Whoops, USD 10^13 , of course.
(0) Ask people smarter and more familiar with the subjects than myself on how I should approach these things.
With the exception of "(5) Minimum necessary charity not to be a pariah." pretty much the same as HA, but in addition to that and more specifically:(I'd hire people to start doing listed things simultaneously, so not really in order)
(8) contact various AI, nanotech and life extension organizations and people in order to start negotiations on how much money should be given and to whom(a very important aspect of this being of course not to g...
Laura ABJ: In Netherlands there's apparently an "escort service" targeted towards insecure virgin male nerds that does not offer a sex only service but some more comprehensive training as well. Of course the three hour minimum is ridiculously short for building relevant social skills but otherwise I think it's basically what you suggested. link
Anyway, the sex part of such a training should be the easier part. What would me more difficult is building the confidence to initiate and to appropriately respond to romantic and sexual contact with the r...
Three wishes for improvement (don't know how easily done on Typepad, if at all)
1) In addition to feeds available now, an RSS or Atom feed that includes all posts and all comments to them
2) disable comment pagination
3) ability to edit comments for a short while after publishing them