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It reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate...

at the time I thought Drexler's arguments were compelling and that Smalley was out of touch and not taking Drexler's arguments seriously. Almost 25 years later Drexler's research program has gone nowhere, a fact that that the Wikipedia article doesn't mention but that I think is critical for evaluating that debate.

I'm automatically skeptical of people who make arguments that there is one way to interpret things that sound really pat

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/honestly-its-probably-the-phon...

or the Lenzenweger-Claridge "debate" on schizotypy (categorical v dimensional) where Lenzenweger makes a case which is much more vivid and compelling than Claridge does because Lenzenweger wrote a monograph and Claridge edited conference proceedings.

So I am automatically skeptical about positions like the one in the paper above because I've been burned so many times by them.

this is from the guy who said climate change is "mostly beneficial" and has an interview with jordan peterson

lol