I read Slate Star Codex regularly, I think like two-thirds of the blog posts there are actually really good, and I also think the RationalWiki article is if anything excessively charitable toward Alexander.
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In contrast, any article that can, upon reading it, make someone like Dumitru (i.e. level-headed, progressive, agrees with Scott on 99% of things at the object level) dismiss Scott’s entire body of work out-of-hand has maybe just a little bit been designed to do so
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You're describing a lot of Scott's own articles.
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I disagree, so long as you aren’t adversarially choosing the list of articles. Scott’s whole schtick is picking apart arguments he finds to be unsatisfying, even if that argument lands on the side of enshrined orthodoxy.
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If you aren’t primed to his style, I admit it’s easy to pattern match his articles onto “evil outgroup”, because who else would possibly spend so much time discussing such taboo things?
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But I think that’s one of the, like, fundamental tenets of Scott’s whole grey tribe *thing*—that kind of gut-pattern-matching in the absence of careful reasoning is exactly what he’s trying to squash
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It is my position that the kind of detached, analytical, omnivorous "truth seeking" Scott supposedly aspires to is impossible and aspiring to it is a great way to lie to yourself about your own biases and commitments
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Scott himself talks a lot about this, while refusing to apply it to himself
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Seriously, ask yourself just why Scott applies *so much* charity specifically to neoreactionaries, scientific racism, and the like while withholding it from, say, Marxism
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Feminism is I think the best example - Captain Charity is the same guy who comes up with takes like "rape culture can't be real, since if you ask people what they think of rape they will all say it's bad"
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Yeah and his claim that victim-blaming for rape isn't unique, "If you get something stolen people ask you what you could've done to prevent it all the time" Like not spending even ten seconds trying to put himself in the shoes of someone who got raped
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LOL From my experience, "what you could have done?" Is often framed as tip to avoid further thief and they are rarely inconvenient things to do. Furthermore, people take your word when you claim to have been robbed.
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