Hi! Different people saw different results. A group of us checked immediately as well, investigating exactly this claim (“the NYT article would mean his patients, Googling him, would quickly find his blog”) and several of us got there with just his name.
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I would argue it was never a pen name. He used his full name to publish in a journal as noted by
@ElSandifer. He blogged and was featured on rationalist blogs under his full name. His insistence that no one use his full name is relatively recent. -
I've seen a lot of activists in vulnerable positions do just that; retreat from earlier public writings to a pen name, and it certainly helped them; friction is genuinely protective. One NYT article would utterly ruin it because now Google will pull it up.
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he literally published in academia under his real name as the Slate Star Codex guy you could call that a "failure of opsec", or you could just call it publishing Slate Star Codex stuff publicly under his real name his name has literally never been a secret
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Everyone is confusing "I can find out" with top search result from name to blog. Not secret and your first Google result are very different. I did actually search his real name after the NYT brouhaha and no, it was buried many pages in. That's not a minor difference whatsovever.
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