Thank you.

It should be noted that this piece hasn't been downweighted off the frontpage

I suspect that dang is trying to extract some previously unobtainable upside from the contrarian dynamic . Mad respect.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

What he is looking for (I presume) is a center-right or centrist to land a thoughtful comment that get upvotes or at least not attract downvotes from anything left of center. (Without leaning on the crutch of credibility/accumulated karma)

Imho constraints make it almost impossible in this thread. Less almost impossible is for a center left to larp a centrist just long enough to land the same comment.

That's a impossibly tall order given my writing skills, but I think you (or eg tptacek/gwern using sockpuppet) could do it ;)