I was going to say "Come on LW! Obvious troll is obvious." but then I remembered this recent post... This person appears to take pleasure in being downvoted consdering how much it is happening. Moreover, they aren't curious as to what norms they're violating to receive so much downvoting indicating some awareness. Their username is automatically controversial, but it can't even be a plausibly effective advocacy account for 9/11 conspiracy beliefs because then they would be polite the other rhetorical dimensions, so as to appear likable and be more effective at persuasion. Admittedly, many of the beliefs they express are somewhat common, but they express too many of them too densely and with too much half-accurate background knowledge for it to be plausible. If you look at their other comments you'll see them on a wide variety of topics, all of them dumb. Generally stupidity goes with a lack of intellectual passion in weird areas, which displays itself as ignorance and a tendency towards silence. Plus, 911truther is responding line-by-line to too many responses - there's no sense of measured consideration or update delay, just the glee of someone who is being argued with by people who don't realize that in doing so they are feeding a troll. So a kind of interesting question here is who is behind the troll account? (It is a pretty good job if you stop and think about it. I mean... who trolls on the subject of genetic algorithms with this much plausibility?) But a more educational question is why are there so many responses, when we could have just downvoted to -10 and had one or two responses providing epistemic warnings to readers who might not understand, and then moved on? Is it the pleasure of scoring points on someone who is wrong? Is it a mistaken presumption of good faith because so many on LW write in good faith? I'm serious here. I'm honestly interested in LW's radar for trolling. Troll radar seems like an important epistemic skill that many of us lack, a

You are self-identifying as a 9/11 "truther", which is signalling to us that you are a crank with a persecution complex. The fact that you subsequently verified delusions of persecution is just digging yourself into a deeper hole.