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So your argument to dismiss this blogpost is guilt by association, am I understanding you correctly?
by cinntaile 6y ago
So your argument to dismiss this blogpost is guilt by association, am I understanding you correctly?
- leesalminen 6y agoYes, this is the current flavor of the month to show off one’s level of internet outrage. See: Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten. It’s funny, I’d never heard of Scott before the HN outrage. I’m now a paying subscriber and have been enjoying his writing.
- TeaDrunk 6y agoI've also enjoyed his writing but I can most certainly see his biases. He has a peculiar way of thoroughly researching some assumptions but then apparently having a complete blindspot to others, which is only made more apparently by how critically thinking all his posts are. I guess that's most people, though, they just rarely do so with the precision and eloquence of scott.
- waxpoeticwhy35 6y agoHave you seen this? https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001 https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001
- TeaDrunk 6y agoNo, I haven't. Thanks for sending this over. I don't know the parties reporting.
- waxpoeticwhy35 6y agoScott Alexander was recently exposed as horrifyingly racist and naive among other things. Just FYI. https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001 https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001
- croissants 6y agoThe blog post's author lists a Ferriss book as one of his "3 favorite books" in a video on his channel, so it's more like "guilt by endorsement".
- BeetleB 6y agoThat's still guilt by association.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoNo. That is not what guilt by association means.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoYes. This article is about how to read a lot of books. In the author’s Youtube channel, he has Tim Ferris talking about speed reading. If the author is holding up that con artist as an exemplar, I will take the risk of skipping this post.