thank you for sharing. i typically like his writing but didn't find this one terribly insightful.

however, from his follow-up post https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comment...:

> When people insist on the confusing and inappropriately-strong version, I start to suspect that the confusingness is a feature, letting them smuggle in connotations that people would otherwise correctly challenge.

i find this comical because it reads like a slightly-differently-worded POSIWID argument :)