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Have you considered the possibiltiy that some people actually found this useful?
You see to be assuming that if someone judges something to be useful, that is the last word on the subject.
I am assuming that if someone judges something to be useful, they are likely to upvote based on that. This is an alternative hypothesis to the one presented in your comment, that "aspiring rationalists" upvoted this because it is a "pandering, dumbed-down idea" that "do[es]n't really solve problems or challenge them".
Not really differrent. If you pander to someone by presenting dumbed-down ideas as profound, they are liable to like them and judge them to be useful. People judge junk food to be worth eating, after all.
Are you arguing that judgments of usefulness have, in this case, (and others?) been distorted by the halo effect? Or have I misunderstood this comment?