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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by lukasb on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:37PM (#26129178)
Because HN wants to believe that the same "throw away what's been done before and reason from first principles" approach that serves them well in engineering can be applied to social problems. (Spoiler: it can't.)
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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by jimrandomh on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:30PM (#26129389)
I don't think that's what Scott is doing. See this post (2017): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...
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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by mlthoughts2018 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:54PM (#26129234)
This feels almost like a false flag sort of extreme comment, knowingly violating the rules, just to make it seem like Slate Star Codex supporters are this kind of discourteous, bro-y, insulting aggressive group.

Maybe it’s not actually a false flag, but let’s be clear that it utterly doesn’t represent the kind of values most SSC readers subscribe to. While I don’t like the original comment’s criticism of why people like SSC, that in no way justifies this type of extremely inappropriate response, full stop.

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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by ketamine__ on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:51PM (#26129226)
Why are you wasting time on this centralized platform. It's sooo outdated.
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