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    1. James Babcock‏ @jimrandomh Feb 15

      To understand the recent NYT article about Scott Alexander, you need to understand the forum SA's detractors hang out in, SneerClub. Here's how it advertises itself, on its sidebar: "the club attracts psychologically f'd-up people. Bullies, in a word".https://archive.is/Vplke 

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    2. James Babcock‏ @jimrandomh Feb 15

      James Babcock Retweeted David Gerard  🐍 👑  🌷

      One SneerClub regular is David Gerard, who has written 3606 comments there, and made a project of feeding material to Cade Metz (https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1360735880466604040 …). He also frequently edits the LessWrong Wikipedia article, always towards criticism (in violation of WP:AXEGRIND).

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      David Gerard  🐍 👑  🌷 @davidgerard
      i sent Metz SO MUCH material for that NYT SlateStarCodex article, i can see the ghosts of what i sent every phrase is firmly backed up by multiple sources - but it was run through the NYT mealymouthed centrist filter read every line as the strong version of the statement
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    3. James Babcock‏ @jimrandomh Feb 15

      This is why there are persistent rumors that the rationality community is affiliated with neoreaction, HBD, and so on: because we're nerds, and rumors make good weapons for bullies.

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    4. Humanoid‏ @LegendOfHouse Feb 15
      Replying to @jimrandomh

      Hbd was always a central point of discussion in the ssc subreddit with most users agreeing with it. Not a rumour

      1 reply 1 retweet 19 likes
    5. James Babcock‏ @jimrandomh Feb 15
      Replying to @LegendOfHouse

      Looks like there was an HBD question on the reader survey: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/20/ssc-survey-results-2020/ …. On a 1-5 scale, mean response: 2.75. I never spent much time on the subreddit, but I picked a few random points in time on http://archive.org  and didn't see it mentioned on its front page.

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    6. James Babcock‏ @jimrandomh Feb 15
      Replying to @jimrandomh @LegendOfHouse

      My own take (I think very common): innate differences exist and sometimes matter, eg COVID and vitamin D deficiency, but it's silly to invoke genetics to socioeconomic differences in the US, when there's so much known, overt racism in our country's recent history.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. James Babcock‏ @jimrandomh Feb 15
      Replying to @jimrandomh @LegendOfHouse

      It's easy to point at nerds who insists on getting technicalities like genetic-differences-in-vitamin-D deficiency right, and misconstrue them as though they endorsed phrenology.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    8. I only get hard for Jean Baudrillard‏ @Remalgigoran Feb 15
      Replying to @jimrandomh @LegendOfHouse

      Phrenology and IQ science is the same tier of "hilarious bullshit". Yet, there's a question asking your IQ. Further, a mean answer rounded up to literally 3 on a scale of 1-5 does not indicate a strong concern for the nutrition of black people.

      1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
    9. Aster, internet archaeologist‏ @ArsonAtDennys Feb 16
      Replying to @Remalgigoran @jimrandomh @LegendOfHouse

      How do you feel about Scientific-racism and phrenology? Slate Star Codex readers: It’s alright I guess, give it a 3 out of 5. Shockingly this is not as reassuring as you may think @jimrandomh.

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @ArsonAtDennys @Remalgigoran and

      One of the funniest, saddest, most memeable moments on SSC was Scott's readership actually going out to get IQ tested en masse and a ton of them completely losing their shit when their score wasn't as high as they thought it should be

      1 reply 7 retweets 34 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 16
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ArsonAtDennys and

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Arthur Chu

      And Scott had to write this ridiculously carefully phrased blog post saying that yes the Science says IQ matters a great deal but that doesn't mean *your* IQ matters You're not like one of those dumb Chads, you *know* you're nothttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1009921254751498240?s=20 …

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      Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affect
      Replying to @arthur_affect @roninkakuhito
      Backed into a corner over this, Scott hemmed and hawed over his previous confidence in psychometrics in a remarkably assholish way pic.twitter.com/s7xioouVYF
      11:17 PM - 16 Feb 2021
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        1. Rocket‏ @Rocketboy1313 Feb 16
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ArsonAtDennys and

          Maybe they should have just fallen back on the old, "IQ isn't real". That is what I do.

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        1. I only get hard for Jean Baudrillard‏ @Remalgigoran Feb 16
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ArsonAtDennys and

          Oh my God this is PEAK SSC/LW. Incredible. Just totally fucking out-of-this-world incredible.

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        2. David Gerard  🐍 👑  🌷‏ @davidgerard Feb 17
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ArsonAtDennys and

          reader: "oh no my number is low" Scott: "hush now, IQ is for saying blacks r dum, not for saying *you* r dum"

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