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So your argument to dismiss this blogpost is guilt by association, am I understanding you correctly?

Yes, this is the current flavor of the month to show off one’s level of internet outrage. See: Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten.

It’s funny, I’d never heard of Scott before the HN outrage. I’m now a paying subscriber and have been enjoying his writing.

I've also enjoyed his writing but I can most certainly see his biases. He has a peculiar way of thoroughly researching some assumptions but then apparently having a complete blindspot to others, which is only made more apparently by how critically thinking all his posts are. I guess that's most people, though, they just rarely do so with the precision and eloquence of scott.

Have you seen this?

https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001

No, I haven't. Thanks for sending this over. I don't know the parties reporting.

Scott Alexander was recently exposed as horrifyingly racist and naive among other things. Just FYI.

https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001

The blog post's author lists a Ferriss book as one of his "3 favorite books" in a video on his channel, so it's more like "guilt by endorsement".

That's still guilt by association.

No. That is not what guilt by association means.

Yes. This article is about how to read a lot of books. In the author’s Youtube channel, he has Tim Ferris talking about speed reading. If the author is holding up that con artist as an exemplar, I will take the risk of skipping this post.

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