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Why is HN so obsessed with this guy?

lukasb 6y ago
Because HN wants to believe that the same "throw away what's been done before and reason from first principles" approach that serves them well in engineering can be applied to social problems. (Spoiler: it can't.)
- AssPirate 6y ago
  Ok retard, why not?
  - AssPirate 6y ago
    I'll be surprised if I'm not shadow banned already
    - ketamine__ 6y ago
      Why are you wasting time on this centralized platform. It's sooo outdated.
    - mlthoughts2018 6y ago
      This feels almost like a false flag sort of extreme comment, knowingly violating the rules, just to make it seem like Slate Star Codex supporters are this kind of discourteous, bro-y, insulting aggressive group. Maybe it’s not actually a false flag, but let’s be clear that it utterly doesn’t represent the kind of values most SSC readers subscribe to. While I don’t like the original comment’s criticism of why people like SSC, that in no way justifies this type of extremely inappropriate response, full stop.
- jimrandomh 6y ago
  I don't think that's what Scott is doing. See this post (2017): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...
gweinberg 6y ago
I haven't seen any other HN posts about him. But I think the reason he is "in the news" is that NYT decided to dox him for failing to ban badthinkers.
- ketamine__ 6y ago
  He already published his identity. NYT didn't dox him and he later admitted be overreacted. Why does he deserve anonymity anyway? I don't get it. Edit: Nice to see I'm downvoted for pointing out the facts. I guess I'm a "badthinker" too.
  - chipsa 6y ago
    NYT decided to dox him. He decided that they were going to do so regardless of what he did, upended his own life to minimize the damage that'd occur when his name got released, and did so, in order to ensure that his real name and his pseudonym got linked on his own terms, not theirs. If NYT didn't decide to dox him, the entire second paragraph wouldn't have happened. He deserved pseudonymity for the same reason you or I deserve pseudonymity.
    - ketamine__ 6y ago
      > NYT decided to dox him. Scott published his identity long ago. Scott doxed himself I guess? > He deserved pseudonymity for the same reason you or I deserve pseudonymity. Why? Because you say so?
      - notadev 6y ago
        What is your first and last name?
      - dang 6y ago
        Would you please stop perpetuating this tedious flamewar? Not perpetuating flamewars, and especially not perpetuating them by getting nastier as you go along, is more important than how right you are or feel you are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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twaybtclong 6y ago
Curtis Yarvin, the OG of the cancelled, writes about him a lot, so maybe that's why?
DC-3 6y ago
Because he's a very gifted writer and an insightful social critic whose modes of reasoning and analysis happen to align closely with those most familiar and natural to the average HN reader. (i.e. he does humanities, but for people who use phrases like 'Nash Equilibrium' and 'prior distribution' in the pub)
kortilla 6y ago
Perhaps you could read the article. It appears to answer that very question!
Barrin92 6y ago
because he's Oprah for nerds and there was a whole thing with him complaining about having his name publicly displayed in an article and people in tech whining about the mainstream press is the new hot thing.

Because HN wants to believe that the same "throw away what's been done before and reason from first principles" approach that serves them well in engineering can be applied to social problems. (Spoiler: it can't.)

AssPirate 6y ago
Ok retard, why not?
- AssPirate 6y ago
  I'll be surprised if I'm not shadow banned already
  - ketamine__ 6y ago
    Why are you wasting time on this centralized platform. It's sooo outdated.
  - mlthoughts2018 6y ago
    This feels almost like a false flag sort of extreme comment, knowingly violating the rules, just to make it seem like Slate Star Codex supporters are this kind of discourteous, bro-y, insulting aggressive group. Maybe it’s not actually a false flag, but let’s be clear that it utterly doesn’t represent the kind of values most SSC readers subscribe to. While I don’t like the original comment’s criticism of why people like SSC, that in no way justifies this type of extremely inappropriate response, full stop.
jimrandomh 6y ago
I don't think that's what Scott is doing. See this post (2017): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...

gweinberg 6y ago

I haven't seen any other HN posts about him. But I think the reason he is "in the news" is that NYT decided to dox him for failing to ban badthinkers.

ketamine__ 6y ago
He already published his identity. NYT didn't dox him and he later admitted be overreacted. Why does he deserve anonymity anyway? I don't get it. Edit: Nice to see I'm downvoted for pointing out the facts. I guess I'm a "badthinker" too.
- chipsa 6y ago
  NYT decided to dox him. He decided that they were going to do so regardless of what he did, upended his own life to minimize the damage that'd occur when his name got released, and did so, in order to ensure that his real name and his pseudonym got linked on his own terms, not theirs. If NYT didn't decide to dox him, the entire second paragraph wouldn't have happened. He deserved pseudonymity for the same reason you or I deserve pseudonymity.
  - ketamine__ 6y ago
    > NYT decided to dox him. Scott published his identity long ago. Scott doxed himself I guess? > He deserved pseudonymity for the same reason you or I deserve pseudonymity. Why? Because you say so?
    - notadev 6y ago
      What is your first and last name?
    - dang 6y ago
      Would you please stop perpetuating this tedious flamewar? Not perpetuating flamewars, and especially not perpetuating them by getting nastier as you go along, is more important than how right you are or feel you are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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twaybtclong 6y ago

Curtis Yarvin, the OG of the cancelled, writes about him a lot, so maybe that's why?

DC-3 6y ago

Because he's a very gifted writer and an insightful social critic whose modes of reasoning and analysis happen to align closely with those most familiar and natural to the average HN reader. (i.e. he does humanities, but for people who use phrases like 'Nash Equilibrium' and 'prior distribution' in the pub)

kortilla 6y ago

Perhaps you could read the article. It appears to answer that very question!

Barrin92 6y ago

because he's Oprah for nerds and there was a whole thing with him complaining about having his name publicly displayed in an article and people in tech whining about the mainstream press is the new hot thing.