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 with internet available—
+_ Gallileo "And yet it moves"
 _ Discord logs before Austin retreat
 _ examples of snarky comments about "the rationalists" 
 _ screenshot Rob's Facebook comment which I link
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 far editing tier—
 _ rephrase "gamete size" discussion to make it clearer that Yudkowsky's proposal also implicitly requires people to be agree about the clustering thing
 _ smoother transition between "deliberately ambiguous" and "was playing dumb"; I'm not being paranoid for attributing political motives to him, because he told us that he's doing it
-_ it's worth an extra two sentences to explain context of Robert Stadler comparison better
 _ I'm sure Eliezer Yudkowsky could think of some relevant differences
 _ clarify why Michael thought Scott was "gaslighting" me, include "beeseech bowels of Christ"
 _ conversation with Ben about physical injuries (this is important because it explains where the "cut my dick off rhetoric" came from)
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 Still citing it (19 Sep 22): https://twitter.com/ingalala/status/1568391691064729603
 
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+If you _have_ intent-to-inform and occasionally end up using your megaphone to say false things (out of sloppiness or motivated reasoning in the passion of the moment), it's actually not that big of a deal, as long as you're willing to acknowledge corrections. (It helps if you have critics who personally hate your guts and therefore have a motive to catch you making errors, and a discerning audience who will only reward the critics for finding real errors and not fake errors.) In the long run, the errors cancel out.
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+If you _don't_ have intent-to-inform, but make sure to never, ever say false things (because you know that "lying" is wrong, and think that as long as you haven't "lied", you're in the clear), but you don't feel like you have an obligation to acknowledge criticisms (for example, because you think you and your flunkies are the only real people in the world, and anyone who doesn't want to become one of your flunkies can be disdained as a "post-rat"), that's potentially a much worse situation, because the errors don't cancel.