Here's something to pick our collective spirits up:
According to Google's infallible algorithms, 20% of the content on LessWrong.com falls within the 'Advanced' reading level. For comparison, another well-known bastion of intelligence on the internets, Hacker News, only has 4% of it's content in that category.
Strangely, inserting a space before the name of the site in the query tends to reduce the amount of content that falls in the highest bucket, but I am told that highly trained Google engineers are interrogating the bug in a dimly lit room as we speak, and expect it to crack soon.
I thought it was for humour actually. Demonstrating the problem he was talking about in the very sentence he was talking about it..
That was the intent. I probably could've done it better though.
I agree with that, but the readability metric doesn't seem to deduct that much for grammar. Instead it just looks for long sentences, then docks for that. I don't think that it would actually be able to detect a long but readable sentence, and deduct fewer points for it.