+(It's really striking how, despite sneering about the lost of art of perspective taking, he doesn't seem capable of entertaining the perspective under which the published text of the Sequences might have led someone to form higher expectations of his performance. Oli Habryka gets it! (<https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/juZ8ugdNqMrbX7x2J/challenges-to-yudkowsky-s-pronoun-reform-proposal/comment/he8dztSuBBuxNRMSY>) Vaniver gets it! (<https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/yFZH2sBsmmqgWm4Sp/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them/comment/dSiBGRGziEffJqN2B>) Eliezer Yudkowsky either doesn't get it, or is pretending not to get it. I almost suspect it's the first one, which is far worse.)
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+Given that this is very obviously a conflict and not a disagreement, it seems prudent for me to strategize about what his defense is going to be—if any. He _could_ just ignore it. But he does occasionally respond to critics, and I think my voice carries enough intra-cult weight that he'll plausibly want to defend against the reputational damage. (We've seen that he's _very_ skilled at high-verbal-IQ ass-covering.) Is there anything I can do to pre-empt the ass-covering maneuvers, separately from what's already in the post?
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+I thought about taking out a Manifold market for "Will Yudkowsky reply to [post tile] in a way that an _Overcoming Bias_ reader in 2008 would have judged as non-evasive, as assessed by [third party judge]?" and buying some NO. (I think Ben Pace is credibly neutral and would agree to judge.) The idea being that the market makes him less likely to ass-cover, because it would look very bad for him if the judge rules that a 2009 _Overcoming Bias_ reader wouldn't buy it.