I often disagree publicly with @slatestarcodex on substance, but I love that he does what he does.
The NYT article’s thrust seems to be that anyone who is not enthusiastically aligned with the NYT’s views is Bad. Plus, in his case, part of a vague but terrifying tech conspiracy.
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I find terrifying the concrete tech conspiracy that is the digital surveillance economy. Many of the tech people the Metz article names are sharp critics of that conspiracy and are actively fighting it technically as well as rhetorically.
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Replying to @Meaningness @slatestarcodex
the idea that it was fash friendly does not track; he had one of the best rebuttals to NRx i saw. shameful on nyt part
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There's a broad consensus among current NRxers that they got into NRx BECAUSE of Scott's FAQ about itpic.twitter.com/upzGqsgTK3
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iBreezy6 and
Was that the post where Slatestarcodex said ‘I don’t agree with this anti-democratic elitism but I’m going to lay out its arguments and debunk them later’?
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Replying to @gwshel @arthur_affect and
I’m just a casual interloper out of my league, but that post left me convinced that Slatestarcodex was 100% supportive of neo-reactionarism. It was linked to by David Shor, the promised rebuttal was absent, & so I wrote off SSC as just another ‘I’m not an elitist fash, but…’
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The idea that Slatestarcodex is an off-ramp rather than an on-ramp for fascist extremism is such obvious nonsense Just try finding someone who was DEradicalized against "the woke invasion" by SSC, explain to me how that would even be possible
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Replying to @arthur_affect @gwshel and
To the contrary, the "Culture War Thread" on r/slatestarcodex became so toxic and so filled with Confederate flag wavers animatedly discussing their need to stockpile guns for the upcoming race war that they had to spin off a new sub to quarantine them, r/TheMotte
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Replying to @arthur_affect @gwshel and
(And people will actually say with a straight face that the existence of r/TheMotte proves Scott's liberal bona fides "He sent his Nazis away to another subreddit! Most bloggers haven't sent their Nazis away ANYWHERE" He still linked to posts from r/TheMotte regularly though)
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And even that got too extreme for people on r/TheMotte and it split AGAIN, with r/TheSchism Wow, talk about your intellectual rigor and diversity of opinion
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