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If he says that it starts with him, it won't ring well because it doesn't structurally change anything and only looks like posturing.

"I promise to be a good guy" doesn't convey anything meaningful.

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I'm not sure why you worry about how Chris Olah appears to others.

Talking is cheap, but even talk is better then the impotent call for "people outside."

It's not really impotent when he's referring to a very specific person who's the head of a religion with 1.3 billion adherents, is it? What is this but a moment when a person on the inside and a person on the outside of the incentives Olah mentions are coming together to talk about the same thing?

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