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So the lesson for those who maintain anonymous or pseudo-anonymous identities online- As your pseudonym's popularity grows, chances increase that someone will be interested in unmasking your identity. The only solutions are to reduce your pseudonym's visibility or staying fully anonymous in the first place.
So the New York Times cost him his job?
> And now that I’ve publicly admitted privacy is important to me – something I tried to avoid coming on too strong about before, for exactly this reason – some people have taken it upon themselves to post my real name all over Twitter in order to harass and threaten me. Has anybody applied the Dark Forest metaphor to internet publicity? It's fascinating (horrifying) how simply catching the attention of too big a piec…
One strategy might be to not hit the self destruct button prematurely. Far more people have read and shared his blog post about being doxxed than have read the NYT article.
I would like someone with the funds to do so to simply become his patron, and give him a salary to do what the hell he likes, ala medieval Europe. He’s got to have enough very wealthy fans that this is realistic?
I am under the impression that this is essentially what Substack offered him if he started writing on their platform?
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These days it might be possible to "cancel" someone for something that they didn't even say/do, although I'd hope that the victim could bounce back once the mob moved on. Of course, you could also get killed crossing the street.
> These days it might be possible to "cancel" someone for something that they didn't even say/do It always has been. And, often the “cancelling” has been total and irreversible, not, as it often is with the “cancel culture” of recent complaints, just a reduction in current popularity with a particular segment of society (frequently accompanied by profitable celebrity status with an opposing and at least roughly equiv…
> It always has been.
This is a significant plot point in Musashi. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musashi_(novel) )
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These days it might be possible to "cancel" someone for something that they didn't even say/do, although I'd hope that the victim could bounce back once the mob moved on. Of course, you could also get killed crossing the street.
> These days it might be possible to "cancel" someone for something that they didn't even say/do It always has been. And, often the “cancelling” has been total and irreversible, not, as it often is with the “cancel culture” of recent complaints, just a reduction in current popularity with a particular segment of society (frequently accompanied by profitable celebrity status with an opposing and at least roughly equiv…
this is wildly untrue. ted bundy escaped police custody (from being charged with multiple murders), moved a couple states, and kept raping and murdering for years. this was 50 years ago.
if someone catches you on video on a field trip like the covington high kids, you might get death threats of such credibility that your school will have to shut down and youll have to sue major "news" networks because their "reporting" was so bad it was tantamount to libel. a grown adult celebrity called them nazis and wanted them doxed.
how can you in any seriousness claim cancel culture now is the same as even 10 years ago, much less 100 or more?
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I think this doesn't really answer the question, though. Psychiatrists like to do X - is that because they follow a cargo cult of other psychiatrists who do X, or because there's empirical evidence that not-X is bad for patient outcomes (or bad for doctor outcomes - he has repeatedly mentioned concerns over his physical security)? This is exactly the kind of question I'd expect SSC to tackle thoughtfully on his blog…
Consider therapists who have you lie on a couch vs those who have you sit in the same style chair, as an equal. Some therapists position themselves as an authority figure for their patients. If they were to open up about themselves, the patient might think they're incapable after seeing the therapist has doubts in their own life. This has advantages and drawbacks. It may be more efficient in earning trust, thus helpi…
> Some therapists position themselves as an authority figure for their patients.
It is not obvious that the person who gets to recline while the other person must sit is the one with lower status or authority.
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my original thesis was, and I got quite a lot of flack for it at the time, that it's going to mightily piss his patients off if they ever figure out that he's blogging about them, if only in anonymized form. I think this really is the issue here with his employer, and I honestly always found it extremely weird, maybe unethical that he wants to avoid his patients figuring out that their stories may appear on a public…
Ah. Thank you! That’s an entirely reasonable theory that fits the data. I didn’t realize he blogged about his patients. Do you happen to know of any examples of articles he published along those lines? Now I’m curious what he said...
here's one, I don't know if he put that preface on all of them, apparently he fictionalises them and mixes them up.
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Consider therapists who have you lie on a couch vs those who have you sit in the same style chair, as an equal. Some therapists position themselves as an authority figure for their patients. If they were to open up about themselves, the patient might think they're incapable after seeing the therapist has doubts in their own life. This has advantages and drawbacks. It may be more efficient in earning trust, thus helpi…
> Consider therapists who have you lie on a couch vs those who have you sit in the same style chair, as an equal. > Some therapists position themselves as an authority figure for their patients. It is not obvious that the person who gets to recline while the other person must sit is the one with lower status or authority.
So the lesson for those who maintain anonymous or pseudo-anonymous identities online- As your pseudonym's popularity grows, chances increase that someone will be interested in unmasking your identity. The only solutions are to reduce your pseudonym's visibility or staying fully anonymous in the first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5pkQgAo5tg
Notice there's a pizza theme here ... yes, it is real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NK90P471y8
There's a reason there's teenage mutant ninja T_T UR LE and "Master Splinter" and "Splinter CELL" and such things; nothing is a coincidence.
There have been many subtle hints for decades and sometimes some people keep insisting on playing stupid games.
There was a German indie movie "Run Lola Run" in the "mid-90s" and a recent movie called "Mid-90s" that came out recently, and despite it being another indie-type film, it had an unusually large outlay of advertising expense for such a small film, as did Run Lola Run ; that is not by accident. It's also not an accident the main song in the soundtrack to that movie is "After Laughter Comes Tears".
There are other movies with subtle and sometimes not-so subtle indications of something going on somewhere for a long time.
In fact, if you're a little older there is a a Stevie Nicks song whose meaning would leave most jaws dropped.
There's a lot, lot more ...