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That would kind of require that I spend my time reading dozens to hundreds of blog entries espousing a mixture of basic good sense and completely unfalsifiable theories extrapolated from pure mathematics, just so I can summarize them in terms of their most surprising conclusions.
EDIT: The previous comment is not meant as personal disrespect. They're just meant to point out that treating Eliezer's Sequences as epistemically superlative and requiring someone to read them all to have even well-informed views on anything is... low-utility, especially considering I have read a fair portion.
I agree with all that, actually. My original point was not that Eliezer was right about everything, or that the Sequences should be canonized into scriptures, but that the conclusions are far enough from the mainstream as to be easily dismissed if presented on their own.
Which ones?