>I’m the least unqualified person around. Those words are chosen deliberately, for this post on “less wrong.” I have a unique combination of expertise that includes being a rationalist, sixth grade teacher, coach, RA/head of a dormitory, ringleader of a pack of hooligans, member of two honor code committees, curriculum director, obsessive sci-fi/fantasy nerd, writer, builder, martial artist, parkour guru, maker, and generalist. If anybody’s intuitions and S1 models are likely to be capable of distinguishing the uncanny valley from the real deal, I posit mine are.

>There’s never been a safer context for this sort of experiment. It’s 2017, we live in the United States, and all of the people involved are rationalists. We all know about NVC and double crux, we’re all going to do Circling, we all know about Gendlin’s Focusing, and we’ve all read the Sequences (or will soon). If ever there was a time to say “let’s all step out onto the slippery slope, I think we can keep our balance,” it’s now—there’s no group of people better equipped to stop this from going sideways.

my favorite part of this is the hypothetical reader who thinks this is a bad idea until they read that the guy in charge of it is a "fantasy nerd"