Browsing that thread on old!SneerClub, I learned that a few months ago, ScottAa made a jokey post about being in some random “top 50” list of quantum-computing blogs, and the comment thread of that post escalated until he was saying this:

Aleksy #163: Please don’t take this the wrong way, but—I feel like the world would be a better place if you were not part of it.

My reasoning is as follows: when you single out a single UN member state, among all ~200 of them, as being illegitimate and having no right to exist—when, moreover, that state is literally the only thing standing between half the world’s Jews and their violent deaths in a second Holocaust—when it’s obvious to any fairminded person that, if you applied 10% of the same level of legal scrutiny to the founding events of other countries, the UN General Assembly would need to be swept nearly bare—when, finally, you needle a productive scientist over and over, commenting and emailing to ask why he hasn’t replied to you yet, taunting him that if he doesn’t then he’s effectively conceded the argument, etc. etc.—it’s clear that you’re making a negative contribution to the world.

I feel like, if you understood this, you’d see that the right and honorable thing to do would be to kill yourself as quickly as possible.

I hasten to add, however, that I’m not saying this out of any personal animus whatsoever towards you. It’s purely disinterested reason that’s led me to these conclusions. If you respond to me emotionally rather than rationally, that will show me that (alas) you weren’t ready for a logical, evidence-based discussion of these matters.

Never has a man had a more normal one