memoir: March–early April 2017 email review

The email review notefile has been helpful for pt. 3 (working title "A
Hill ..."); let's do it for pt. 2 (working title "Blanchard's
Dangerous Idea ...") as well. Most of these emails are boring until we
get to the psych ward incident, which I don't feel like reading in
full detail ...

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+Remaining email timeline—
+9 Mar: me to Michael on "slowly coming around to you"—Okay, maybe confusing and hurting the feelings of the nice people doing their jobs is actually acceptable collateral damage in the war against the control system. Or, not a war. An endeavor to map what the control system is in detail, and publish the map on the internet.
+11 Mar: me to Orion—Do you want to get a beer sometime next week?
+12 Mar: me to Lauren Rath on getting around to reading Girard
+12 Mar: Can I have your promise that you wouldn't contact the authorities even if you did literally think I would literally successfully kill myself if you didn't? (I don't expect this scenario to come up, but I want to know who I can trust in scenarios where my will comes into conflict with social reality.)
+14 Mar: reach out to Jon Solera
+14-15 Mar: fighting with James Cook
+15 Mar: email Prof. Smigelski
+15 Mar: email Prof. Huff
+15 Mar: "a few thoughts" to Marcus
+15 Mar: Prof. H.
+19 Mar: I get back to Jessica
+18 Mar: forward my first hate mail to Kay
+23 Mar: Blanchard forwards to Lawrence article
+24 Mar: Marcus—
+> I do not think a sane society could deal with 3% of males transitioning [...]  I can't quite visualize what such a world would look like
+me—
+> It looks like my social circle. (This is why I'm worried about suboptimal social norms getting locked in for the wrong reasons—what's fashionable in Berkeley in year X is likely to be mainstream in year X+20.)
+25 Mar: more with Marcus
+26 Mar: SEXNET invitation
+30 Mar: possible part-time work on Portal
+30 Mar: SwiftStack options
+31 Mar: forward AllDayChemist order to Alice
+1 Apr: Blanchard-Bailey-Lawrence
+1 Apr: reply to Smigelski ...
+2 Apr: Re: Another autogynophilic rationalist is in a psych ward
+
+> Beyond that, do you know anyone in Pittsburgh?  Can you look for CMU EAs out rationalists willing to help out?
+> If needed, can you visit a hospital there, talk with someone having an episode (maybe ideally staying at their place) and help them to get out of there and it to the Bay Area, enlisting Scott S if there's a need for an actual psychiatrist to help?  
+ 
+> Do you feel that you can provide the sort of attentive, active listening that would emotionally support someone in a high integrity agitated state where their ideas may not be literally true, and also may be true but hard to justify, but the ideas are at least honest metaphorical pointers at something that they think is there and needs to be recognized for safety?
+
+3 Apr: Devi situation continues
+(and getting back to Solera)
+
+> ... or the bastards didn't actually give her the message and the opportunity to make a phone call, or she's so upset from the combination of the psychotic break and getting kidnapped that she can't make a phone call herself, but would really really appreciate being handed a phone with someone she knows on the line. Don't you think those scenarios deserve some probability mass?