Honestly if I knew the threat of "doxing" (for someone who objectively already is doxed, his real name is a well known open secret) were a big enough deal to make Scott Alexander log off and shut up forever I probably should've done it years ago
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It's one of the most obnoxious shticks of Bay Area rationalism Use a metaphor to do the opposite of what a metaphor should do and make a simple idea *more complicated* so it sounds cooler and gets you clicks
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Like Eliezer Yudkowsky's obnoxious habit of saying shit like "The Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs" to mean groups getting more extreme in their opinions as time passes and moderate members lose interest
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