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I hadn't expected you to disagree with that tweet, so I'm clearly getting something wrong. I wrote that in the hope that it would encourage people to read the Sequences, not put them off - I think people imagine it as this million-word work of revelation, but a very large part of what it is is a work of popular science - turning people on to good existing ideas in psychology and philosophy and biology and physics and suchlike. There is a great deal that is original and valuable in there, but I don't think of it as the majority of the material.
The word "original" has positive connotations. And therefore the words "unoriginal" or "not original" have negative connotations.
So, yeah, I don't think you'd encourage anyone to read anything by calling it "not original".
Except on Wikipedia (where it's usually an euphemism for ‘crackpottish’). ;-)
(As someone on a Wikipedia talk page once said -- quoting from memory, “if we aren't allowed to [do X] the allowed band between original research and plagiarism becomes dangerously narrow”.)