I'm flattered by the attention this essay still gets! I just wish I understood better why some of my writing is so much more appealing than other writing. Things I designed to be viral, like http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues, don't keep getting HN'ed and reddited like this does. Not knowing what you did right is almost as frustrating as not knowing what you did wrong.
(Okay, so I'm complaining to the choir here.)