His diagnosis is that the article was not a deliberate hit job but something closer to a bug — a bad interaction between the NYT's editorial bias and the sloppiness of the individual reporter writing the story.
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I haven't read all the analyses of the famous NYT article on Scott Alexander, but this is likely to be the best. It's written with calm wisdom and a deep knowledge of both sides. https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-framers-and-framed-notes-on-slate.html …
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Basically the reporter knew his job was to make tech look bad, but when he investigated SSC and the "rationalist community" it turned out to be a bunch of harmless nerds, so he had to make shit up.
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But although the SSC article is a bug, it's not a random bug. Like many bugs, it teaches us important things about the system it occurred in. And that we'll see more. The combination of editors' bias and reporters' sloppiness is not a rare one.
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his recent blog post (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans …) says a lot about his readership base
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I LOLd at his love for prediction markets, where in late November (!!) Trump was still given double digit chances at reelection
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Do you think that the NYT will dox Satoshi Nakamoto?
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Moldbug’s analysis was better Tbh:https://graymirror.substack.com/p/scott-alexander-the-disappointed …
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I liked this blog post because it put form to a number of key ideas with references • NYT editors start with a narrative then have reporters write stories to fit it • Journalists have significant power to frame how millions view a topic or person and should wield it carefullypic.twitter.com/wuJ8wOSIKD
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My favorite are references to the idea that the world is extremely complex and the way people deal with that is to create simpler mental models of cause and effect. This leads to ascribing reasons to occurrences based on that mental model even if divorced from reality.pic.twitter.com/oTZLxZyACt
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