until the NYT outs you, see for example what happened with the slate star codex:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-...
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-...
just because someone with a lot of time on their hands could technically have found his real name does not conflict with the parent's point.
I don't understand how people make this claim when had given out most of his real name, his profession, his state, and the kind of work he did.
Finding SSC from his real name was easy, and finding his real name from SSC was easy.
From his hand: “To stay anonymous, I wrote it under my first and middle names – Scott Alexander – while leaving out my last name.”
This is hardly a major attempt at anonymity.
Not that it matters but I’m very much in favour of remaining anonymous. I also am a fan of his writing.
Well, it's an attempt at pseudonymity, not anonymity.
And it's a pretty weak attempt at that, too.