X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fagreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md;h=15b9308cae2006d3bfee0dd9e3214c564c2946bc;hb=8e69675d2b4984e1a815105d8cc2256115c62d4b;hp=73d8212a0e9cd8623c6082c00eb5c3c87f7312bc;hpb=7fb8668bed5cb8806a57e8b45cd38c915a7136d6;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md index 73d8212..15b9308 100644 --- a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md +++ b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Really, that should have been the end of the story—with a relatively happy end That wasn't the end of the story, which does not have such a relatively happy ending. +[TOC] + ### The _New York Times_'s Other Shoe Drops (February 2021) On 13 February 2021, ["Silicon Valley's Safe Space"](https://archive.ph/zW6oX), the _New York Times_ piece on _Slate Star Codex_, came out. It was ... pretty lame? (_Just_ lame, not a masterfully vicious hit piece.) Cade Metz did a mediocre job of explaining what our robot cult is about, while [pushing hard on the subtext](https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5310) to make us look racist and sexist, occasionally resorting to odd constructions that were surprising to read from someone who had been a professional writer for decades. ("It was nominally a blog", Metz wrote of _Slate Star Codex_. ["Nominally"](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nominally)?) The article's claim that Alexander "wrote in a wordy, often roundabout way that left many wondering what he really believed" seemed more like a critique of the many's reading comprehension than of Alexander's writing.