"lol no" is not a respectable response period. Need I remind you, you called the other guy "absolutely ridiculous". The fact that you are buddy buddy with some elites does not excuse you from intellectual obnoxiousness. And you are further ignoring the specific fact given that there are TCS academics who likely disagree with your opinion and disingenuously conflating that fact with the personal fact of a few others having had entertained your personal views on the matter in order to dig into your positionality on this forum with a total stranger. That toxic ad hominem and status-based behavior tells me you are not of their caliber as a responsible intellectual. If you yourself are an academic you should be ashamed of the immature and unenlightened move you just made, but I should have seen it coming given your initial behavior toward the other person whom you disagreed with anyways.

You're also failing to comprehend my passing comment about professors as a minimum criterion for the diversity of what reasonable opinions on the issue ought to like. I said it order to increase an open minded discussion, whereas you then used your familiarity with academics to validate your specific views. There's a world of difference there already, and metacognitively yours is the problematic one.