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We can forward as a secondary hypothesis that this seems reasonable to Yudkowsky because it is, broadly speaking, his fetish. I wish I could avoid discussing this entirely because it seems uncouth and ad hominem. Yudkowsky has co-authored, with lintamande, a 1.8 million word collaborative glowfic called Planecrash (also titled Project Lawful ). He says that "[w]hether an intelligence being…