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Thanks for pulling that up. I tried reading through the entire post, but I became confused at several points. Might be because I haven't read the previous posts in that particular series. Or maybe I'm just overly tired. I'll take another crack at it tomorrow.
From what you quoted, I do have to positively update my degree of belief in the "Eliezer is a mathematical Platonist" hypothesis. It's weak-medium evidence, but still evidence. I think much stronger evidence would be if he actually identified as a math realist. If he said, "Hey guys, I believe the natural numbers exist in a mind-independent, non-spatiotemporal way." and proceeded to explain how to meshes well with reductionism, naturalism, etc.
If someone at in contact with him sees this and could ask him for me, that'd be awesome.
Eliezer also wrote multiple times that he's an "infinite set atheist". I'm not sure that's actually compatible with mathematical Platonism. (The way I understand it, at least.)
Also, see How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3.