Statement on New York Times Article
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Statement on New York Times Article
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#2> I want to respond to four main negative claims in the article
> 1. The article tries to connect me to Charles Murray and The Bell Curve
> 2. In their litany of reasons I am bad, the Times says I compared some feminists to Voldemort.
> 3. The Times also presented a more general case that I was a bad ally to women in tech.
> 4. They further presented a more general case that I am six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon-style linked to right-wing / pro-Trump figures in Silicon Valley like Peter Thiel. This is true -
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#3A great response, in my opinion. Succinctly and effectively points out what was wrong with the NYT article, then tries to move on. Somewhat more of a sober tone than Scott's typical writing, but still with a dash of his typical wit:
> I don’t want to accuse the New York Times of lying about me, exactly, but if they were truthful, it was in the same way as that famous movie review which describes the Wizard of Oz as: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
I have only gained respect for Scott, and lost respect for the NYT, throughout this while saga. Hopefully this is the end of it.
Edit: in the spirit of moving on, here are two of my favorite articles since his return, one enlightening, one funny:
"WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise" -- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...
"List of Fictional Cryptocurrencies Banned By The SEC" -- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/list-of-fictional-cryp...
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#4The piece was bad. After all the time they had to work on it, it was a lazy hack job that normally wouldn't make the cut at the NYT. It is a sign of the days we live in when a Mean Girls style burn book page makes it into what used to be the paper of record.
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#5My respect for the NY Times is out the window at this point.
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#6My respect for the NY Times is out the window at this point.
The last few years they have been overly focused on their agenda and many times haven't even made a visible effort to investigate fairly. NYT employees have been fired for disagreeing with the prevailing opinion in the newsroom.
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#7You can play a fun game with this snippet from the NYT article. You can replace the word "Rationalists" with the name of any group at all and the resulting statement seems vaguely true due to the imprecise nature of the language.
> Many Rationalists embraced “effective altruism,” an effort to remake charity by calculating how many people would benefit from a given donation. Some embraced the online writings of “neoreactionaries” like Curtis Yarvin, who held racist beliefs and decried American democracy. They were mostly white men, but not entirely.
"Republicans" and "Democrats" and "college students" and "Californians" all work, etc.
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#8It is a testament to the times that someone can be subject to a NYT hit job and be able to defend themselves so easily.
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#9NY times is worse than fake news. It’s intentional fake news propaganda to instill establishment thought control on their audience.
They are now part of the fascist cabal establishment in US, hunting down any wrong thinkers.
It doesn’t matter is you’re left or right. The only thing that matters to NY times fascist establishment regime is keeping the lower classes in line to help make the establishment people retain control and get richer every second.
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#10The sad part is, despite so many bad takes, ideology pushing, and hatchet jobs The NYT overall still produces comparably some of the best journalistic content out there.