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The QM sequence was originally posted at overcoming bias, and was later posted here when LW was created. That explains its lack of comments and votes relative to posts made here originally. However, if there's a lack of comments and posts relative to other parts of the sequences (which were almost all originally posted at overcoming bias), then you've noticed something.
If this puzzle exists, I'd guess many people didn't read them because they were turned off by the math early on in the sequence.
I've been ploughing through the sequences in my idle reading time, more or less in wiki order, and yes, these have noticeably less votes and comments than other sequences. The QM sequence is the only place I've seen EY posts with votes of 0 or even -1. This suggests to me a lot less readers. (Perhaps displaying up and down totals, as per Reddit, would help distinguish "controversial" from "nobody cares".)
Controversial is a decent possibility. What EY says IS controversial among physicists, and that may be the source of some of his downvotes.
The lack of comments compared to other sequences doesn't fit that, though.
The QM sequence is also linked to a lot less than other posts, as it tends to be less directly relevant to conversation topics.