In Reddit's wild-west era (pre-2017-ish), it used to house many 'Matt Levines'. They'd be resident greybeards of their respective subreddits. Reddit 'had' solv

In Reddit's wild-west era (pre-2017-ish), it used to house many 'Matt Levines'. They'd be resident greybeards of their respective subreddits. Reddit 'had' solved the 2 main conundrums of 'Matt Levines'. If you're in demand, you don't have the time to be blogging. If you're in demand, you don't want your public persona to low effort comments. But reddit wasn't a job, it was leisure with a pseudo anon persona. Its status as a pretty-filter-on-4chan meant that greybeards could offload their writing by linking to 4chan. Alas, in trying to make it appeal to the mainstream, Ohanian killed the golden goose and reddit became a sanitized quora-tiktok analogue. Gwern himself runs a couple of niche subreddits which occasionally see such grey-beards stepping in. But, the website is clearly in decline. IMO, this article comes a little late. Substack is the killer-app for Matt Levines. Substacks by Razib, Asianometry, Sebastian Raschka, Dominic Cummings, etc. rub shoulders with Matt Levine in their respective fields. I'm not rich enough to be paying $100/month across different substacks. But I occasionally get a 1 month 'binge-subsription' to my favorites. There is a lot of gold there. ____ Since folks are doing recommendations, I'm going to add a few across different platforms. - Frank Stephenson (Jonny Ive of car design) - Bill Bishop. (China expert. Stratchery's co-worker) - Stewart Hicks (Professor of Architecture at UIC) - Kenji (food. duh) - Healthcare triage (Distinguished Pediatrics professor. Dumbed down, but still good)