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Try to find Jaynes or Hanson or Eliezer or the like saying something equally silly, and post that with citation hidden. ;)
Maybe I'm extra stupid today; I didn't think that quote was silly, and still don't.
My best guess is that with the source (and context) stripped away, people had a knee-jerk reflex to the word "holy".
I had the same reaction as lessdazed. "Love is pretty much the only law" isn't a coherent proposition, it's designed to sound nice, but it gives no indication that there's an idea for a sensible societal arrangement behind it.
Okay. I guess I need to take that as evidence that I was blinded by a halo effect around the source, when I first came across the quote.
So, in that sense, the experiment is working so far. :)
I thought that the conclusion was an applause light, but didn't consciously mind "holy", at least, the end was sufficiently bad that I didn't feel the need to parse the beginning for problems.