I strongly upvoted this article because I believe that it is incredibly important for EA to be able to point out the proverbial emperors lacking clothes. I would have preferred for the tone to be more reserved, but overall the OP has provided a large amount of citations, examples, arguments and evidence to back up their critique. It also matches with my experience of your writing on my area of expertise(physics), which features misleading distortions and excessive overconfidence.
I think as the founder of rationalism, you benefit from a large population of fans that are willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and be biased towards your positions, and for the intellectual health of the community this needs to be balanced with substantial, evidence-based skepticism and critique, a standard which I believe the OP has lived up to here.
I strongly upvoted this article because I believe that it is incredibly important for EA to be able to point out the proverbial emperors lacking clothes. I would have preferred for the tone to be more reserved, but overall the OP has provided a large amount of citations, examples, arguments and evidence to back up their critique. It also matches with my experience of your writing on my area of expertise(physics), which features misleading distortions and excessive overconfidence.
I think as the founder of rationalism, you benefit from a large population of fans that are willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and be biased towards your positions, and for the intellectual health of the community this needs to be balanced with substantial, evidence-based skepticism and critique, a standard which I believe the OP has lived up to here.