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Cade Metz is the same hack who tried to smear Scott Alexander. This guy is the personification of journalistic malpractice.

• jglamine 3y ago
  Yeah, I was confused because I felt like the article didnt do a good job of clearly stating Hilton's beliefs - it was meandering around. Felt off. Then I saw the Cade Metz byline at the end and became instantly sceptical of everything I had just read. Metz is more interested in pushing a nerative than reporting the truth. He doesn't outright lie, just heavily implys things and frames his articles in a misleading way.
  • cma 3y ago
    > He doesn't outright lie, just heavily implys things and frames his articles in a misleading way. Sounds like Scott's methods on neoreactionary and eugenics stuff.
• alphabetting 3y ago
  I have no clue but could be more a problem of his assignments and framing from NYT editors. His book on history of AI was very good.
• tivert 3y ago
  > Cade Metz is the same hack who tried to smear Scott Alexander. This guy is the personification of journalistic malpractice. He didn't "smear" Scott Alexander. That's just the hit-job framing pushed by Alexander's fans, who were mad he didn't write a puff piece and they couldn't just make up rules on about stuff on their websites (e.g. about using people's self-disclosed real names) and have the rest of the world be obligated to follow them.
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  • Manuel_D 3y ago
    It went well beyond merely "not writing a puff piece". Among other things Metz claimed that Slate Star Codex espoused neo-reactionary views, despite Scott's repeated rebukes of that ideology.
  • red_admiral 3y ago
    As far as I remember, the controversy started like this: the person in question is called Scott Alexander Siskind (which he has said himself publicly in his first post on the new ACX). In his previous work as a psychiatrist as a hospital, he went by Scott Siskind (which seems to be the name he uses with family, on identity documents etc), whereas in rationalist circles and his old blog SSC he went by Scott Alexander. He has explained why it is a problem for a psychiatrist to have a known identity beyond the usual "blank slate", that his clients can project onto. Indeed, his real name being associated with his online one led to him having to leave his former job (albeit more "by mutual agreement" rather than "fired" as I understand). It seems that the NYT, despite having a "real names" policy, is more than willing to bend it when it is convenient to them (for example they are more than happy not to mention birth names of transgender people even if they haven't gone through a full legal name change process). But they weren't willing to do it in this case, just referring to "the rules". The cost of this was that Scott lost his job (although he now makes more on Substack than he used to as a full-time psychiatrist), and the benefit ... I really don't see what benefit there is for NYT readers to know the surname of Scott-the-psychiatrist, when the article was about Scott-the-rationalist.
• whimsicalism 3y ago
  Scott Alexander needs no help in digging his own holes.