Please...... im fucking lost
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I don't think this is a *great* article about who Scott Alexander Siskind is or why people care about him But the NYT doing this article is what kicked off this whole recent shitstorm, so it's a good starting placehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html …
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Ah. Really my big question here is: who the fuck is brennan? Cause i didnt see that name anywhere in the screencaps in that quoted tweet or anything the quoted tweet was a reply to (that i could see)
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Arthur Chu Retweeted Aster, internet archaeologist
He deleted because he's being harassed There's an ongoing controversy over whether Scott holds crypto-racist views and Topher Brennan, a former acquaintance of his, posted an email he sent him basically admitting ithttps://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001?s=19 …
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Aster, internet archaeologist @ArsonAtDennysHere are the emails by@slatestarcodex that show he is a racist eugenics supporter. Emails leaked by@TopherTBrennan who deleted their tweets just now. Reposting here. https://web.archive.org/web/20210217195335/https://twitter.com/TopherTBrennan/status/1362108632070905857 … pic.twitter.com/DfTmV5Ip9BShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes -
an ex-metamour of his, in fact. "former acquaintance" sort of undersells how deep into the ratcult inner circles (including the irl community) Brennan was.
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whats a metamour?
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Term from the polyamory community, meaning someone you're not dating but who's dating one of your partners It's a geeky joke about the word "paramour"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @salorarainriver and
Topher is currently married to Scott's ex It's not that unusual a story except that because of polyamory the time the two of them dated Ozy overlaps
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Well, right, and also that in this particular case i gather they were, if not close, at least rather more than passing acquaintances?
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they were friends and now they're not
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The racism issue may have had more than a little to do with that
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the real break came with Topher having epistemological alarm bells go off about LessWrong philosophy then Yudkowsky declared him an unperson around 2015? or so
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????!?! Epistemological alarm bells?!
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