The most non-credible assertion in the SSC thing is the insistence journalists don't think about SSC at all. Ah yes, that must be why the article was revived months after the initial call... That's why journalists were falling over themselves to dissect it and contextualize it.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1366017376202993664 …
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If it's not deliberate, they're incompetent, which is _worse_ because it implies they are incapable of ever doing better.
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Replying to @unconed
I think that journalists don't think about SSC qua SSC I think that journalists think about discrediting rival power centers like "tech", and SSC is one small target that they can punch a few bullets into
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If it's true a rationalwiki person fed them most of the links, this suggests it's the journalists' sources we're specifically living rent free in... but, all of this just makes it worse. There is no enlightened reporter presenting a measured view. It's just laundered gossip.
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