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Anonymity[edit]

Given the new request of anonymity: https://slatestarcodex.com/ can we remove mentions of even his pen-name. — Unsigned, by: 204.60.1.215 / talk

Given that your beef about doxxing is with the New York Times, that's where you need to resolve the issue. Removing the name here is not going to fix things due to our page history, as well as the archival sites (archive.org and archive.is) having copies. Bongolian (talk) 08:08, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
"Scott Alexander" is his pen name and what he's known as everywhere. We already specifically refrain from using his tax name here (it's unusual and easily searchable) because he's been harassed at work previously for his blogging, and that's not what we're here for - David Gerard (talk) 09:26, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Scott Alexander appears to be trying to change his own page. He is welcome to explain anything on the page that he thinks is incorrect, and we will attempt to address it here or on the page itself. Bongolian (talk) 00:08, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

archive site links[edit]

Scott's pulled the blog down. Who wants to slog through all the links looking for the archive.org copies? (Or archive.is, if he drops the site in robots.txt) - David Gerard (talk) 09:26, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

I'll take care of the citations some time today. Bongolian (talk) 17:19, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Scott's posted his name publicly, and it's in the NYT, and here's the scientific racism receipts[edit]

Comes out as Scott Siskind: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

NYT (also names as Scott Siskind): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html

scientific racism: https://twitter.com/TopherTBrennan/status/1362108632070905857

that last is from Topher Brennan, whose name before marriage was Topher Hallquist - blogged as The Uncredible Hallq at Freethought Blogs and Patheos for a while, years ago. Knows Scott well. Has the receipts - David Gerard (talk) 20:52, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Bennan's Twitter post has been taken down, but its archived at eg. https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/643400252772302848/topher-brennan-ive-decided-to-say-screw-it and a variety of far-right sites. Alexander sent him an email of several thousand word organized in eight points beginning with "1) HBD is probably partially correct or at least very non-provably non-correct", continuing to "4) these things are actually important" and ending with "8) seriously seriously the absurdity heuristic doesn't work". Another part of his essay:

"Compare RationalWiki and the neoreactionaries. RationalWiki provides a steady stream of mediocrity. Almost nothing they say is outrageously wrong, but almost nothing they say is especially educational to someone who is smart enough to have already figured out that homeopathy doesn't work. ... The Neoreactionaries provide a vast stream of garbage with occasional nuggets of absolute gold in them." (So Alexander seems confused about what an encyclopedia is for and what a snarky site on the Internet is for - but that quote about RationalWiki belongs on the page!). Polydamas (talk) 18:08, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

An aside on the Murray thing[edit]

Scott Alexander looks worse in full context. ☭Comrade GC☭Ministry of Praise 23:21, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Livejournal[edit]

No mention is made of the fact that Scott wrote for many years (2004-2013) on Livejournal as squid314. The Livejournal appears to be closed now (all pages private? all pages friendslocked?), but while it was open, its contents did sometimes go into the web archive. Is there a reason to not mention Livejournal? Or was it just an oversight? 38.70.11.236 (talk) 15:34, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

probably an oversight only; I mean what's the need of mentioning it? It doesn't seem very important, and it would seem more like stalking unless there was something actually good in there.𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭 talk stalk 12:11, 12 February 2024 (UTC)