slatestarcodex has deleted his blog

[Anonymous No.15680089]

https://slatestarcodex.com/

NYT was about to dox him. Very /lit/ blog, for the newfags who don't know.

[Anonymous No.15680094]

>>15680089
Scott always seemed like one of those wankers who used their IQ to define their self-worth.

[Anonymous No.15680100]

Very pseud blog you mean.

[Anonymous No.15680107]

>>15680100
That's what I said.

[Anonymous No.15680115]

He's already been doxxed and they can still do it.

SSC is pretty pseud like other anon said.

[Anonymous No.15680121]

Never liked this guy's blog but I find it hilarious how many insane people became so fixated on rubbing him out because he posted something they didn't like

[Anonymous No.15680136]

>>15680089
>NYT was about to dox him.
why

[Anonymous No.15680154]

Blogs in general feel to me to be an antiquated holdover from earlier days Of the internet and I’m always surprised at the amount of traffic some of them still generate. As for starslatecodex I mostly enjoy the content but the commenters are pure pseud wankers Unlike I’ve ever seen

[Anonymous No.15680160]

>>15680136
Because he was questioning the NY Times Covid narrative of "We're all gonna die!". He thought it was just a factual misunderstanding, but crashing the economy and forcing mail-in voting is part of the deep state agenda, so they sent a "investigative journalist" out to doxx his ass. He should have told them to pound sand, but his blog never would have gotten so much traffic if he wasn't a big self-promoter. That was his weakness, and they exploited it.

[Anonymous No.15680161]

>>15680089
>psychiatrist
Psychiatrists can never be /lit/ (except for Szasz)

[Anonymous No.15680173]

>>15680154
That's cuz he promoted his writing on a lot on tech bro forums like HN, so you get a lot of guys with STEM degree who haven't read a book since high school or self-taught Javascript Ninja Rockstars who never even went to school at all. They eat that kinda pseud shit right up.

[Anonymous No.15680194]

>>15680173
>tech bro forums
lol kys

[Anonymous No.15680205]

Someone post his real name

[Anonymous No.15680226]

>>15680154
>an antiquated holdover
They're still the best format for what they are. It's beyond me why so many people who used to write blogs moved to fucking twitter.

[Anonymous No.15680248]

>>15680226
Because twitter is a lot easier. Just look at what the SSC said "Now I don't have to write two essays a week!". If you want to have a successful blog with a decent search ranking, you have to churn out so much fucking content, and if it's political at all, it can and will be used to cancel you. Too much work for little reward.

[Anonymous No.15680281]

>>15680154
blogs haven't been really replaced by social media posts just yet I don't think, so what alternatives are there? going back to printed essays randomly disseminated in libraries, toilets and other public places or something?
I mean social media feeds in general aren't great for long form text and let's not even bring twitter into this

[Anonymous No.15680301]

>>15680089
based
>>15680154
fuck off stupid zoomer, you ruined the internet

[Anonymous No.15680304]

>>15680248
>If you want to have a successful blog with a decent search ranking,
That was never the point of blogs it was to find a likeminded sort of circle of blogs and posters to discuss stuff in a network.

[Anonymous No.15680307]

I cant wait until nyt publishes the article and we get to ruin the life of the (((journalist))) that wrote it

[Anonymous No.15680312]

>>15680094
He was originally a LessWronger. Everyone from that corner of the internet was an IQ wanker like their king wanker, Eliezer Yudkowsky. Imo, the only LessWronger to transcend wankerdom is Gwern. I get the impression that SSC began as a pseudy Gwern imitation.
He and Gwern hung out in IRC with IQ-wankers all day, so really it doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.15680326]

>>15680312
>He was originally a LessWronger.
ewww cringe

[Anonymous No.15680345]

>>15680205
Scott alexander

[Anonymous No.15680354]

>>15680312
Just curious, where do these IRC IQ wankers chill? I spent a lot of time on IRC over the years, never met an IQ wankers, but I mostly chilled with horrible trolls.

[Anonymous No.15680364]

>>15680345
That's not his real name, duh.

[Anonymous No.15680367]

>>15680364
Yeah it is, retard

[Anonymous No.15680385]

>>15680354
The LessWrong channel on freenode iirc.
Yes. I, Anonymous, am outing myself. I lurked there for several months.

[Anonymous No.15680386]

>>15680367
I know that guys writing sucks, but if you had managed to make it all the way to the second paragraph you would have seen:

>“Scott Alexander” is my real first and middle name, but I’ve tried to keep my last name secret.

[Anonymous No.15680391]

>>15680364
tax records imply that it is

[Anonymous No.15680392]

Would it really be so bad if this guy was outed? It's not like he's shouting "gas the kikes" or anything

[Anonymous No.15680402]

>>15680392
Apparently therapists have to pretend to have no outer lives, or some nonsense. Sounds like some credentialist bullshit power pyramid to me.

[Anonymous No.15680407]

>>15680391
Then why would he be crying about being doxxed if he is writing under his real name? I hope you aren't one of these "IQ Fags" cuz you don't seem too bright.

[Anonymous No.15680425]

>>15680392
Probably because we'll find out he's some kind of awful self-promoting internet personality we already know from somewhere else, and this was his side project. Like why did Naomi Fu make such a big fuss about being "doxxed"? Because she didn't want all her fanbois to find out she's trans?

[Anonymous No.15680436]

>>15680391
his real last name has been known for years, it's a typical jew name. He is already for all intents and purposes doxxed, he goes to public events like the Effective Altruism and everyone there knows he's SSC. This is just about the attention an NYT article would cause.

[Anonymous No.15680448]

Why does he live in a bordering home
Is he a cuck

[Anonymous No.15680452]

>>15680094
What was his IQ? Can't be that high judging from his prose.

[Anonymous No.15680454]

>>15680436
Finally, someone realizes this is all a publicity student to maximize the impact of the NY Times coverage. There are three threads about this shitty blog on /lit/ right now.

[Anonymous No.15680466]

>>15680454
>Publicity
Publicity for what? The blog that he's deleted?

[Anonymous No.15680473]

>>15680454
he doesn't want the attention and the NYT are not doing this to be nice to him, they know exactly what they're doing. Also SSC was never shilled anywhere, people just flocked to it on their own

[Anonymous No.15680481]

>>15680466
The blog post that's still up is basically an ad for some novel he's self publishing if you bothered to read it, but I don't blame you if you didn't since the guy's prose sucks.

[Anonymous No.15680482]

>>15680452
Higher than yours.

[Anonymous No.15680491]

>>15680473
>Also SSC was never shilled anywhere, people just flocked to it on their own

No one has organically flocked to anything on the internet in decades. Don't be naive.

[Anonymous No.15680504]

>>15680491
It was a very high quality blog especially around 2013/2014, and the comment section grew to enormous sizes because of his comment policy of allowing anyone to post as long as they were civil.

[Anonymous No.15680505]

>>15680089
Oy vey the jews are going for the shekels
Their livelihoods are at stake

[Anonymous No.15680534]

>>15680089
lmao how fucking spineless can you be

[Anonymous No.15680548]

>>15680436
post name

[Anonymous No.15680561]

>>15680089
>SSC
>/lit/
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
no this guy is peak san fransisco tech worshipper, trying to "disrupt" psychiatry the same way he "disrupted" his personal life- namely with online surveys and polyamory.
I'm glad he's done blogging. Dude is a fucking retard who has been humored by his gay little sycophants for too long.
I actually met him a few times. Weird weird guy. Totally jewish, in the worst sense of the word.

[Anonymous No.15680579]

>>15680466
You can still sign up for his mailing list in case he decides to uncancel himself. Totally not a publicity stunt.

[Anonymous No.15680597]

>If you like this story, you can vote for it on topwebfiction once per day.

Have you voted for SSC's novel once per day, anon? It's the least you can do after he got cancelled!

[Anonymous No.15680682]

>>15680089
>Very /lit/ blog

No, it was actually very reddit. (And no, /lit/ isn't that low yet.)

[Anonymous No.15680924]

>>15680173
The average HN poster is certainly smarter and less of a "pseud" than the average retard here.

[Anonymous No.15680948]

>>15680505
>im so sad, my favourite blogger deleted his blog.. give me money, goyim!

[Anonymous No.15680950]

>>15680561
Polyamory?

[Anonymous No.15680961]

>>15680173
>tech bro
there's nothing lower testosterone than STEM

[Anonymous No.15680976]

>>15680950
it's what they call cucking+gaslighting

[Anonymous No.15681009]

What did he write about that was so controversial as to be doxxed by NYT? Anyone have archives of articles?

[Anonymous No.15681037]

>>15681009
engaged with neoreaction and questioned the intellectual capacity of certain populations

but the real reason is that he has a big(-ish) audience among educated people, and doesn't repeat the party line, which means he would get cancelled even if he had a gardening blog

[Anonymous No.15681045]

>>15681009
He says that NYT were planning to write a positive piece about his blog. I don't get why he didn't just ask them not to include his name.

[Anonymous No.15681051]

>>15681045
lol, you think a journalist will tell you when he will write a negative piece? they'll tell you it will be positive, squeeze as much as they can from you, and then write whatever they want

[Anonymous No.15681070]

>>15681045
He did. ffs the post is like 50 words lol. They told him it was policy to include the real name

[Anonymous No.15681102]

His pseudonym choice was silly. Why use 2/3rds of your real name if you didn't want somebody to find out who you are? Either pick something completely different or just go all in with your real name.

[Anonymous No.15681128]

>>15680505
jesus christ this is beyond shameless

[Anonymous No.15681130]

>>15680154
Lots of great blog posts out there, in particular in tech and science. You do need some aggregator site, be it reddit or usually even better smaller link sharing communities, but then blogs are great. The alternative is social media aka giving megacorps full control over all your publishing.

Humanities are missing out on a lot because they are so focused on Twitter. I see my library girlfriend connecting with other librarians on Twitter and it's all very wonky and awkward.

[Anonymous No.15681983]

>>15680505
oy veyyyyyyyyyyy

[Anonymous No.15682061]

>>15681051
This lmao. All Journos Are Bastards

[Anonymous No.15682079]

>>15680505
Weinstein are the most persecuted people in cancel history.

[Anonymous No.15682107]

>>15680312
>LessWrong
Cringe

[Anonymous No.15682123]

>>15680481
Anon, unsong came out years ago, I don't think he's ever going to publish it. If you don't know something, shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.15682125]

>>15680505
Wasn’t this kikerino just on joe rogan?

[Anonymous No.15682151]

>>15680312
Gwern is batshit insane

[Anonymous No.15682204]

>>15680160
Complete bullshit.

[Anonymous No.15682301]

>>15682151
Nothing wrong about being batshit insane. Newton was insane too.
Gwern's technical articles are pretty good.

[Anonymous No.15682789]

>>15680924
Imagine someone who believes this.

[Anonymous No.15682957]

>>15680089
Huge overlap with the Sam Harris fandom and the LessWrong crowd. Not /lit/ in the slightest. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.15682987]

>>15680089
here is based Jim on the case
https://blog.jim.com/
Come on Scott. Everyone who works for the New York Times is evil, and you cannot appease them, because they hate everyone, including themselves. Being nice to reporters just gives them more opportunity and incentive to hurt people, starting with whoever is being nice to them. You should have encouraged and enabled your readers to take vengeance, not to maximize utility by protecting the next hundred people this reporter will destroy, but because vengeance is the right thing to do, when authority will not provide justice.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » mxvabIoSIE No.15683017]

>>15680392
some people still value their privacy. hard to imagine when you're a little mutt golem groomed by the silicon valley CIA nigger surveillance leviathan

[Anonymous No.15683019]

>>15680226
A lot of blogs tend to have that antiquated "Web 2.0" mid-2000's aesthetic to them (same with forums), which has a kitschy and gimmicky feel to it. Think Windows Vista: it's not as iconic as 95 or XP, but not as modern as Windows 10. It's somewhere in between, it tries to imitate OS X's refined design, but only comes across as a mess that has glossy elements on it.

There's some examples here on what I mean: https://jonathannicol.com/blog/2006/10/21/the-visual-design-of-web-20/
Modern design trends are more about minimal and flat elements.

[Anonymous No.15683050]

>>15683019
>A lot of blogs tend to have that antiquated "Web 2.0" mid-2000's aesthetic to them
imagine going on a website with an antiquated design lmao

[Anonymous No.15683092]

>>15680205
Scott Alexander Siskind

[Anonymous No.15683107]

>>15680089
I mean, he publicly used his first and middle name. How hard would it be to write a Python script to find dudes with that name in Cali?

[Anonymous No.15683126]

Should i mirror his whole website from archive and put his full name on it? Will he sue me

[Anonymous No.15683135]

>>15683050
True, the landing page is stuck in that time period, but the thread view is either charmingly antiquated (if you use serif fonts) or predicted the minimalist Metro/material design that became popular after the mid 2010's (especially if you use the Tomorrow theme).

[Anonymous No.15683282]

Eh, he had rarely interesting articles, but most of the time he cashed in on the "explain simple stuff in needlessly complicated terms for tech bros" gimmick

[Anonymous No.15683289]

>>15680089
Holy fuck please tell me there's an archive holy shit I just discovered it last week and was listening to the Moloch blogpost and hadn't finished it please tell me it's achieved

[Anonymous No.15683367]

>>15683289
someone posted it before >>15678242
>magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c19bfe4a448823919fc515a1d7155891c5655ab3&dn=samizdat%5Fslatestarcodex%5F2020%5F06%5F01.tar.xz
also there is always archive.org

[Anonymous No.15683385]

>>15682987
This guy is unhinged.

[Anonymous No.15683395]

>>15683126
At least send me the link.

[Anonymous No.15683396]

>>15683385
that's a comparatively sane post for him

[Anonymous No.15683402]

>>15683367
thanks do you know if the audio files are dead? I was listening to the Meditations on Moloch post actually, he had posted a link to a read of it.

[Anonymous No.15683416]

this whole shit is

IGNORANT™

[Anonymous No.15683420]

A insectoid spy is the journalist
twitter.com/puiwingtam

[Anonymous No.15683436]

>>15683402
I think it wasn't hosted locally, so if you find the link, it should still be at original address.

[Anonymous No.15683449]

>>15683402
https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/

[Anonymous No.15683456]

>>15680154
>antiquated
How? Post something on social media: lost in the sludge of other posts including yours (no way to preserve and navigate posts), character and formatting limitations, rampant censorship (gone as soon as your account is too -- no where to keep your stuff accessible), etc.

[Anonymous No.15683461]

>>15681070
>people can't read on /lit/

[Anonymous No.15683464]

>>15683449
>>15683436
thanks

[Anonymous No.15683474]

>>15680161
lol based

[Anonymous No.15683526]

>>15680161
Alone was more /lit/ than anyone who actually posts here.

[Anonymous No.15683605]

>>15683367
Please seed

[Anonymous No.15683607]

>>15682125
yes and no.
he was on last year
his brother, Bret was on last week.

[Anonymous No.15683617]

>>15682987
That comment section is really something. Makes /pol/ look relatively benign.

[Anonymous No.15683623]

>>15683456
Hosting your own website+blog is the internet equivvilant of being a private property owner. If you're on social media you're just a pleb who always needs to be mindful of appeasing his masters.

[Anonymous No.15683877]

>>15683367
ok so I downloaded this but how do I browse this?

[Anonymous No.15683985]

"""Journalists""" have been on an increasing incline of doxxing people who stick out from the official narrative and have listeners for whatever reason regardless of their political affiliations, etc. NEVER talk to journalists regardless of which way they say the article is going to go or it will happen to you, too.

[Anonymous No.15684073]

Streisand effect LOL

[Anonymous No.15684096]

>>15683877
.tar.xz is archive, so you first need to extract it. 7zip should be able to do that.
Browsing it is both simple and complicated.
openextracted folder and drag index.html into browser
But the person who archived it didn't crawl it very well, so:
a) it doesn't seem to work without javascript turned off
b) links aren't adjusted it, either fix it with some regex magic or use some userscript to redirect it to correct destination

for those who don't want to torrent it
> anonfiles com 79T5Z4B1oc

[Anonymous No.15684125]

>/lit/ has more respect for pill-dispensers than journalists now
truly this board is dead

[Anonymous No.15684164]

>>15684096
>it doesn't seem to work without javascript turned off
Thanks, that did it.

>links aren't adjusted it, either fix it with some regex magic or use some userscript to redirect it to correct destination
Yeah that's my main gripe with it now. Thought about hosting a https server locally but that's just another pain in the ass. The regex magic sounds promising though.

[Anonymous No.15684197]

>>15684125
>implying worth talking to has ever respected fnord slinging, mob-stoking journalists

[Anonymous No.15684203]

>>15684125
Journalists are the scum of the earth. I would kill every one of them and feel zero remorse

[Anonymous No.15684209]

>>15684125
Journalists have always been despised.

[Anonymous No.15684266]

>>15680089
Just goes to show that even a reddit-tier blog isnt safe

[Anonymous No.15684315]

>>15680205
Charles Sneed

[Anonymous No.15684325]

>>15680160
The NYT now is saying that the BLM protests didn't spread Covid, I say they stopped being apocalyptic about it

[Anonymous No.15684331]

>>15683017
This was genuinely funny

[Anonymous No.15684531]

>>15683985
The one on the left still exists in dribs and drabs, the thing is they lose their careers or get killed. The system is set up to do this whenever someone of character pops up they can't get far. Discredited by the media, investigation blocked, fired, threatened, bribed, killed, etc. Same with the judiciary. Journalists are employed by big media corps which are funded by big industry corps. It doesn't help that journalists are also nepotists and sycophants aiming to get in bed with elite families, politicians, and CEOs. A lot of them are like failed elites too. The stupid ones who can only be trusted to follow simple orders and not manage anything.

[Anonymous No.15684548]

>>15684125
would you rather read
>things I learned while working as a psychiatrist, a blogpost
or
>A List of 11 Best Psychiatrist Memes Ravaging The Internet Right Now, And They're Everything. Here's Why. Page 1/11 [It seems like you're using an adblocker. Here's how to turn it off.]

[Anonymous No.15684559]

>>15680505
He's not wrong though. Cancelling JKR meant nothing because she's already a billionaire. She can just buy a self-sufficient private island and retire for life if nobody wants to work with her again.

[Anonymous No.15684649]

>>15683367
>there is always archive.org
the kikes want that out of the picture too

[Anonymous No.15684677]

>>15684559
... and that's a bad thing. If we abolished private property these literal nazis wouldn't even have the option to terrorize trxns lives, not unless they wanted to starve to death on the street that is.

[Anonymous No.15684807]

>>15680089
>familiar with the last psychiatrist
>ends up getting doxed just like him years later
guy seems like kind of a tard

[Anonymous No.15684920]

Occasionally interesting blog. Mostly just paddling around in a sludge of failed empiricism. Laughing at gigapseud blog commentors is always diverting, but there are plenty of other places to do that.

[Anonymous No.15684992]

>>15681009
Apparently he questioned their "don't worry it's just the flu, Silicon Valley wants to band handshakes, lol, crazy" narrative back in Feb.
>>15684559
And let's be honest, how many of those virtue signallers would stick to their virtues if JKR offered them a big fat cheque of her Potter money for their "community group"?
Of course, she'll just lay low for a while, let a few other sacred goats get slaughtered, then do a exclusive interview with Oprah where she apologizes and says she's "realized' what was wrong. Just in time for the latest Fantastic Beasts spin-off.

[Anonymous No.15685064]

>>15683526
sometimes i go look at his last tweet, like i'm visiting a grave.

[Anonymous No.15685293]

>>15683985
the journos ARE the mafia now

[Anonymous No.15685358]

>>15683526
>>15685064
Who?

[Anonymous No.15685382]

I'm honestly surprised /lit/ is so opposed to SSC. I figured the stuff he writes would be pretty perfectly targeted toward this crowd. The "My Immortal As Allegory For Alchemical Wedding" essay was peak /lit/ shitposting. Is it just the association with internet atheism that pisses everyone off, or what?

[Anonymous No.15685432]

>>15685382
>Is it just the association with internet atheism that pisses everyone off, or what?
That he's pro-capitalist.

[Anonymous No.15685455]

>>15684125
>journalists
propagandists and activists are not journalists

[Anonymous No.15685463]

>>15685455
Is the argument here that there are no, and never have been any journalists?

[Anonymous No.15685468]

>>15685463
no, that is not the argument

[Anonymous No.15685476]

Why are people like this invariable hysterical?

[Anonymous No.15685491]

>the last post we'll ever get was a batch of made up systems of government
it's an alright swan song i guess

[Anonymous No.15685496]

>>15685468
>argument
unjustified statements are not arguments

you sir, have not been arguing

[Anonymous No.15685521]

>>15685358
former blooger called the last psychiatrist

[Anonymous No.15685529]

>>15685455
why not?

[Anonymous No.15685531]

>>15685496
let's follow it
>>15684125
argument
>/lit/ has more respect for pill-dispensers than journalists now, therefore this board is dead
>>15685455
counter argument
>/lit/ does not have more respect for pill dispensers than journalists. The individuals you are referring to as being less respected than Scott Anderson are not journalists, they are activists and propagandists. Therefore, the premise of your argument is unsound.
>>15685463
rebuttal
>ThErE ArE NO JouRnAlIsts EvArrrr????//?//?

my dear, it is YOU who are not arguing, at least in good faith :^)

[Anonymous No.15685744]

>>15685382
I only ever remember reading one of his articles, and it was the one where he explained why it's stupid for edgy atheists to make fun of the Bible for calling a whale a fish. It was actually pretty well-done and it wasn't until much later that I found out the guy was also associated with those same edgy atheists, so I guess his other articles were less reasonable. The message of that one article seemed like the exact opposite sentiment.

[Anonymous No.15685776]

>>15685744
I generally found him pretty reasonable across all of his essays. I can't say I ever read his earliest stuff, so maybe he was more of a fedora pre-2010, but the way he engages with religion has never seemed shallow or stupidly combative. He wrote an entire book about a world where people could do magic by reciting the names of God in Hebrew, and never once delved into an Ernest Cline-esque screed against religion.

[Anonymous No.15685822]

>>15684325
>BLM protests didn't spread Covid
What?

[Anonymous No.15685828]

>>15685822
I haven't seen them say it didn't spread it, but I have seen them quote experts saying that it's worth it to fight against prejudice.

[Anonymous No.15687775]

>>15685744
RationalWiki doesn't like him, if that tells you anything.
He's an online atheist liberaltarianoid, but you can't deduce his way of engaging with ideas from that.
He wrote a good piece about internet atheism: https://web.archive.org/web/20200113090126/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/
The article you read ( http://web.archive.org/web/20200610230130/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/ ) isn't atypical, you may or may not like the others.

[Anonymous No.15688827]

>>15687775
Damn wtf the picture he uses is from a thread I made

[Anonymous No.15689389]

>>15687775
>RationalWiki doesn't like him, if that tells you anything.
well he has credentials it seems

[Anonymous No.15689566]

>>15680173
>>15682789
they're right, though.
I program a lot for my job. I'm a physicist who works in a very computational field. programming makes me want to kill myself 50% of the time for how dull and lifeless it is. Programming - modern programming - is about as stimulating as driving an automatic car. I get to work on interesting problems, so I can push myself through the 30% of my job that is based around it.

Consider the average bugman techbro corporate programmer, then. Not the geniuses who actually solve the interesting problems for their corporate overlords (and for truly interesting problems, corporate usually looks to academia anyway) - I mean the average 80k a year dev ops specialist who graduated from a decent college with a decent grade. The 50% that makes me want to kill myself is 100% of his job. He needs to find a way to cope. What better way to escape from his dreary, lifeless reality than literature?

>>15680924
correct

[Anonymous No.15689589]

>>15680924
the average HN poster is some skinny, socially outcast nerd who has been sold false lies about moving to a 95:5 male-to-female ratio city to work 75 hour weeks "disrupting the industry" before being laid off because their startup failed before jumping to their next "engineering" job where the benefits are unlimited coffee and an adderall dispenser

[Anonymous No.15689619]

>>15680924
The average HN poster is some chud in a flyover state who believes it when rich guys from Stanford tell him college is a "scam". Then the rest are ultra liberal wokes who write bloated Javascript shitware enables social surveillance companies to spy on everyone. Every so often someone smart posts something, but it's a lot less often than you think.

[Anonymous No.15689635]

>>15689619
>chud

[Anonymous No.15689819]

>>15689589
>>15689619

http://n-gate.com/

[Anonymous No.15689838]

>>15680226
Because people stopped reading blogs and started only reading twitter. People only visit like 4 websites now.

[Anonymous No.15689861]

>>15689838
RSS feeds are the only decent way to read a blog anyway

[Anonymous No.15689868]

>>15689819
what did they mean by n-

[Anonymous No.15689930]

>>15689868
idk it's probably some joke about logic gates that only hardware guys get.

[Anonymous No.15689988]

>>15680089
Ssc was based and interesting

[Anonymous No.15690041]

>>15680407
See >>15680386

[Anonymous No.15690083]

>>15681102
He explains that in the post in OP's link. Many people already know is real name, but they are disconnected from his patients and employers. While an NYT article will make his connection to the blog known to thousands of people, including patients and employers.

[Anonymous No.15690115]

>>15682987
>https://blog.jim.com/
>Scott is a smart guy, and a good writer.
>a good writer
The whole thing is funny but this is borderline clownish.

[Anonymous No.15690138]

>>15690115
you might not like his style but it is carefully shaped to be very readable. there is a reason he's so popular

[Anonymous No.15690159]

>>15683985
>get called gay
>immediately being granted a 1 month vacation
This is my dream desu. I'd just need to have dinner once with my friends yo get a decade of vacation.

[Anonymous No.15690171]

>>15690115
It's hilarious how the authors in this blogring and their readers are all calling for people to cancel their NY Times subscriptions. The NY Times promoting a baseless war with Iraq is fine, pushing propaganda for a war in Syria is fine, undermining trust in our institutions by slandering a supreme court justice is fine, but oh no, they might publish the name of a guy writes a pseudy blog, that goes too far!

[Anonymous No.15690191]

>>15685358
A psychiatrist and blogger who used to be a /lit/ favorite back in the early 2010s. Known for his distinctive style and preoccupations, once you get used to his writing he can be entertaining and even insightful.
You can read him here :
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/

[Anonymous No.15690236]

>>15689566
Applied statistician whose job, in practice, turns out to be 90% writing code. Can confirm it doesn't require much intelligence and will slwoly drive you to suicide.

[Anonymous No.15690257]

>>15690138
He's readable indeed, and I find him to be mostly reasonable. I'm almost sad the blog got shot down. But to call him a good writer can only be a sign of poor taste of lack of exposition to actual good writing.

[Anonymous No.15690295]

>>15680154
Zoom

[Anonymous No.15690427]

>>15687775
>The socialist wing of the Democratic Party seems to be working off a model kind of like this, but hoping to change the hamartiology from race/gender to class. Maybe they’ll succeed, and one day talking too much about racism will seem as out-of-touch as talking too much about atheism does now; maybe the rise of terms like “woke capitalism” is already part of this process.
fucking great article. too bad I only heard about him now.

[Anonymous No.15690456]

>>15687775
>Putin's thugs
>Flying Spaghetti monster
>"holy @#$!"
Are you serious? We are mourning this guy? I couldn't even read further.

[Anonymous No.15690512]

>>15680173
>muh academic credentials

[Anonymous No.15691233]

>mfw /lit/ actually calls SSC "pseudy"
You guys don't even know what intellectualism looks like any more, do you?

[Anonymous No.15691403]

>>15690456
>Putin's thugs
you are joking, right? Do you really think that Putin doesn't run Russia like a dictatorship and that he doesn't have "thugs" to do government work?

he also wasn't praising Flying Spaghetti Monster either, if you were smart enough to actually read the context of that section in the article. He was pointing it out as something only possible due to the zeitgeist of the mid 00's new atheism. He's pointing it out as a phenomenon which has all but disappeared and replaced almost entirely with intersectionality.

[Anonymous No.15693063]

>>15691403
Russia is a dictatorship (centralized modern state without "checks and balances" to
contain the executive branch) but Putin is not a dictator ("thug", "warlord", "bully", etc.).
>he doesn't have "thugs" to do government work?
No.

[Anonymous No.15693167]

>>15680089
I knew a guy once who tried to get me to read this. He was a computer programmer who balded at 16, idolised Spock from Star Trek and then became a tranny. That is all you have to know about that tarded blogs readership lmao

[Anonymous No.15693677]

>>15693063
>Putin is not a dictator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya

[Anonymous No.15693746]

>>15693677
She was killed by pro-Russian Chechens, after years of spouting pro-Ichkerian (pro-Jihadi, pro-ultranationalist) propaganda.

[Anonymous No.15694211]

>>15693063
I can't wrap my head around agreeing that a country is a dictatorship but quibbling about calling its central figurehead a dictator.

[Anonymous No.15694247]

>>15680392
He questioned progressive narratives, however gently and politely, and already had to cut off some of his followers on a subreddit to avoid getting his life ruined for it because he lives in San Francisco in some sort of commune or polycule or whatever. If those retards (who read the NYT) find out what he's written they'll exile him from all of his friend groups and ruin his life.

[Anonymous No.15694273]

>>15681009
Talked to Neoreactionaries (if only to eventually refute their ideas), wrote an article about how Trump isn't actually some raging neo-nazi, reviewed a meta-analysis of race and the criminal justice system which effectively showed that the narrative of systemic racism was at best, wildly exaggerated.

Other than that, he mostly promoted stuff about having good epistemology and strong norms around civility in discussions.

[Anonymous No.15694309]

>>15681009
He had a few posts going 'i hate trump, but the media coverage of him is causing lgbtbbq people to commit suicide' during the election, and he has since said people were probably overreacting to coronachan, but he couldn't be sure.

Honestly he is very tame, but he also uses 20 words where 2 would do and consequently even his shortest blog post was something around 2000 words.

I don't mind the guy's centrism, but his verbosity was annoying. Still, it is silly to pull down his blog.

[Anonymous No.15694635]

>>15691233
It's just seditious reddit trannies and astroturfing glowniggers. How can you not realize that at this point?

[Anonymous No.15694665]

>>15694211
"Dictator" is someone who rules with an iron fist, an authoritarian leader. It's a personal characteristic, often used a slur.
To give you an example, Stalin was a dictator, Brezhnev wasn't one, and USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship under both of them.
Putin is a soft-spoken, mild-mannered bureaucrat with moderate (even by Western sensibilities) views and rhetoric.

[Anonymous No.15694722]

>>15694665
Anon, words can have more than one definition. It can be both a slur and a job title. Brezhnev was most certainly a dictator.

[Anonymous No.15694751]

>>15694722
>Anon,
this condescension invalidates your life

[Anonymous No.15694781]

>>15694722
>It can be both a slur and a job title.
The dictator is not a proper equivalent of "the head of state that's not neither a liberal democracy nor a monarchy". It's lazy and reeks of propaganda.

[Anonymous No.15694866]

>>15694781
I just think it's weird that you're totally cool with calling Russia a dictatorship, but apparently calling the leader of a dictatorship a dictator is propaganda. It's a bizarre hill to die on. I can't even imagine the school of thought that generates it.

[Anonymous No.15694901]

>>15687775
>The article you read ( http://web.archive.org/web/20200610230130/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/ ) isn't atypical, you may or may not like the others
I just read this entire thing. His argument is flat, and laughably easy to knock over. What's the great loss here? I truly don't understand. I don't even understand why people would want to dox him, that's the domain of insane leftists and he seems quite transparently in favor of trannies, and insane leftists love trannies more than their own parents (or their fathers at least).

[Anonymous No.15694909]

>>15694866
You can't really slur a political system, but you can bad-mouth a person.
Dictatorship is not 100% correct but nevertheless conveys some information. "Dictator" in this case is just another way to say "baddie", "bully", "hitler".

[Anonymous No.15694916]

>>15680173
>tech bro
imagine how delusional you have to be to believe that tech industry is filled with fucking jocks its like literally 99.99% autistic nerds, a third of which have gone trans

[Anonymous No.15694957]

>>15680173
>>15683526
>>15680094
>>15680100
>>15680089
these posts all need (you)s

have you ever tried reading one of his articles?

they are so long winded that they always drive me to sleep. very low signal to noise writing style, very difficult to tell what he is saying, very difficult to tell ahead of reading the entire thing whether or not an article is worth reading (for all the ones i ever read it never was.).

>>15680154
yeah if blogs are bad then commenters for it are Turbo bad. like the pajeets who leave horny replies on camgirl's facebook pics and then also share cs-101-tier math exercises made into memes and carl sagan quotes.

>>15680312
>>15687775
fucking hell. these people are all the same blob of shitcud mucus diarrhoea thats been eaten up and spit out 1000 times since the start of the internet maybe even sooner. they DESERVE TO BE BULLIED.
if a reasonable connection can be made between you and LessWrong RationalWiki David Chapman Eleizer Yudkowsky whatever matrix then you are part of the sludgeheap

>>15680385 >>15680354
cringe. also, come to #not-math.

>>15683017
stop posting

[Anonymous No.15694977]

>>15685455
based zoomer/late millshit retard that had his """political awakening""" with gaymergate
journalism has always been trash and journalists have always been scum of the earth liked by only other journalism
look up the origins of the term yellow journalism and pulitzer prize

[Anonymous No.15695133]

>>15694901
It's easy to quibble over the conclusion, but I think it establishes either way that the categorization is pragmatic, not epistemic, which is a big deal for a community that's obsessed with being factually correct.
>he seems quite transparently in favor of trannies
He has other opinions too. If you want the insane leftist case against him, read https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander#Political_and_social_views

[Anonymous No.15695165]

>>15695133
>rationalwiki
I've lost all interest. Is every other word prefaced with allegedly or purportedly? I bet it is, these people are hilarious in small doses.

[Anonymous No.15695241]

>>15690257
good writer in a journalistic kind of sense, not a literary one

[Anonymous No.15695245]

>>15690171
everybody is blind to this shit until it touches their own personal subculture, don't be mad that they are losing credibility for the wrong kind of thing, just enjoy it

[Anonymous No.15695251]

>>15690427
too bad the Bernie-wing of the democratic party has been obliterated by the new BLM protests

[Anonymous No.15695270]

>>15695241
He has good prose for his aim, having his blog be easily digested without any prior knowledge. He writes as if talking to a patient.

[Anonymous No.15695293]

>>15690171
Slate star codex literally has a post about this kind of stuff. 'anyone but the outgroup' or something like that.

[Anonymous No.15695310]

>>15695293
https://web.archive.org/web/20200101005442/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

[Anonymous No.15695785]

>>15695165
It's trying to imply more than it says, but it doesn't need those qualifiers.
The tl;dr is that he's willing to engage with neoreactionaries/racists/sexists instead of banning them, agrees with James Damore, thinks Charles Murray has some good ideas, is very critical of social justice at times, and is crankish about the risks of AI.

[Anonymous No.15696848]

>>15695251
The Bernie-wing of the democratic party IS the BLM protests. Kids who just want everything to be handed to them, unironically. Cancel student debt, reparations, free healthcare, no guns, etc etc etc. They want America to be a summer camp.

[Anonymous No.15696856]

>>15696848
nah, nothing is going to be handed to anybody by BLM, only things taken away

[Anonymous No.15696892]

>>15687775
>To truly understand the spirit of the time, you can’t just think of religion as evil. You have to think of it as the ur-evil, without which no other evil would exist. Homophobia? Only there because the Bible says to stone gay people. War? It’s all holy war of one sort or another, whether it’s Arabs vs. Israelis, Sunnis vs. Shias, or the Christian/Muslim “clash of civilizations”. Environmental devastation? Only there because religious people believe God elevated Adam over the animals and told him to exploit them for his own purposes. Poverty? Only because religious people believe in the prosperity gospel that says people get what they deserve.
Based, atheists are just salty brainlets with a personal vendetta about religion.

[Anonymous No.15696994]

>>15681130
Better smaller link sharing commnuites like what? I am only aware of a softdev-related ones (like lobste.rs)

[Anonymous No.15697006]

>>15683617
>I feel bad for Scott Alexander, even though he banned me from his blog for explaining that black people are bad at swimming

[Anonymous No.15697038]

>>15684325
NYT is a thinly veiled state propaganda organ. No more legitimate of a news source than Pravda or Der Stürmer

[Anonymous No.15697039]

>>15697038
What do you read?

[Anonymous No.15697124]

>>15694273
>reviewed a meta-analysis of race and the criminal justice system which effectively showed that the narrative of systemic racism was at best, wildly exaggerated.
link?

[Anonymous No.15697150]

>>15697039
Boethius
Kierkegaard
Goethe

Take the schizoid pill

[Anonymous No.15697316]

>>15697124
Probably this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20200110221516/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

[Anonymous No.15697559]

>>15697316
thanks

[Anonymous No.15697638]

He's an idiot for using his first + middle name as a pseudonym and then openly admitting doing so as well as revealing his location. Did he really think no one was going to find him that way? I have no sympathy for him.

[Anonymous No.15697733]

>>15697638
he was a niche blogger, he just didn't want to be national news with his real name

but yeah, hopefully people will start writing under pseudonym again and not be retarded

[Anonymous No.15697775]

i never read his blog.
could someone give me a tldr on his writing?

[Anonymous No.15697799]

>>15697775
he is just part of le-ebin-internet-rationalism, basically what came out of new atheism. but he was a better writer and more reasonable that most in that subculture. good in depth articles

[Anonymous No.15697808]

even if it was the worst blog in history, for some nyt blogger to try and dox the person is deserving of that entire building being flattened with a moab

[Anonymous No.15697824]

>>15697799
>he is just part of le-ebin-internet-rationalism, basically what came out of new atheism.
oh ok fuck that shit

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » mxvabIoSIE No.15697857]

>>15695241
Unsong is unironically a good book

[Anonymous No.15697876]

>>15697808
they have been doing this to people for years, this is only news now because the guy has a decent following among wealthy silicon valley nerds. but nerds can't fight social games, so they'll take it like bitches and end up thanking the NYT

[Anonymous No.15697890]

>>15697808
Did you have this big of a hissy fit when the WSJ doxxed Zerohedge?

[Anonymous No.15697903]

>>15683017
stop posting

[Anonymous No.15697906]

>>15697638
He knew people would be able to find his real name if they really tried, but that wasn't such an issue. He's a psychiatrist. The main thing is that patients shouldn't be able to find all his political opinions by googling his real name. The opposite direction. That distorts the relationship too much.
Right now the first page of Google results for his first name + last name (no middle name) doesn't have anything linked to his blog, so that's pretty good. But if the top result becomes a NYT article about his blog then it's game over.

[Anonymous No.15697981]

>>15685531
Way to miss his point entirely.

[Anonymous No.15697992]

>>15697890
Yes, disgusting behavior, moab them as well

[Anonymous No.15698000]

>>15697857
what's it about? being a cuck?

[Anonymous No.15698003]

>>15697876
>this is only news now
It's news now because this particular event just happened. This kind of soft censorship via the press is not "new"

[Anonymous No.15698095]

>>15694665
You mistake dictatorship for tyranny. Every single soviet leader was a dictator, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat was the official endlessly repeated and praised state policy. Every single one.
If we speak tyrants, as people who kill, torture and incarcerate opponents at will and/or maintain such a system , every single Soviet leader was a tyrant except Gorbachev.
Both Lukashenko and Putin are dictators and tyrants. Yankovic was a tyrant but not a dictator.
Medvedev was neither, for once.
Why do I even waste my time on midwits.

[Anonymous No.15698099]

>>15698003
yes, but I mean people in this rationalist community are surprised about it and angry that the press in unreasonable with them. but the press has been like this for a long time, it's just their subculture's time on the chopping board now

[Anonymous No.15698150]

>>15698000
Kabbalapunk alt-history about theodicy

[Anonymous No.15698230]

>>15680089
These so-called "journalists" need to be reminded that they also have names and addresses.

[Anonymous No.15698251]

>>15698230
Read about what happened to Naomi Wu. She tried that, and got deplatformed.

[Anonymous No.15698270]

>>15698251
She was naive for thinking that the man and the little guy are governed by the same rules. Also stupid for not doing it anonymously.

[Anonymous No.15698305]

>>15698150
Hm, theodicy is about being a cuck, now that I think about it

[Anonymous No.15698377]

>>15698230
if you publish their names, you'll get banned, if they publish your name, nothing will happen

[Anonymous No.15698433]

>>15694977
Kierkegaard remarked that he could forgive his daughter if she became a whore but could never forgive his son if he became a journalist.

[Anonymous No.15698583]

>>15680089
MSM are a bunch of thugs and need a helicopter ride.

[Anonymous No.15698593]

>>15694901
Could you please knock the argument over for me?
I feel like I disagree with his points there, but I can't quite put my finger on why so I'd like for someone else to put it into words.

[Anonymous No.15698612]

>>15680312
I only read the main body of writing and never interacted with the userbase. Eliezer said cringy retard things a few times, but in general he was apretty smart guy, or used to be. Recently jumped the shark into "weight loss is impossible because I can't put the fork down and I'm going to rationalize it away" territory. The main sequences wasn't so bad, was it?

[Anonymous No.15698891]

>>15682151
how exactly?

[Anonymous No.15699022]

>>15698612
I have always been amused and dissappointed by his obsession with muh AI safety. There are obviously so many personal biases making him rationalize his attachment to it. Very ironic. They spend decades "working" on it without making any measurable progress, whatever that would entail, and they keep coming up with reasons to justify on working on the equivalent of quantum physics using stone-age implements.

[Anonymous No.15699074]

>>15698612
>Eliezer said cringy retard things a few times, but in general he was apretty smart guy
First time I heard about him was in relation to the Rocco's Basilisk and his reaction to it. That was reason enough for me not to put him into "smart guy" category.

[Anonymous No.15699228]

>>15698891
He takes the same meticulous approach to everything he does—vitamin D, LSD, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, GPT-2, terrorism, drug sales, boorus, his browsing history, Touhou music.
It doesn't matter what it is. You can count on an abstract, a homogenously dry style with lots of ampersands, a statistical analysis in R, citations for everything, and a bunch of footnotes and appendices.
He'll link indiscriminately to Wikipedia, TVTropes, LessWrong, and rehosted PDFs of scientific articles, all of them with a thoughtful little icon typeset next to the name.
He'll A/B test legal drugs, illegal drugs, cat drugs, banner ads, CSS, and the phases of the moon.
There's nothing wrong with that as such, but I haven't found anyone else who does that. What kind of mind do you need for it to come naturally?

[Anonymous No.15699259]

>>15699228
Autism. Pure, distilled essence of autism, profound and grave enough to border on non-functioning OCD, but still low enough to actually function so as to be able to communicate.

[Anonymous No.15699261]

>>15683617
So much mental illness in one place.

[Anonymous No.15699278]

>>15699228
>all of them with a thoughtful little icon typeset next to the name
That's done automatically through CSS, not manually.

[Anonymous No.15699290]

>>15699259
Agree 100%, that's why I like Gwern. Optimal autism. I bet he would love the term btw.

[Anonymous No.15699359]

>>15699278
Of course, Gwern is not the kind to leave typesetting to humans. But how many people go even that far? It's something he maintains himself.

[Anonymous No.15699425]

I prefer Hotel Concierge
https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/140529495929/how-to-be-attractive

[Anonymous No.15699462]

>>15699425
poor man's TLP

[Anonymous No.15699550]

>>15697038
>NYT is a thinly veiled state propaganda organ. No more legitimate of a news source than Pravda or Der Stürmer

It has become this, because of you-know-who.

It is astonishing that it fell so far and so fast.

[Anonymous No.15699766]

>>15699462
Hotel Concierge seems like an upgrade from "le everything is narcissism!!! xDDD"

[Anonymous No.15699846]

>>15699766
HC wrote articles twice as long with half as much to say.

[Anonymous No.15699952]

>>15698095
>If we speak tyrants, as people who kill, torture and incarcerate opponents at will and/or maintain such a system , every single Soviet leader was a tyrant except Gorbachev.
Not who you're talking to, don't care about the context of the argument, but Tyrant has a clear definition as someone who usurps power by illegitimate means. Violence and oppression are not necessarily part of what makes someone a tyrant, and only Lenin could be considered possibly a tyrant but I'd argue that much of the society he founded saw him as the legitimate expression of Hegelian will so he was as much legitimate as any King or Emperor claiming their right to rule by divine providence.

[Anonymous No.15699971]

>>15699952
>much of the society he founded saw him as the legitimate expression of Hegelian will
yes the russian peasants were well schooled in Hegelian philosophy(which btw has nothing to do with communism and predicted an endstate of absolute monarchy)

[Anonymous No.15700008]

>>15699952
>Tyrant has a clear definition as someone who usurps power by illegitimate means.
It does have that definition, but it also has other definitions. It's clear which one is being used here.

[Anonymous No.15700560]

>>15699846
nah

[Anonymous No.15700607]

>>15694977
>had his """political awakening""" with gaymergate
my political awakening was Occupy Wall Street, watching Adam Kokesh interview the protesters and finding out how retarded authoritarian leftists actually are.

[Anonymous No.15700644]

>>15695133
>Hereditarianism (aka Jensenism[1]) is a racist pseudoscience that argues mean differences in IQ between human populations (socially constructed races and ethnic groups) are significantly the result of genetics
HAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.15700999]

>>15680089
Never heard of this guy before today, but I just read one of his posts and want to go through his whole body of work. It's on archive.org but isn't that still dying because of the lawsuit involving this fuck-head?

[Anonymous No.15701040]

>>15700999
Archive.org should be fine, they quit doing the thing that made publishers mad and it would be really bad optics to kill them.

[Anonymous No.15701127]

>>15700999

Only the book loaning part is under threat and even if they got the most severe judgement possible they would survive financially. The real danger is that they might have to destroy a large part of their digitized library, some of which only exists there.

[Anonymous No.15701360]

>>15699846
filtered

[Anonymous No.15701383]

>>15700999

At least the basedboy doesn't try to screw my wife when I'm at work.

[Anonymous No.15701489]

>>15681130
>Twitter
How much twitter sucks as a medium for discussion seems to be a constant thread through all of this discussion. The circumstances and cultural shift being what it is a technological solution is the only option. But the general trend has of the internet has been race-to-the-bottom with ever shorter and dumber content, I wonder if there isn't some inherent conflict with the idea.

Perhaps a "long-form twitter" isn't possible because "TL;DR" impatience and illiteracy is the norm. The success of twitter is indeed because it sucks and is stupid rather in spite of it; because it falls beneath the average threshold of tl;dr by design. Meaning it will produce both lots of content and much of it will be read.

[Anonymous No.15701561]

>>15689838
twitter, yt, amazon, and plebbit/boomerbook?

[Anonymous No.15701644]

LessWrong, SSC, and RationalWiki are all cut from the same cloth. The Psuedo-Intellectual discourse coming from the early internet. Eliezer tries to “rationalize” AI into existence, while denying he can lose weight scientifically, while also writing 120 chapters of Harry Potter Fan fiction. Scott writes about stuff like he’s a 3rd year College student. RationalWiki advocates for debunking pseudo-science while still advocating for Jesus mythicism. It’s all so tiring.

[Anonymous No.15701668]

>>15699425
HotelConcierge is very light on insight. He's a burlesque of tlp.

>>15699766
no

>>15699846
yes

>>15700560
hc is an imitator. you're being fooled by his style which imo isnt even very good. he calls himself "the final boss of the internet". hes a late 20s guy who thinks he is smarter and more experienced than he really is.

[Anonymous No.15701673]

>>15701644
LW and SSC have social norms of open debate and epistemic humility, making them the polar opposite of RW.

[Anonymous No.15701691]

i never realized he had such an autismal following. literally a cult following.

[Anonymous No.15701708]

>>15699425
This essay unironically was what broke me out of inceldom

[Anonymous No.15701721]

>>15701668
wow really convincing.

[Anonymous No.15701738]

>>15680385
What is an 'IQ wanker'? What do they talk about?

[Anonymous No.15701935]

>>15701691
I don't know how you look at this thread and thinks it's the SSC readers who are autistic.
>ackhually calling the leader of a dictatorship a dictator is western propaganda