As paradoxical as it may sound to say this about a 12.5k-word essay, you need to read this, because it sums up what I hate about Scott Alexander much better than I canhttps://twitter.com/ElSandifer/status/1363170201232146433?s=19 …
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"Why should being a rationalist mean having to expose yourself to MRAs and eugenicists and race realists and neoreactionaries Why is your intellectual stimulation more important than my safety"
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And in response to this short comment - which was really not much longer than my tweet about it - Scott *laid into him* Launched one of those gigantic novella-length broadsides
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This one, which was much more personal and revealing than "Niceness, Community and Civilization" and has since been scrubbed, was in the exact same genre as Scott Aaronson's incel post "ACTUALLY it is YOU who make ME feel unsafe"
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(On the one hand I’m never sure if I’m nonwhite enough to be meaningfully treated as such and on the other hand this is probably pretty up there in terms of whether “I’m Mexican and” means the answer is already ‘yes’)
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(—I just don’t want people thinking I’m being deliberately deceptive, but I don’t have a good script for doing so)
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