Please indicate which particular part of the above do you find objectionable or not up to LW standards. Do you have any evidence that a paranoid attitude like his was ever not indicative of a crank?
I didn't down vote you, but I generally disagree with your pattern match. Moldbug signals self-righteous revulsion ironically since he is mirroring the self-righteous revulsion of the SWPLs to anything that challenges their ideological outlook.
Moldbug has been praised by many people I know from LessWrong as having a good style of writing. For example here:
...The best way to improve the natural flow of ideas, and your writing in general, is to read really good writers so much that you unconsciously pick up their turns of phrase and don't even realize when y
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
(I plan to make these threads from now on. Downvote if you disapprove. If I miss one, feel free to do it yourself.)