...and I don't want to be associated with the kind of unnecessarily antagonistic tone displayed here.

Have you seen me complaining about the antagonistic tone that EY is exhibiting in his comments? Here are the first two replies of people in the academics I wrote about this post, addressing EY:

Wow, that's an incredibly arrogant put-down by Eliezer..SIAI won't win many friends if he puts things like that...

and

...he seems to have lost his mind and written out of strong feelings. I disagree with him on most of these matters.