David Boree

So she does start to transition during this period of time.

She goes on finasteride, which helps to avoid male pattern baldness.

And she starts experimenting with estrogen and antiandrogens.

She wanted to avoid this for I'm sure she had a variety of reasons.

But as soon as she starts taking hormones, they have such a positive effect.

She describes it as a hard to describe felt sense of cognitive benefits.

And she decides to stay on them.

By October, she'd committed to start writing a blog about her own feelings and theories on rationalism.

And her model here was Yudkowsky.

She names this blog Sin Seriously, and it was her attempt to convince other rationalists to adopt her beliefs about, like, veganism and such.

Her first articles are like pretty bland.

It's these scattered concepts and thought experiments, very basic stuff like can God create a rock so big God couldn't move it?

And then like throwing a rationalist spin on that.

So it's – a lot of this is like, oh, maybe in an area in which college didn't cost 200 grand, you could have just gotten a philosophy degree.

Right.

That would have made you happy.

Right, right, right.

You just wanted to spend a couple of years talking through silly ideas based on dead Greek guys.

Well, you know, the Bay is the place to do that.

Yeah.