Nitpick:

although some of these reviewers only saw bits of it.

Gary Marcus was shared the full draft including all the background research / forecast drafts. So it would be more accurate to say "only read bits of it".

I think this is excellent criticism!

Would he have been allowed to attend if he wanted to? (I think you really need to have a process to filter out people like him.)

I agree it's not clear there's anything useful to be done, which is why I asked for a good plan.

If someone has a good plan for how to make good/useful things happen here, but requires funding for it, please contact me.

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(See my edit)

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