Getting Eulered

Coins/popularizes 'getting Eulered' -- being attacked on a non-mathematical belief with sophisticated math you can't follow, unable to tell a devastating critique from dressed-up sophistry. Framed by the apocryphal Diderot/Euler debate, it lays out the trade-off (permanent fixable un-rigor vs. letting anyone with a math BA push you around), works through Fisher on smoking/cancer and Glymour on IQ, and offers the heuristic of 'routing around' the objection -- figure out what it's trying to prove and whether your position survives on independent grounds (the lead->IQ->crime consilience passage illustrates convergent evidence). A clean, citable, named-concept epistemics essay whose resolution is admittedly partial ('not a very satisfying solution').

Quality 72 · Strong. A memorable, widely-recognized coinage with a genuinely useful core skill, sharply written. Held in Strong (not Excellent) because Scott concedes the heuristic is incomplete -- a 'toolkit' gestured at rather than delivered. Above the mid-tier on naming + utility; below the 80s reserved for fuller epistemics classics.

Claude’s paradigm shift 60 · Notable shift. Naming and dramatizing the math-as-intimidation phenomenon was a fresh frame at the time, though the components (consilience, correlation-not-causation, motivated sophistry) pre-existed. Notable shift.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. 'Eulered' became modest within-rationalist vocabulary; no material-world effect. Small community/within-blog influence.