That sounds great (and quite surprising to me).
Just guessing; is he XXXXXX from the MIRI top donors list?
As a person who donates to MIRI and tries to not associate this with my powerword, I'd like to encourage people to not attempt to unmask psuedonyms.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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