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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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that source was real hard to find, it's only the first post on the old blog slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt

10:28 PM · Feb 17, 2021Twitter Web App

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there are reasons other than dysphoria to keep one's wallet name private, and I think everybody (including, yes, transpeople) has the right to do that, and we should uphold a culture in which those who violate that right get shunned

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Ok? Once again i will merely point out that siskind is now happily using his wallet name, and not, eg, telling people that actually he prefers to go by scott alexander, if they don't mind, so i don't feel like I'm violating any important social norm.

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I think what you meant to say is that you know that he self-described his motivations in that manner. I'm about as inclined to trust him on this as i am to trust whatever right wing commentator most recently went on national news to complain about being cancelled.