Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by zozbot234 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:18PM (#23783303)

Scott is extremely popular in the rationalist community (second only to EY and possibly RH), and has a sizeable following outside of it. He doesn't need to "pretend[] that his hand was forced" to get any sort of "future opportunities" he might want; he just needs to ask. This whole kerfuffle doesn't exactly help him, even from that POV.

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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by Just_a_simple_q on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:01PM (#23793596)

Who are EY and RH?

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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by zozbot234 on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:10PM (#23794473)

They're prominent members of the rationality community, who also happen to be mentioned in the article in connection with the same.

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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by SilasX on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:09PM (#23795846)

I think they were asking for someone to expand the abbreviations and save others from having to dig for all the EY/RH people mentioned.

EY = Eliezer Yudkowsky, I don't immediately recognize an RH.

Edit: Ah, Robin Hanson, I guess?

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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by wskinner on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:36PM (#23796152)

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Robin Hanson.

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