another "Challenges" edit pass

another "Challenges" edit pass

I'm thinking of just pulling the trigger on this today, just as a
standalone object-level post. The meta-level intellectual dishonesty
arguments can wait; it will take more weeks or months for me to break
out of enough of my silencing spiral to finish the Whole Dumb Story.

I need the psychological momentum. This post (without the coda) is a
little bit mean to Yudkowsky, but not so mean that I'm too scared to
pull the trigger today, whereas with the coda, I would want to hire a
hostile prereader to make sure I'm not setting myself socially on
fire. (Yudkowsky was mean to Ngo and Shah in the recent MIRI
dialogues; I don't think this is worse than that.)