As far as I can see, your point is something like:

"Your reasoning implies I should read some specific thing; there is no such thing; therefore your reasoning is mistaken." (or, "unless you can produce such a thing...")

I think it's more like

"Your reasoning implies I should have read some specific idea, but so far you haven't given me any such idea and why it should matter, only general references to books and authors without pointing to any specific idea in them"

Part of the talking-past-each-other may come from the fact that by "thing", Eliezer seems to mean "specific concept", and you seem to mean "book".

There also seems to be some disagreement as to what warrants references - for Eliezer it seems to be "I got idea X from Y", for you it's closer to "Y also has idea X".