If the "legal issue" is what I think it is, then having a post about it here at LW is just worthless gossiping. Just because it might involve the real-world "rationality community" in some tangential way doesn't mean it has a place on this site. Many people here don't even care about what MIRI or CFAR might be working on!
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, then it goes here.
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