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I've had this point of view for years; I would love to refine, abandon, or update my perspective as necessary. Please tear into it!

I think he's telling you to do that work yourself, because he doesn't want to do it and he's also not the best equipped to do it either.

So..."I know you're wrong but I can't/won't say what about, how or why I know it, or otherwise back up my claim"?

This sounds like just another way of saying "I don't like your conclusions, but I can't see a good way to refute them."

It's a very long argument and not easily structured into claims. It takes a lot of time to engage with such arguments.

This sounds like just another way of saying "I don't like your conclusions, but I can't see a good way to refute them."

No, I don't think so. It sounded more like "your conclusions are not new and wrong, but to refute them would require more effort than I'm willing to invest in replying to a rando's internet comment," which is a totally legitimate stance.

It's sort of like coming across someone in a forum who claims to have invented a perpetual motion machine, noting that they lack fundamental knowledge, but declining to volunteer to be their Physics 101 teacher.

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