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

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+Or if you have some other Pareto improvement to propose (relative to the obvious Nash equilibrium world where I published without emailing you first, and you ignored it).
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+I considered the September clarification sufficient! You reopened hostilities in February by putting up more bullshit that I have to waste months of my life refuting!
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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
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 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