I've already seen plenty of comment here on just how awkward this post is to be so early in the Sequences, and how it would turn people off, so I won't comment on that.

However: Seeing this post, early in the sequences, led me to revise my general opinion of Eliezer down just enough that I managed to catch myself before I turned specific admiration into hero-worship (my early, personal term for the halo effect).

I seriously, seriously doubt that's the purpose of this article, mainly because if Eliezer wanted to deliberately prevent himself from being affective-death-spiraled this article would read more subtly.

That said, if it is agreed that it would be good for a post like this to exist early in the Sequences (that's a pretty big if), I would hope that it could be written to invite fewer pattern-matches to the stereotype of "socially-oblivious, obsessed-with-narrow-intellectual-interest geek/nerd/dork".