If adding the word "even" clarifies things for even just a tiny percentage of readers (clearly Tenoke found it helpful, and so did I), then it is worth doing. S

If adding the word "even" clarifies things for even just a tiny percentage of readers (clearly Tenoke found it helpful, and so did I), then it is worth doing. Sure, the article is quite long (Scott Alexander's writing often is), but the incremental cost of this one word (albeit repeated a few times in the article) does not increase that much.