I miss articles actually written by Tao.

It is classic audience capture. These are more popular than his and his most polemic guest posts are frequently described as well-written by many audiences.

In some sense, it’s a simulacrum of the Internet’s forum experience - broadening one’s own audience necessitates debasing one’s content. But such is life - he now probably has for more readers than before and likely finds that pull gratifyingly attractive.

I also feel like many of the current guest posts have overlapping ideas and arguments and so I get less out of each one of them. Maybe a separate blog for endorsed opinion pieces would be appropriate.