While I can't disagree with your statement, that's not what I got as the focus of his comment. The part about code duplication is the last sentence of the comment. Before that he does state that it would be better to write precise readable code, which no one disputes (I hope), but I don't see that as a reason to discount proper comments.

I have written comments as he described where they practically duplicate the code they are describing. But when I do that it's because I'm working with multidimensional arrays and I use comments to remind me what section of what array inside what array I'm currently working on. If I change the structure of the array and don't update the comments then that's my fault.

I was reacting more to the first sentence, where he said that "poor, incorrect, outdated, misleading comments" must be the most annoying aspect of comments. I believe he is right in this regard, but this where I feel he is blaming the tool for someone misusing it.