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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ It all started in summer 2007 (I was nineteen years old), when I came across _Ov
 
 There are a few things about me that I need to explain before I get into the topic-specific impact the blog had on me.
 
-The first thing—the chronologically first thing. Ever since I was fourteen years old—
+The first thing—the chronologically first thing. Ever since I was thirteen or fourteen years old—
 
 (and I _really_ didn't expect to be blogging about this eighteen years later)
 
@@ -132,9 +132,11 @@ The main plot of my secret erotic fantasy accomodates many frame stories, but I
 
 So imagine having something like the transporter in _Star Trek_, but you re-materialize with the body of someone else, rather than your original body—a little booth I could walk in, dissolve in a tingly glowy special effect for a few seconds, and walk out looking [like Nana Visitor (circa 1998)](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kay_Eaton?file=Kay_Eaton.jpg).
 
-This high-level fantasy _description_ of a hypothetical technology leaves some details unspecified—not just the _how_, but the _what_. What would the magical transformation booth do to my brain? What would I _want_ it to do, if I can't change the physical nature of reality but if engineering practicalities weren't a constraint? (That is, I'm allowed to posit any atom-configuration without having to worry about how you would get all the atoms in the right place, but I'm not allowed to posit tethering my immortal soul to a new body, because souls aren't real.)
+This high-level fantasy _description_ of a hypothetical technology leaves some details unspecified—not just the _how_, but the _what_. What would the magical transformation booth do to my brain? What would I _want_ it to do, if I can't change [the basic nature of reality](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tPqQdLCuxanjhoaNs/reductionism) but if engineering practicalities weren't a constraint? (That is, I'm allowed to posit any atom-configuration without having to worry about how you would get all the atoms in the right place, but I'm not allowed to posit tethering my immortal soul to a new body, because [souls](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u6JzcFtPGiznFgDxP/excluding-the-supernatural) [aren't](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Au7kvRAPREm3ADcK/psychic-powers) [real](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fdEWWr8St59bXLbQr/zombies-zombies).)
 
-The point about motor connections makes me confident that it would have to change _something_ to integrate my mind with a new female body—if nothing else, my unmodified brain doesn't physically _fit_ inside Nana Visitor's skull. (The sex difference in raw brain matter is Cohen's _d_ ≈ 1.4, and Nana Visitor doesn't look like she has an unusually large head.)
+The anti-plug-and-play argument makes me confident that it would have to change _something_ to integrate my mind with a new female body—if nothing else, my unmodified brain doesn't physically _fit_ inside Nana Visitor's skull. (The sex difference in raw brain matter is Cohen's _d_ ≈ 1.4, and Nana Visitor doesn't look like she has an unusually large head.)
+
+[TODO: is the "brain matter" stat mass, or volume??]
 
 
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-Topical—
-
-_ The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open Empirical Question
 
 Main path (important posts)—
 
@@ -45,7 +42,9 @@ _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data prior: https
 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
 _ Comment on "Towards decolonising computational sciences" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14258
 _ My Identity Has a Better Brier Score Than Your Identity
+_ The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open Empirical Question
 
+optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex, even if your conscious verbal narrative never says 'and now I will confuse and intimidate people who want to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex'!"
 
 I should email caption bliggers and ask if they know about AGP
 https://www.imagefap.com/profile/rickbennett