I’m not familiar with this writer or the writer this is about so can someone help me out with something? This article is fawning over this Scott person, talks about how the audience is more intelligent than average and about how ‘impeccably sourced and credentialed’ this Scott person’s arguments are.

Am I missing an in joke somewhere or do people actually write like this?

Scott Alexander, https://www.astralcodexten.com/ is one of the most influential bloggers in tech spaces.

I was a keen reader, but don't follow so much anymore.

That said, I don't think his blogging influence is that large, but whose is?

He's likely fawning over Scott because he wants the post to read by readers of Scott.

"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"

Idk, the whole article is super weird, even though I agree with the point