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Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on For FAI: Is "Molecular Nanotechnology" putting our best foot forward? - Less Wrong
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Also I have some worries about the pattern "X is unsupported! What, you have massive support for X? Well talking about X is still bad publicity, really I'm concerned for how this makes you look in front of other people." I'll consider an 'oops, I retract my previous argument, but...' followed by that shift, but not without the 'oops'. Otherwise I do update on X possibly being bad publicity, but not in a being-persuaded way, more of an okay-I've-observed-you way.
I don't consider Drexler's work to be "massive support" for MNT. I think that MNT is controversial. I think that one shouldn't introduce controversial material in a discussion unless you absolutely have to for some of the same reasons I think that Nixon being a Quaker and Republican is a bad example.
I honestly wasn't sure when I posted this whether anyone else here would feel the same way about MNT being non-obvious and controversial. It does seem safe to say that if MNT is controversial on LW, which is overwhelmingly sympathetic to transhumanist ideas, then it's probably even less popular outside of explicitly transhumanist communities.