Go read this New York Times report on SlateStarCodex and Silicon Valley tech leaders

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Last year, the unacknowledged writer defaultant the SlateStarCodex blog abruptly shut it down, ultimatum a forthcoming thrill from The New York Times was going to reveal his real name as well-built as potentially put him in danger. Anchorman Cade Metz says he was actualized to efficiently gathering the blogger's real name --Scott Siskind-- online. Post-obit a farewell column on the blog, Metz says he as well-built as his editor were harassed online by its evil fans. Now, Metz's simulcast on SlateStarCodex as well-built as the philosophical views that made it therefore popular is inescapably here. It's a compelling attending at the mindset interpolated many in Silicon Valley's tech industry.

It was nominally a blog, written by a Bay Latitude analyst who alleged himself Scott Alexander (a near anagram of Slate Star Codex). It was conjointly the epicenter of a overtone alleged the Rationalists, a group that aimed to trammels the apple through slumberous as well-built as circumstantiated thought

Rationalists, Metz writes, naturalize AI could sooner destroy the world. Many were very into the musings on SlateStarCodex. The blog was read by top adventure capitalists as well-built as startup leaders, he writes, who go-go it was up to them to build AI in a unscarred way. Most wrapped a implanted disbelief of mainstream media (and some well-fixed designful means to target a "single wieldy hostile reporter" for doxxing).

Part of the begetting of Slate Star Codex, fatherly readers said, was Mr. Siskind's willingness to step alfresco cozy topics. Except he wrote in a wordy, often winding way that larboard many wondering what he really believed.

Metz goes downreaching into the cross-mate of capacity SlateStarCodex touched on as well-built as how the blog resonated with contrarians in Silicon Valley as well-built as others with increasingly farthermost views. Siskind has since reinstated old SlateStarCodex posts, as well-built as has launched a Substack newsletter for his elongated musings zone he towards his real name..

Anyone who covers or plays dense salvation to Silicon Valley as well-built as its tech culture has been witnessing this atmosphere of astriction for some time. Tech visitor leaders hypothesize a very specific visitation of what constitutes "free speech," as well-built as many prefer not to hypothesize their views challenged by journalists. Except Metz's commodity suggests that there's admittedly a imagistic philosophy, boundlessness libertarianism, one which most tech industry leaders would prefer be kept quiet. Go read his fascinating commodity Silicon Valley's Unscarred Space.

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