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Re:Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced dis... by ShorsHammer on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:08AM (#23721442)
I was originally quite supportive of the choice made but it really has a smell after some reflection. He seems quite open on twitter in front of 50k followers about his real name.

His twitter bio:

Scott Alexander

@slatestarcodex

54.5K Followers

I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

https://twitter.com/slatestarcodex

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Re:Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced dis... by fredoliveira on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:16AM (#23722400)
You clearly didn't (and probably should) read his post explaining why he took the blog down. It literally says right there, that Scott Alexander is part of his name, but that the NYT would expose his _full name_ instead.
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Re:Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced dis... by Smaug123 on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:45AM (#23721630)
Even if he did broadcast his full name regularly on @slatestarcodex (which he doesn't), the main problem is in the other direction, as he and others have repeatedly noted. The worry is that people (i.e. patients) can go from Scott LastName to SlateStarCodex, not the other way round.
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Re:Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced dis... by Ghjklov on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:29AM (#23721552)
That's not his full name. IIRC Scott Alexander is just his first and middle name or something, and the journalist was going to lay out his full name for everyone to know.
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