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Jeez at the NYT hit piece on SSC. It doesn’t take much undeserved hostility to get me defending the rationalists instead of trolling them, but this almost had me feeling sorry even for Moldbug and Thiel. That takes a potent mix of bad faith and storytelling skill to pull off.
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For those who don’t follow this stuff, the piece literally had nothing to work with except pure guilt by association and suggestion several degrees removed and what appears to be saving face/playing victim re the blog deletion drama 🙄
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This story is the equivalent of someone doing a story on NYT claiming Maggie Haberman was a magahead based on her access journalism compromises, and Dean Baquet secretly a Nazi because the op ed section featured Tom Cotton that one time.
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The tech scene is just a place I do consulting work now, and increasingly at layers close enough to the actual tech stuff that I can thankfully afford to ignore the higher cultural layers.
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I suspect the NYT is mortally afraid of facing competition as the monopoly source of cultural authority. Is this why this why they also beef with Los Angeles as a city? 🧐
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The piece also reveals a basic incomprehension of how SV works. It’s just very open-access and everybody talks to everybody, makes intros, etc. Doesn’t imply influence or agreement. To the NY mind, I suspect it looks like a conspiracy because that’s what it *would* mean in NY.
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If I had as much access in NY or DC as I do in SV, I could probably start a small war. In SV, it just means I might score an occasional free lunch or warm lead for a gig.
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