![]() ![]() ![]() It turned into a quite vigorous thread on Twitter which sadly never stood a chance of going viral because it was an intelligible and respectful exchange of views – exactly what Tom was hoping for in his article, in fact – but I came away from it feeling dissatisfied.Īnd that’s why I’m writing this. This is not what Chivers wanted to write about, but this point captures the problem with Scott Alexander’s writing, and points towards a problem with rationalists. Murray believes Black people “are genetically less intelligent than white people.”Ĭhivers described this moment as “perilously close to outright misrepresentation… in essence, guilt by association” and pointed out that “the line in which he “aligns himself” with Murray is on whether there is a genetic component to poverty (which surely there must be), not race: race is not mentioned in the post at all.” in “The Bell Curve.” In another, he pointed out that Mr. In one post, aligned himself with Charles Murray, who proposed a link between race and I.Q. ![]() In one memorable mis-step (and I tend to believe it was bad writing rather than bad faith), the writer Cade Metz writes that I agree it’s a little violin music that the NYT article fails to explain the positive side to Scott Alexander’s writing. Partly as a response, Tom Chivers of Unherd wrote a lament that nobody on the web tries to persuade anybody any more to his mind, Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex (formerly) and Astral Codex Ten (currently) is one of the few who genuinely makes an attempt to persuade people of his views, or at least to reconsider their own views. The NYT wrote a fairly dire article on SSC which was received by the rationalist community as a hit job. Let’s dive into one of those rabbit holes. One of the reasons why Slate Star Codex (SSC) was so successful is that it’s often a rabbit hole of links that readers can dive into – or more specifically a rabbit warren which connects across multiple posts on multiple subjects, all promising to build into a coherent narrative based on knowledge which is hidden to all but the initiated, for whom it is in plain sight. ![]()
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