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@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Looking over the thread in retrospect, [these words from David Xu seem significa
 
 > _We all know that falsifying data is bad._ But if that's the way the incentives point (and that's a very important if!), then it's _also_ bad to call people out for doing it. If you do that, then you're using moral indignation as a weapon—a way to not only coerce other people into using up their willpower, but to come out of it looking good yourself.
 
-In an email (Subject: "LessWrong.com is dead to me"), Jessica identified the thread (in particular, moderator Ray Arnold's comments) as her last straw:
+In an email (Subject: "LessWrong.com is dead to me"), Jessica identified the thread as her last straw:
 
 > LessWrong.com is a place where, if the value of truth conflicts with the value of protecting elites' feelings and covering their asses, the second value will win.
 >
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ Secret posse member expressed sadness about how the discussion on "The Incentive
 
 > I['m] sorry it made you sad. From my perspective, the question is no[t] "can we still be friends with such people", but "how can we still be friends with such people" and I am pretty certain that understanding their perspective if an important part of the answer. If clarity seems like death to them and like life to us, and we don't know this, IMHO that's an unpromising basis for friendship.
 
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 [TODO—
  * Jessica: scortched-earth campaign should mostly be in meatspace social reality
  * my comment on emotive conjugation (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qaYeQnSYotCHQcPh8/drowning-children-are-rare#GaoyhEbzPJvv6sfZX)