I just love this. LessWrong is so blatantly self-conscious. I don't get rebuttals when I make comments like this, I get downvotes, inferential silence, and the inferential gap of a request for clarification. If what I say is so obviously wrong (if I'm reading the inferential silence right), I have to wonder why nobody's really reached out to say-so yet. It's really a ton easier to believe that a community of aspiring rationalists is self-conscious about their collective identity rather than that I'm just not appreciating the beauty of the mechanism. I'd love to appreciate the beauty like everyone else, but I'm just way too aware of the flaws.

Feel free to interpret this as a request to clear up inferential silence, but it's really not. LessWrong is self-conscious about its identity. I'm just stating my amusement.