The site comment equating the strong a-Santa position with cold oatmeal, gray pajamas, and a cheerless disposition made me think of Eliezer Yudkowsky's essay ab

The site comment equating the strong a-Santa position with cold oatmeal, gray pajamas, and a cheerless disposition made me think of Eliezer Yudkowsky's essay about joy in the merely real--http://lesswrong.com/lw/or/joy_in_the_merely_real/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/or/joy_in_the_merely_real/ It seems applicable to the article as a whole, as well as most of the reactions to it.