Other comments have summed up my opinion on the article pretty well so I will not rehash it. However I do want to emphasize that the “winning move is not to play” as Dentin said. When Scott said the NYT was going to reveal his identity, his readers wrote to the reporter and editor. The article framed this as Scott trying to dox a journalist in a retaliatory matter.
In fact, I wouldn’t be shocked if any follow-up to that story mentioned this thread or another one like it on some other website.
Good points. “How should we respond” is also a strange framing IMO because it unquestioningly assumes that there’s a need to coordinate as a community (on Lesswrong of all places, which isn’t even a Scott-themed reddit or the commenters on his blog). Personally I think any coordination around this sort of thing is pretty weird and people should just do what they think they should do (and maybe that includes some person writing a personal post on why they want to boycot the newspaper, in the hope to inspire some others, etc.).
Other comments have summed up my opinion on the article pretty well so I will not rehash it. However I do want to emphasize that the “winning move is not to play” as Dentin said. When Scott said the NYT was going to reveal his identity, his readers wrote to the reporter and editor. The article framed this as Scott trying to dox a journalist in a retaliatory matter.
In fact, I wouldn’t be shocked if any follow-up to that story mentioned this thread or another one like it on some other website.
Good points. “How should we respond” is also a strange framing IMO because it unquestioningly assumes that there’s a need to coordinate as a community (on Lesswrong of all places, which isn’t even a Scott-themed reddit or the commenters on his blog). Personally I think any coordination around this sort of thing is pretty weird and people should just do what they think they should do (and maybe that includes some person writing a personal post on why they want to boycot the newspaper, in the hope to inspire some others, etc.).