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 [TODO: Sasha disaster, breakup with Vassar group, this was really bad for me]
 
 [TODO: NYT affair and Brennan link, prelude to pronouns post
- * Cade Metz's story came out, and it was pretty bad in the ways you'd expect
+ * On 13 February 2021, [the _New York Times_ article on _Slate Star Codex_](https://archive.ph/zW6oX) came out.
  * notably, the Charles Murray guilt-by-association was a reach on the part of the reporter
- * What's particularly weird is that if you actually read Scott's work (e.g. "High School Science Project", he's obviously sympathetic to genetic explanations; it's _possible_ for Jews to be smart for genetic reasons but the black/white gap to be fake and environmental
+ * a "[Gettier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem) attack"—right for the wrong reasons
+ * Anyone who's _actually read_ Scott's work, knows that Scott thinks hereditarianism is plausible.
+ * Charles Murray is _also_ agnostic about causality.
+ * (maybe footnote) ["The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/) or the ["Biodeterminist's Guide to Parenting"](https://expost.padm.us/biodet), or the mention of _Human Varieties_ in ["Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced?"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-popular-and-silenced/)
+ * (It's certainly _possible_ for the Ashkenazi IQ advantage to be real and genetic, and black–white gap to be fake and environmental.)
  * Scott's denial doesn't go into this, of course
  * Brennan email leak
  * my comment on bullies and heresy / my Twitter comment on lying
+ * If you actually read the email, it doesn't look like Brennan made any promises—Scott confessed, and threatened. I don't think Scott did anything wrong—_because_ I don't think belief in hereditarianism is wrong. If you imagine someone confessing to a real crime and then threatening "Don't tell anyone this", we would regard the leaker as a valiant whistleblower, not a privacy breaker
  * Yudkowsky reopens the conversation?! Why?!
 
+https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228
 
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1362514650089156608
 > Hypothesis:  People to whom self-awareness and introspection come naturally, put way too much moral exculpatory weight on "But what if they don't know they're lying?"  They don't know a lot of their internals!  And don't want to know!  That's just how they roll.
 
-Oh, this was also on 18 February 2021 (same day as my comment about SneerClub); maybe the conjunction of the two made me more salient
+Oh, this was also on 18 February 2021 4:13 p.m. (same day as my comment about SneerClub); maybe the conjunction of the two made me more salient
 https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1362555980232282113
 > Oh, maybe it's relevant to note that those posts were specifically part of my 21-month rage–grief campaign of being furious at Eliezer all day every day for lying-by-implicature about the philosophy of language? But, I don't want to seem petty by pointing that out! I'm over it!