_. And you may think, "Oh, Eliezer is just opinionated—forming strong beliefs in the absence of lopsided support." And I will not have time to do another couple of months worth of blog posts.
+>
+> I am _very_ far from infallible, but I do not hold strong opinions at random.