The Observer isn’t the Times… but it also isn’t the Inquirer or World Net Daily. But your point is taken. Still, while you’re going to get the “wow, these people sure are weird” reaction no matter what but what you want is a ”… but maybe have they have point” graf or at least not get called “unhinged”. I don’t really have anything against the writer—she does what she does well (the writing is really excellent, I think). And I do think she probably likes the Less Wrong crowd she met. But I think it made the image problem really clear and explicit.
The Observer isn’t the Times… but it also isn’t the Inquirer or World Net Daily. But your point is taken. Still, while you’re going to get the “wow, these people sure are weird” reaction no matter what but what you want is a ”… but maybe have they have point” graf or at least not get called “unhinged”. I don’t really have anything against the writer—she does what she does well (the writing is really excellent, I think). And I do think she probably likes the Less Wrong crowd she met. But I think it made the image problem really clear and explicit.