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Is this the "uh, thing"? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blog-comment-that-achieved-an-internet-miracle/384539/ https://www.theatlanti

• aorth 4y ago
  I think it was the doxxing against his will by NY Times. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-st... Edit: users pointed out this is a different Scott. My mistake!
  • Chinjut 4y ago
    This is a different Scott.
    • gonehome 4y ago
      Yeah, though I wonder if Aaronson’s writing tone is somewhat influenced by Alexander’s. At least he reminded me of him by the end. I’m pretty sure they all know/read each other - related communities/ideas. PBS also has a (now discontinued) YouTube show called infinite series that did a decent overview of the algorithm and showed examples of a lot of the stuff described here.
      • cwillu 4y ago
        They both list the other blog as recommended reading (although Shtetl-Optimized still links to Star-Slate-Codex rather than Astral-Codex-Ten).
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