I like the use of rhetoric in "Explain/Worship/Ignore?". It starts with a story, which is a nice and concrete way to draw the reader in. It also uses a computer control convention combined with underlining to repeatedly draw attention back to the main point. And then there's this little gem:
We can hit Explain for the Big Bang, and wait while science grinds through its process, and maybe someday it will return a perfectly good explanation. But then that will just bring up another dialog box. So, if we continue long enough, we must come to a special dialog box, a new option, an Explanation That Needs No Explanation, a place where the chain ends - and this, maybe, is the only explanation worth knowing.
There - I just hit Worship.
However useful the content, what are some examples of the best nonfiction writing on Less Wrong? Are there pieces you think are as good as recent classics of essay form like I Think You're Fat or Lies We Tell Kids? For example, I like Yvain's The Apologist and the Revolutionary.
Which pieces would you nominate as some of the best nonfiction writing on Less Wrong?