I expect you would have rightly criticized the OP for bringing up Gwern despite him being such a noncentral example.
Hmmm… I’m not too sure of this. My own intuition is that it’s more of an “isolated demands for rigour” thing, and that he would applaud such a post due to his own agreement with it, and not look into its quality too closely. I’d love to be wrong, but over years of dealing with people of this sort*, I have found that even my least charitable interpretations of their behaviour tend to be overly optimistic to the point of seeming outright naive in hindsight.
*meaning, to an approximation: stereotypical redditors of the r/atheism kind. This has to be understood rather broadly though since many people of this sort have been turning into neo-tradcaths or orthobros lately, and don’t seem to be any better for the change.
Hmmm… I’m not too sure of this. My own intuition is that it’s more of an “isolated demands for rigour” thing, and that he would applaud such a post due to his own agreement with it, and not look into its quality too closely. I’d love to be wrong, but over years of dealing with people of this sort*, I have found that even my least charitable interpretations of their behaviour tend to be overly optimistic to the point of seeming outright naive in hindsight.
*meaning, to an approximation: stereotypical redditors of the r/atheism kind. This has to be understood rather broadly though since many people of this sort have been turning into neo-tradcaths or orthobros lately, and don’t seem to be any better for the change.
Edit: yep, it’s isolated demands for rigour