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Communities form because they repress the incompatible. Particularly on the Internet, where it's easy to restrict who can participate, people tend to agree not because they persuade one another but because they seek out and associate with like-minded people.
Obviously Eliezer thinks that the people who agree with the arguments that convince him are intelligent. Valuing people who can show your cherished arguments to be wrong is very nearly a post-human trait - it is extraordinarily rare among humans, and even then unevenly manifested.