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So just now I did a small experiment. I used Google to try to figure out his last name. It was pretty hard, took me a good ten minutes, but not so hard once I w
by ridaj 6y ago
So just now I did a small experiment. I used Google to try to figure out his last name. It was pretty hard, took me a good ten minutes, but not so hard once I went to image search.
On the other hand, once I had his last name, I typed it into Google and I immediately had search suggestions for slate star codex.
So if, as I understand it, the worry was that patients of his would discover based on his actual name that he was writing on the side, well, that cat was well out of the bag NYT or not...
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- chordalkeyboard 6y agoThe results of that experiment are badly confounded by the recent kerfuffle and in particular that experiment yielded the other result previously.
- OscarCunningham 6y agoI tried this when Scott first posted about the NYT article, and the cat was not out of the bag then.
- jamessb 6y agoRobin Hanson had a 2013 blog post titled "Hail Scott Siskind" - the surname was redacted from both the post title and the URL slug sometime between 8 Jan [1] and 24 June 2020 [2] (Slate Star Codex was deleted on 22 June 2020 [3]). So if a patient had googled "Scott Siskind" before the NYTimes contacted him, they may well have found the post linking the name to the blog. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200701000000*/https://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/01/hail-scott-siskind.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200701000000*/https://www.over... [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200701000000*/https://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/01/hail-scott.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200701000000*/https://www.over... [3]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...