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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.
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.
Think it’s similar to how tabloids targeted certain celebrities over the years?
- According to footnote 5, the author has knowledge about journalism and is an SSC reader, but knows little of "the rationalist community". - People in that community know... that Cade Metz was working on this article a LONG time, interviewing lots of people at length, and...
...that it started with the frame of "who were the Covid early warners?" before the editor told Metz to out Scott, and Scott took down SSC to gain time while he had to quit his previous job. This was *not* a careless hit piece, it was a deliberate editor-ordered NYT strike.
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