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I hope I'm right, but I don't expect the NYT article on Scott Alexander to be a hit piece. It's revealing that so many worry it will be, though. Few would have 10 years ago. But it's a more dangerous time for ideas now than 10 years ago, and the NYT is also less to be trusted.
Doxxing Scott is bad, definitely, but we don't have any evidence that the article itself is meant to cancel him, as so many seem to worry.
Incidentally, having written that, I find myself asking: how can we make the next 10 years a less dangerous time for ideas? I don't have any answers, but I wouldn't be surprised if answers exist, so it might be worth thinking about.
it's bill nye
Doxing would get u kicked off Twitter.
Would you say his reaction was either premature or excessive? I'm not sure I would, myself, though I believe the credibility of his having setup this blog in such a way to deliberately be anonymous. If that was never an option, there might never have been a blog.
This is probably true. There'll be some positives in the article. But not enough for the article to be worth it. #ghostnyt
Consider this sequence of events: positive article - > barrage of letters to the editor - > NYT feels compelled to tell the other side. The media is broken and we want no part of it. Their sensemaking is a joke, and they're taking the actually good sensemakers down with them.
I thought doxxing was more than just revealing their first and last name. Isn't the scope usually broader (e.g., their address, ph#, place of employment, email, photos, etc.)?
To be fair, according to Scott himself, it was never about being a hit piece. It was about doxxing in spite of expressed and valid concerns. Regardless of the article's content, this is just incredibly sad.pic.twitter.com/HZtTPY6d4Z
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