I think not understanding how this happen may be a very good predictor for losing.
If you did have a clear idea of how it works, and had a reason for it not to work on you specifically but work on others, then that may have been a predictor for it not working on you.
I think I have very clear idea of how those things work in general. Leaving aside very specific arguments, this relies on massive over updating you are going to do when an argument is presented to you, updating just the nodes that you are told to update, and by however much you are told to update them, when you can’t easily see why not.
That’s really disturbing. I exchanged some friendly emails with him a few months back last time :/ . Didn’t think of this as a possibility at all. So sad to see younger people go.
Sidenote: something is profoundly wrong with US. 35 years sentence even as a possibility? What the hell? In the EU he’d face some fine and community service maybe and that’s about it, or actually nothing at all as the case would have been dropped when MIT and JSTOR backed down.