Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold

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Post by baoyu » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold
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Post by hartator » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 9:46 PM UTC

Some context?

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> NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog

Ref: https://slatestarcodex.com/

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Post by w0de02 » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 11:01 PM UTC

I’m not particularly impressed by Alexander refusing to put ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to his public and only perfunctorily anonymous writings. This all seems very petulant.

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Post by eindiran » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 11:02 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #2

Some context? [Edit] > NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog Ref: https://slatestarcodex.com/

There were a few recent threads that provide some additional context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639335

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23913340

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Post by aneeshm » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 11:08 PM UTC

w0de02 wrote: post #3

I’m not particularly impressed by Alexander refusing to put ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to his public and only perfunctorily anonymous writings. This all seems very petulant.

What's your name?

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Post by prepend » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 11:32 PM UTC

w0de02 wrote: post #3

I’m not particularly impressed by Alexander refusing to put ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to his public and only perfunctorily anonymous writings. This all seems very petulant.

This is a curious comment as skin in the game doesn’t mean entire body in the game. I think Scott Alexander exhibits skin in the game through the risk that he has with the site in general.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 12:11 AM UTC

prepend wrote: post #6

w0de02 wrote: post #3

I’m not particularly impressed by Alexander refusing to put ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to his public and only perfunctorily anonymous writings. This all seems very petulant.

This is a curious comment as skin in the game doesn’t mean entire body in the game. I think Scott Alexander exhibits skin in the game through the risk that he has with the site in general.

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Post by badRNG » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 2:47 AM UTC

I'm sure I am opening myself up for some "whataboutism" criticism, but there does seem to be a discrepancy between the respect this site shows for Brian Krebs and the support shown for SSC in the face of NYT intentionally planning to doxx Scott.

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Post by iron0013 » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

He’s really milking it, isn’t he

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Post by kemonocode » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 5:28 AM UTC

iron0013 wrote: post #9

He’s really milking it, isn’t he

His blog, his rules.

Regardless on the merit of his claims (at this point everybody knows who he is and if anything he'd be bringing more attention to his RL identity by continuing to pull these stunts) it's still appalling that the NYT insists on applying that double standard of protecting identities only when they please.