I think that's a fair criticism. But you're making it deep in a subthread that started with an entirely different and much less fair criticism of a different part of what he said.

I agree 100% that I'm not giving a "justification why the heuristic of seeing those things as a sign of increased rationality is useful".

My answer is that I never intended for what I'm writing to be useful in this way.

I think it becomes anti-useful if you use it as a set of pointers about what is more "rational".

I indicated this much in my "notes", as clearly as I could.