On the Doylist side, it's here because it was linked from Scott Siskind's response to the NYT article about himself: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/state

On the Doylist side, it's here because it was linked from Scott Siskind's response to the NYT article about himself: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times-article https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-... I read them in that order, and the OP article at least had context that way. It's in part deliberately bad for rhetorical reasons, since it's a call to arms asking for more people to write, just write, good or bad. It's art-prose in the vein of David Foster Wallace. (Edit: I totally meant Samuel Delany)