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Looks like #6 in the TL;DRs section is accidentally duplicated (with the repeat numbered as #7)

Solid point. I realise I was unclear that for face shape I had in mind external influences in utero (while the bones of the face are growing into place in the fetus). Which would at least be a somewhat shared environment between twins. But nonetheless, changing my mind in real-time, because I would have expected more difference from one side of a womb to the other than we actually see between twins. 

Even if I'm mistaken about faces though, I don't think I'm wrong about brains, or humans in general.

In other words, all the information that controls the shape of your face, your bones, your organs and every single enzyme inside them – all of that takes less storage space than Microsoft Word™.

The shape of your face, and much else besides, will be affected by random chance and environmental influences during the process of development and growth. 

The eventual details of the brain, likewise, will be in large part a response to the environment—developing and learning from experience. 

So the final complexity of a human being is not actually bounded by the data contained in the genome, in the way described. 

I wasn't the one eating it, but having prepared a couple of Huel's "hot meal pot/pouch" options for my partner (I forget which ones exactly, but something in the way of mac & cheese or pasta bolognese), I can report that I found the smell coming off it to be profoundly unappetising.

Not sure how they went down with her, but there's a small stash of these pots in the cupboard that she hasn't touched beyond the first few—so I suspect not very well.

Slight glitches:

The "chapter shortcuts" section of https://www.lesswrong.com/s/9SJM9cdgapDybPksi lists "editPost" links to the chapter drafts (inaccessible to others)

The numbering in the post titles skip over #4

Oh I was very on board with the sarcasm. Although as a graduate of one of them, I obviously can't believe you're rating the other one so highly.

This is a general principal

Principle* — unless they're the head-teacher of a school, the type to be involved in a principal/agent problem, or otherwise the "first"

graduates of the great English universities (both of them)

Shots fired

That definitely looks like the one. Appears I'd forgotten some of the context/details though.

I could swear there was a similar Scott Alexander post, about flirting deliberately skirting the edge of plausible deniability to avoid prematurely creating common knowledge. With an analogy to spies trying to identify a fellow operative without overtly tipping their hand in case they were mistaken and speaking to a non-spy.

Can't find it now: might have since been deleted, or might have only ever existed on LiveJournal or Tumblr or something.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/26/conversation-deliberately-skirts-the-border-of-incomprehensibility/ is similar but not explicitly about flirting.

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