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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by kortilla on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:40PM (#26129446)
> Scott published his own identity. That was his choice. Do you disagree with that?

No, he quite clearly was trying to keep the association between the psychiatry real identity and Scott Alexander. There would be no fucking discussion here if Scott intentionally meant to reveal his identity.

>Is there some unwritten rule on the internet that you are anonymous as long as it's kinda a little bit difficult to figure it out?

Yes, there is a reason it’s gotten its own term. And this is why many sites (like Reddit) have very explicit anti-doxxing rules.

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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by heavyset_go on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:45PM (#26129476)
> No, he quite clearly was trying to keep the association between the psychiatry real identity and Scott Alexander. There would be no fucking discussion here if Scott intentionally meant to reveal his identity.

Then why did he publish his own recognizable blog post with his full name here[1]?

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Technological_Singu...

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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by TeaDrunk on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:49PM (#26129503)
Isn't there a difference between having your name in a book that likely doesn't get much circulation and therefore probably wouldn't damage your career from attention, and the literal New York Times outing your name?

Shouldn't we at least suggest these are significantly distinct events with very different ramifications for the author?

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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by heavyset_go on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:51PM (#26129517)
Don't argue that Scott didn't intentionally mean to reveal his identity if he himself intentionally chose to reveal his own identity.
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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by TeaDrunk on Saturday February 13, 2021 @11:41PM (#26129743)
I think it is fair to say that the author under the pseudonym of Scott Alexander didn't mean to provide an avenue for which his identity could be in a major, nationwide, widely-read source of news, when he republished an article under his real name in a relatively niche audience book that would unlikely have the same amount of circulation as the New York Times.
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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by neonate on Saturday February 13, 2021 @11:32PM (#26129704)
That's not what TeaDrunk was arguing.
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Re:Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? by kortilla on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:28AM (#26139750)
You’re right, he’s probably working for NYTimes and this is a geurrilla marketing campaign. He didn’t want to stay anonymous and was using the name Scott Alexander for a decade for the build-up to this climax of made up events.
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