I did it. I wrote 4,000 words about the Slate Star Codex article and put it on my heretofore dead Substack. I will almost certainly regret it for a million reasons, but I am a masochist, so here it is:https://mynewbandis.substack.com/p/slate-star-clusterfuck …
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I could argue about why rationalist writing and ideas suck all day and night I don't fault anyone for not caring about that and tuning out though What they SHOULD care about is a woman leaving a suicide note saying she killed herself after years of constant sexual abuse/assault
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The story would never get published, most likely - too inside baseball, too volatile The inherently lopsided situation of pitting the words of a dead person against people who are very much alive and equipped to aggressively defend their reputations
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what i think mainstream reporting on ssc and related matters tends to miss is that it's not just "some blogs," it's an actual irl community of people who know and hang out with each other
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and, having been (very) tangentially involved with it, i can say it is a community just made of red flags the social roles women tend to get pressed towards in the name of Rationality are depressingly, obviously just reskinned patriarchy
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