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You asked a question generated from the examples; you said I gave "a very good summary", is there anything more you wanted to add to the summary?
Err, now I don't know whose questions I'm answering, so I'll just focus on this part: "is there anything more you wanted to add to the summary?"
You already did a good job of pointing out where the mistakes were, so if I wanted to add something, it would be on the "fixing things" side.
My impulses tell me that besides the "big picture" description, it is useful to identify very specific thoughts or actions that could help, or serve as an early warning system.
E.g., to use patterns from Eliezer's sequences, that are well known to ...
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