For all the other reasons that people on this site might hate this article, nevertheless it succeeds in doing the one thing that Scott asked of journalists: that they respect his pseudonym.
Scott had his panicked meltdown the second this guy started asking questions, which was probably just the beginning of the investigation.
You think the outfit that took down Weinstein cares about some SV tantrums?
The article was supposed to drop a couple weeks ago, the same week Scott took down his blog (if I remember correctly).
> Scott had his panicked meltdown the second this guy started asking questions, which was probably just the beginning of the investigation.
Pretty sure that's false.
> You think the outfit that took down Weinstein cares about some SV tantrums?
Taking down Weinstein was a noble endeavor. Taking down Scott is not. If you think the concern is just limited to SV, you are not reading the room.
Metz cares about access to SV sources, probably. I'll quote Nostalgebraist[0]:
> The journalist also written a soon-to-be-published book about AI work at “Google, Microsoft, Facebook and OpenAI,” whose blurb makes it sound impressed with its subjects, and also touts his “exclusive access to each of these companies.” So, this is someone whose career depends on being in the good graces of the big-name Silicon Valley crowd, and presumably cares a lot whether e.g. Paul Graham is mad at him.
I don't think you can do the sort of work Cade Metz wants to do if the first thing anyone from OpenAI thinks of when you write to them is "oh, it's that asshole that doxed Scott Alexander".
[0]: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/621772274317623296/my...