Here’s what any good overview of Scott Alexander is going to need to say. 1) He emerged out of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s LessWrong community. This community consists almost entirely of hobbyists attempting to reinvent academic disciplines from scratch.
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Replying to @TonyIsWrong
Point 1 gets the community wrong, the rest gets Scott wrong. There are a *few* people with an unhealthy obsession with group differences in intelligence, but "extremely fertile grounds" seems like speculation. Don't know enough to comment further on that.
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Replying to @chriswaterguy @TonyIsWrong
Bull fucking shit Scott's last big blog post before he deleted was putting up a petition on behalf of Stephen Hsu, an academic who was recently "canceled" for support of HBD and IQ research
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