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It's worth your time (and extremely entertaining) to read Sarah Jeong's twitter commentary on this piece. She does a really nice job of highlighting all of the

by moyix 10y ago

It's worth your time (and extremely entertaining) to read Sarah Jeong's twitter commentary on this piece. She does a really nice job of highlighting all of the places where basic journalism, asking for outside expertise, or really any shred of skepticism and tough questioning would have killed the story: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/744950977090838528 https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/744950977090838528

grw_ 10y ago
On the contrary, you'll get a lot more out of reading the article without preconceptions. I don't think it's really worth reading someones comments about an article made before they had even finished reading it.
- moyix 10y ago
  Sure, you should absolutely read the article first! But I found that even after reading the article it was very valuable to read a journalistic perspective on the reportage. It's also really interesting to contrast this story with the recent piece in The Atlantic about the provenance of a papyrus that mentions Jesus had a wife: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbelievable-tale-of-jesus-wife/485573/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbe... The reporter does outside research, solicits opposing points of view, and generally is very diligent about trying not to be snowed. And, tellingly, he doesn't use unfamiliarity with the field as an excuse not to investigate Compare with this article: "From time to time during those months, I wondered what if, in some brutally postmodern way, the true identity of Satoshi could never be fully ascertained? What if Wright had every single element necessary to prove himself, but somehow couldn’t? Anonymity – or at least pseudonymity – is an essential part of the cryptographic world."
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It's worth your time (and extremely entertaining) to read Sarah Jeong's twitter commentary on this piece. She does a really nice job of highlighting all of the

by moyix 10y ago

grw_ 10y ago
On the contrary, you'll get a lot more out of reading the article without preconceptions. I don't think it's really worth reading someones comments about an article made before they had even finished reading it.
- moyix 10y ago
  Sure, you should absolutely read the article first! But I found that even after reading the article it was very valuable to read a journalistic perspective on the reportage. It's also really interesting to contrast this story with the recent piece in The Atlantic about the provenance of a papyrus that mentions Jesus had a wife: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbelievable-tale-of-jesus-wife/485573/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbe... The reporter does outside research, solicits opposing points of view, and generally is very diligent about trying not to be snowed. And, tellingly, he doesn't use unfamiliarity with the field as an excuse not to investigate Compare with this article: "From time to time during those months, I wondered what if, in some brutally postmodern way, the true identity of Satoshi could never be fully ascertained? What if Wright had every single element necessary to prove himself, but somehow couldn’t? Anonymity – or at least pseudonymity – is an essential part of the cryptographic world."
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