With due respect to those involved, this is not "upper echelons of society", this is a set of people highly respected in a small and isolated bubble.

This is a semantic distinction. They're much higher status than most people in mainstream society, the same is not true of most LWers. That's what I meant.

It all depends on the baseline, but these advantages don't sound huge to me. Going to a magnet school and to Swarthmore is nothing extraordinary.

The more significant thing was growing up around my father: that gave me a large advantage over the people who I went to school with as well.

But even putting that aside, what fraction of LW commenters do you think had better environmental conditions than I did? In particular, what about yourself?

And what evidence do you have to support this view?

There are surface indicators, e.g. I have a PhD in math, which isn't true of almost any LWers. But even stronger than that, I've met with a number of elite mathematicians (advisors of multiple Fields medalists, etc., professors at the Institute for Advanced Studies, where Einstein, Von Neumann and Godel were, etc.) who have expressed high regard for me as a thinker.