hey, *this-corner-of-twitter* followers, i've never read anything from Slate Star Codex til now and it seems i've been missing out, would appreciate it if you pointed me to your favorite posts!
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I guess to add to this: I put SSC in the same category as a lot of woo. He is worth reading and trying to extract value from, but the process is intrinsically a slightly adversarial one and taking him too seriously is worse than not reading him.
Reading him is a net positive if you're able to cleanly separate the good bits from the bad bits, but he isn't going to do that for you (because he can't), and I'd rather people not take on either than take on both.
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Yup, I started with the Moloch one and that was my impression. Didn't agree with his final conclusions and his confidence in them made me kinda wary, but the ride to get there was fascinating. Got a big ol grain of salt ready for the rest of his stuff.
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it's hard to generalize because the corpus is so vast. the fiction (obviously) is mostly not controversial and fun. medical stuff is very earnest and informed. book reviews are thorough. culture war stuff, ymmv. regardless, he is a gifted, entertaining, and cogent writer.
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let's not make as if reading blogs is akin to performing dark magic that you have to be cautious with. blogs are entertainment, literally the worst thing that can happen to you is that you'll be bored
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What do you think the bad bits are?
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He's very confident of his position and he's very big on "principle of charity" as a talking point but he's not actually very good at being charitable to competing worldviews. Most blatant example is that basically every time feminism comes up you need to salt the post liberally.
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