tl;dr: Rationalist bloggers like Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky produce extraordinarily long posts that mistake verbosity for thoroughness, piling on detail and nuance rather than interrogating their initial assumptions or broadening their intellectual sources. The author argues this style lacks wisdom—the discretion to know what's worth pursuing and saying—and reflects a community bias against common sense and tradition, where sheer volume of writing on heterodox ideas is treated as evidence of their merit.