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If anyone is curious about the controversy, here's the NYTimes piece on Scott Alexander: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rational
by civilian 4y ago
If anyone is curious about the controversy, here's the NYTimes piece on Scott Alexander: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod... It's a decent article, and the few attempts at pearl-clutching fall pretty flat.
My only gripe with rationalists is that they suck at running their own conference, CFAR. (:
- 0x_rs 4y agoIf somebody's interested, I would strongly suggest checking out both sides of the dispute and not only that, as the NYT story caused quite some ruckus at the time. 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-... https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times-article?s=r https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-...