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I'm disappointed. Essays like this are supposed to contain at least an off-hand reference to Ayn Rand somewhere.
ETA: This comment being at -1 is making me worried that people are interpreting it as something else than a hopefully uncontroversial gripe about a rhetorical style that takes cheap shots against complicated technical claims by vaguely associating them with disliked political/cultural currents.
He did attack libertarianism, though. It is hard to even see this post as an argument and not a plea to not be associated with "those crazy people".
This may simply be because he is european, I have the feeling the she is not so well known/influential on this side of the atlantic. (My only evidence is that I first heard about her on Scott Aaronson's blog, incidentalliy where I first heard about Overcoming Bias, too.)
He's perfectly familiar with the works of Ayn Rand - as knb says, I guess he felt that the reference to libertarians suffices to ensure that the audience understand that singularitarians aren't the sort of people you want to be associated with.