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Feb 17, 2021

As someone who used to read SSC back in the day nothing about this is really surprising, but it's worth reading if you still need more evidence that SSC was way closer to NRX than Siskind likes to claim. twitter.com/TopherTBrennan

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kind of rich of someone with a trans flag in their screen name to insist on using someone's wallet name when they specifically and very visibly requested otherwise

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Really? Because IIRC he's been signing his substack posts with Siskind these days, so I'm pretty sure I'm not making him dysphoric by using it.

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Feeling pretty confident that I'm not deadnaming him here but I'm happy to discuss in more detail if you have an actual point to make!

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I call people by their preferred names no matter their reasons, they don't need to show me their spent leuprorelin injectors or estradiol patches to qualify for it

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also, as both of us know, he only switched to using his wallet name to defuse potential blackmail - he would very much have preferred not to

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Do we both know that? You certainly seem to think you know that.

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And blackmail is a weird word for the very valid desire some of his clients might have to not work with someone who sees them as genetically inferior, are you implying someone was going to use this info to, what, extort his private btc wallet keys?

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why does it matter why he did it? he's using that name now so i don't understand what you're taking offense at

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If i had to guess I'd say it probably has something to do with seeing the trans flag emoji in my username as an exploitable vulnerability and pursuing this line of argument based on that, but of course there's probably a more charitable explanation I'm missing.

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So you're acknowledging that he now publicly uses the name "Scott Siskind", but asserting that he would prefer people continue to refer to him as "Scott Alexander"? Am I understanding your point correctly? Surely if he had such a preference he'd have said so in "Still Alive"?

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good point, but going by astralcodexten.substack.com/about?sort=peo I'd still stick with Scott Alexander

astralcodexten.substack.com

Astral Codex Ten

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary. Click to read Astral Codex Ten, by Scott Alexander, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of readers.

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