I absolutely did not investigate it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
I'd assumed his name actually was "Scott Alexander" right up until someone online called him "Scott Siskind" by accident
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
I am first learning his last name now, even after reading some Astral Codex Ten where he no longer hides it.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @NotoriousAapje and
Okay, good for you, do you want a prize for ignorance or something
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
The point is it was never that easy to find unless you had a weird obsession with knowing it.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and
Except that's not true. Some people had to have seen the initial leak. They'd tell other people and it would spread from there. Information spreads like water, just because you didn't encounter this particular stream doesn't mean no one did.
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Replying to @Zendervai @GabrielObray and
and the bit where it literally wasn't a leak bu this name
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Replying to @davidgerard @Zendervai and
Because everyone deserves the right to write anonymously. That's the key point being debated here, and if the vital bit of personal information doesnt count as a leak, literally nothing does.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @davidgerard and
I write anonymously. The name under which I write has only 2 names (to my 4), none of the same initials, and is not etymologically related to my actual name. That’s a bit different from being called Scott Alexander Siskind and writing as Scott Alexander.
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Replying to @epistemophagy @davidgerard and
Right, you can start a blog thinking you're a rando and suddenly get national attention. "Scott Alexander" is a perfectly reasonable alias if you're just some blogger.
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Lol Jesus it wasn't actually "sudden" dude
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
fucking rationalists, jfc everything scott says is true, everything that those of us with memories of objective reality note as actually having fucking happened is pernicious lies that increase existential risk
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Replying to @davidgerard @GabrielObray and
Scott's been "Internet famous" since at least 2010, he started the "Slatestarcodex" blog *because* he was a big name in Bay Area rationalism and wanted to have stuff that could go viral more easily than links to a LiveJournal
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