memoir: quick note on the optimization lens?!

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@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ I guess not! ["Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)"](https://www.lesswrong.com/p
 
 I don't doubt Yudkowsky could come up with some clever casuistry why, _technically_, the text he wrote in 2007 and the text he endorsed in 2021 don't contradict each other. But _realistically_ ... again, no.
 
-[TODO: elaborate on how 2007!Yudkowsky and 2021!Xu are saying the opposite things if you just take a plain-language reading]
+[TODO: elaborate on how 2007!Yudkowsky and 2021!Xu are saying the opposite things if you just take a plain-language reading and consider, not whether individual sentences can be interpreted as "true", but what kind of _optimization_ the text is doing to the behavior of receptive readers]
 
 [TODO: if he's reading this, win back respect— reply, motherfucker]