"Challenges": narrow the scope like a coward? Or ...

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 as far as I can tell, I'm only doing what you taught me to do: carve reality at the joints, speak the truth even as your voice trembles, make an extraordinary effort when you've got something to protect
 
 How sensitive is he to reputational concerns? Compare feud with Alexander Kruel
 as far as I can tell, I'm only doing what you taught me to do: carve reality at the joints, speak the truth even as your voice trembles, make an extraordinary effort when you've got something to protect
 
 How sensitive is he to reputational concerns? Compare feud with Alexander Kruel

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+Do you particularly _care_ if I publish two blog posts that say some negative things about you? (That is, not just responding to object-level arguments, but also going into stuff like, "And I think Yudkowsky was being culpably intellectually dishonest here in the following sense based on the following evidence [...]". I used to trust you as a general-purpose intellectual authority, but I think you've made it very clear that you don't think you can politically afford being worthy of that level of trust, and I think I have a legitimate interest in writing about that.)
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+If you actually _care_ about potential reputational damage to you from my writing the things that I think I have a legitimate interest in writing about, I'd be willing to let you pre-read the drafts before publishing and give you the chance to object to anything you think is unfair.
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+But I don't want to waste any more of your time, and it's a lot harder to write when I'm spending more time worrying about what you'd think of me, than on saying the things I need to say.
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+But since you probably _don't_ particularly care (because it's not AGI alignment and therefore unimportant), **may I please have your blessing to just write and publish what I'm thinking so I can get it all out of my system and move on with my life?**
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+I would assume that the privacy norm applying to our previous interactions is that I'm allowed to 
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+I remain,
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+Your faithful student,
+Zack M. Davis