"So, like, the nearest thing to that I can figure in dath ilan, is, you've got explicit monogamy with somebody, your friends know you're monogamous, you tell them you super trust her and she doesn't seem at all like the kind of complete crazy person who will secretly violate an explicit agreement like that instead of just terminating it explicitly like a sane person, and then a somehow-credible rumor starts that she fucked somebody else, who presumably didn't know about the monogamy agreement, and somehow this rumor is exactly credible enough as evidence that it balances the improbability of violating an agreement like that, and your friends are like 'well gosh in the possible world where that's true, you sure did fail to detect a crazy person' and then they don't cofound a startup with you where you manage hiring, until that gets resolved."

"And by this incredibly circuitous route, it is possible for an unverified story that somebody who is not me, fucked somebody else who is not me, to impinge on my own reputation."

"This, I conjecture, is not even remotely what is going on in Golarion, not least because I get the implicit sense that the rumor was supposed to be damaging independently of the state of evidence was behind it."  He really needs to explain Law of Probability so these words will mean any things.

"So, like, the nearest thing to that I can figure in dath ilan, is, you've got explicit monogamy with somebody, your friends know you're monogamous, you tell them you super trust her and she doesn't seem at all like the kind of complete crazy person who will secretly violate an explicit agreement like that instead of just terminating it explicitly like a sane person.  Then a somehow-credible rumor starts that she fucked somebody else, who presumably didn't know about the monogamy agreement.  Somehow this rumor is exactly credible enough as evidence that it balances the improbability of violating an agreement like that.  Your friends are like 'well gosh in the possible world where that's true, you sure did fail to detect a crazy person'.  Then they don't cofound a startup with you where you manage hiring, until that gets resolved."

"So, by this incredibly circuitous route, it is possible for an unverified story that somebody who is not me, fucked somebody else who is not me, to impinge on my own reputation for being competent or trustworthy at something."

"This, I conjecture, is not even remotely what is going on in Golarion, not least because I get the implicit sense that the rumor was supposed to be damaging independently of the state of evidence was behind it."  He really needs to explain Law of Probability so these words will mean any things.

"So, like, the nearest thing to that I can figure in dath ilan, is, you've got explicit monogamy with somebody, your friends know you're monogamous, you tell them you super trust her and she doesn't seem at all like the kind of complete crazy person who will secretly violate an explicit agreement like that instead of just terminating it explicitly like a sane person.  Then a somehow-credible rumor starts that she fucked somebody else, who presumably didn't know about the monogamy agreement.  Somehow this rumor is exactly credible enough as evidence that it balances the improbability of violating an agreement like that.  Your friends are like 'well gosh in the possible world where that's true, you sure did fail to detect a crazy person'.  Then they don't cofound a startup with you where you manage hiring, until that gets resolved."

"So, by this incredibly circuitous route, it is possible for an unverified story that somebody who is not me, fucked somebody else who is not me, to impinge on my own reputation for being competent or trustworthy at something."

"This, I conjecture, is not even remotely what is going on in Golarion, not least because I get the implicit sense that the rumor was supposed to be damaging independently of the state of evidence behind it."  He really needs to explain Law of Probability so these words will mean any things.

"So, like, the nearest thing to that I can figure in dath ilan, is, you've agreed on monogamy with somebody, your friends know you're monogamous, you tell them you super trust her and she doesn't seem at all like the kind of complete crazy person who will secretly violate an agreement like that instead of just terminating it explicitly like a sane person.  Then a somehow-credible rumor starts that she fucked somebody else, who presumably didn't know about the monogamy agreement.  Somehow this rumor is exactly credible enough as evidence that it balances the improbability of violating an agreement like that.  Your friends are like 'well gosh in the possible world where that's true, you sure did fail to detect a crazy person'.  Then they don't cofound a startup with you where you manage hiring, until that gets resolved."

"So, by this incredibly circuitous route, it is possible for an unverified story that somebody who is not me, fucked somebody else who is not me, to impinge on my own reputation for being competent or trustworthy at something."

"This, I conjecture, is not even remotely what is going on in Golarion, not least because I get the implicit sense that the rumor was supposed to be damaging independently of the state of evidence behind it."  He really needs to explain Law of Probability so these words will mean any things.