even an exceptionally dumb thing for someone on the internet to profess belief in.

Wrong reference class, "someone on the internet", much too broad. Just as your comment shouldn't usefully be called an exceptionally smart thing for a mammal to say, we should refer to the most applicable reference class -- "someone on LW" -- which screens for most simple "haha, that guy is clearly dumb, damn I'm so smart figuring that out" gotcha moments. Shift gears.

The original comment was close to "we'll need quantum and/xor quarks to explain qualia (qualai?)." Not exactly subtle with the "xor" ...