Isn't "Scott Alexander" his first and middle name? Did he actually use his last name on his blog before the NYT published that piece?
And he has already lost the job he was trying to protect back then. Now AFAIK his main source of income are subscriptions on Substack, and obviously those are not threatened in any way by having his name mentioned one more time.
Please let's respect each other's intelligence by not playing the game of pretending that posting Scott's full name before 2021 is the same as posting Scott's full name after 2021.
So, do you have examples of "some of his best-known posts published under his own name" before 2021?
Is this information surprising for you?
Title of the post is "Hail Scott Siskind" from Robin Hanson's blog Overcoming Bias. This blog was a central point of the early rationalist movement.
Notably, posts like this were scrubbed some time near the New York Times debacle. There was an active effort to scrub mentions of "Siskind" from rationalist adjacent blogs around that time.
It was amazingly effective at rewriting the history. You won't find any mention of the activities to scrub "Siskind" from the rationalist blogs, though.