Can you be more concrete about what "catching the ears of senators" means? That phrase seems like it could refer to a lot of very different things of highly disparate levels of impressiveness.
It is not a paraphrase; the denotation of these sentences is not precisely the same. However, it is also not entirely surprising that these two phrases would evoke similar behavior from the model.
Agreed. Some of the content I post on Twitter could eventually make its way into a LW post or comment, but it would have to be completely rewritten. I think I have seen some people crosspost Twitter threads on LW, and found it annoying.
It took me a minute to read this as an exclamatory O, rather than as "[There are] zero things I would write, were I better at writing."