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@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ slotted TODO blocks—
 ✓ Dolphin War finish
 ✓ lead-in to Sept. 2021 Twitter altercation
 ✓ out of patience email
-- Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip
+✓ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip
+_ complicity and friendship
 _ plan to reach out to Rick / Michael on creepy men/crazy men
 _ State of Steven
 _ reaction to Ziz
-_ complicity and friendship
 _ repair pt. 5 dath ilan transition
 - Eliezerfic fight conclusion
 
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ _ do I have a better identifier than "Vassarite"?
 _ maybe I do want to fill in a few more details about the Sasha disaster, conditional on what I end up writing regarding Scott's prosecution?—and conditional on my separate retro email—also the Zolpidem thing
 _ mention "Darkest Timeline" and Skyrms somewhere
 _ footnote explaining quibbles? (the first time I tried to write this, I hesitated, not sure if necessary)
+_ "it was the same thing here"—most readers are not going to understand what I see as the obvious analogy
 
 pt. 4 edit tier—
 _ mention Nick Bostrom email scandal (and his not appearing on the one-sentence CAIS statement)
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ _ cut lots of words from Scotts comments on Jessica's MIRI post (keep: "attempti
 
 dath ilan ancillary tier—
 _ Who are the 9 most important legislators called?
+_ collect Earth people sneers
 
 
 things to discuss with Michael/Ben/Jessica—
@@ -297,7 +299,7 @@ people to consult before publishing, for feedback or right of objection—
 _ Iceman
 _ Scott
 _ hostile prereader (April—if not, J. Beshir, Swimmer, someone else from Alicorner #drama)
-_ Kelsey
+_ Kelsey (what was that 1 year statute of limitations about??)
 _ NRx Twitter bro
 _ maybe SK (briefly about his name)? (the memoir might have the opposite problem (too long) from my hostile-shorthand Twitter snipes)
 _ Megan (that poem could easily be about some other entomologist named Megan) ... I'm probably going to cut that §, though
@@ -2804,3 +2806,12 @@ On 27 September 2023, Yudkowsky told Quentin Pope, "If I was given to your sort
 Was he subtweeting me?? (Because I was defending criticism against tone policing, and this is saying tone is a valid cue.) If it was a subtweet, I take that as vindication that my reply was a good use of bandwidth.
 
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+In particular, I think the conspiracy theory "Yudkowsky sometimes avoids nuanced arguments that he doesn't trust people to understand" is true, because ... you've said so (e.g., "without getting into any weirdness that I don't expect Earthlings to think about validly"). https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/2NncxDQ3KBDCxiJiP/cosmopolitan-values-don-t-come-free/comment/dMHdWcxgSpcdyG4hb
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+(He responded to me in this interaction, which is interesting.)
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+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1708587781424046242
+> Zack, you missed this point presumably because you're losing your grasp of basic theory in favor of conspiracy theory.