If I submit this possible grammar error (in description) to Eliezer Yudkowsky, will he say it's not actually an error?
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Context: I submitted a bunch of grammar errors to him a few years ago. The first few were actually errors but then I got on a cold streak where I kept misidentifying things that were not errors as errors.

From his April Fool's Day Confession of 2014.

https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools-day-confession

Here's the quote:

"Instead of closed offices, most of people worked or learned under the sunlight, shielded by a glass screen overhead that kept out the rain and ultraviolet, with your own space concealed by curtains that could be opened or shut to indicate botherability."

I would say that it should be "most people worked", not "most of people worked". I suspect he may have originally meant to write "most of dath ilan worked".

If I send it in and never hear back from him (which is certainly his prerogative) then I guess I'll resolve it YES, because the end result where the "of" is never officially identified as an error is the same.

PS: If one or more people comment saying they don't want me to bet on this market then I will grant their request and not bet on my own market. Yudkowsky can bet on this market if he wants to, I guess. I for one wouldn't be bothered.

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"most of people worked" sounds like a grammar error to me. (Another way to fix it could be "most of the people worked" - emphasis added.)