I now suspect that a significant number of people are having a 'WTF is this and why is it on LW?!' response to these posts because the posts do not immediately seem to be related to LW rationality and do not seem to offer obvious benefits (contrast with Jonah Sinick's post offering tutoring help which got positive comments from people who could immediately benefit). This perhaps motivates William_Quixote's comment on this post (and the upvotes it received); in the absence of an obvious purpose for the posts, it might seem like Someone Is Wrong on The Internet. It might not be worthwhile at this point for these posts, but at least in future it might be worth motivating posts whose relevance is nonobvious.

This is a post a post I found exceptionally difficult to write.

-a post

I have no plans of discussing Taubes claims

Taubes's

So what's going on here? I think the answer lies Taubes' eagerness

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Anyway, this comment wasn't intended to seem so down on this: Upvoted; keep it up! :)