I don’t think there is a don’t-praise-authority norm. Sprezzatura is about not emphasizing your own efforts; other people are allowed to do so because there’s no selfish incentive for them to do so. I think your intuition that the first and second points don’t make a good post is an intuition about what kind of information people expect from a LW post, they usually want it to contain new insights, ideas, or questions, and none of those is the primary focus of praising someone.
That said, I agree with the object-level point of your post that LW 2.0 is cool and we should appreciate the work that went into it.
I don’t think there is a don’t-praise-authority norm. Sprezzatura is about not emphasizing your own efforts; other people are allowed to do so because there’s no selfish incentive for them to do so. I think your intuition that the first and second points don’t make a good post is an intuition about what kind of information people expect from a LW post, they usually want it to contain new insights, ideas, or questions, and none of those is the primary focus of praising someone.
That said, I agree with the object-level point of your post that LW 2.0 is cool and we should appreciate the work that went into it.