Patrons Only: Slate Star Codex Versus The New York Times
It's Scott Alexander (SISKIND) versus Cade Metz! Also, Jesse's CRAZY story from his walk (you will not believe what happened), and his relentless feud with a dirtbag leftist who was mean to him once on Twitter.
Oh, and got a question for Dr. Erica Anderson? Just sent Jesse an email directly, with her name in the subject line, at jesse.r.singal@gmail.com. To get a better sense of her work, see her quotes here and here and here.
Show notes/Links:
The article that made everyone mad:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html
Alexander agreeing with Charles Murray(!):
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/23/three-great-articles-on-poverty-and-why-i-disagree-with-all-of-them/
Alexander on Charles Murray having racist beliefs:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/
The Google Memo (PDF): https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf
Men and women have pretty different interests, on average, and these differences are found across different cultures: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23179757_Sex_Differences_in_Personality_Traits_and_Gender-Related_Occupational_Preferences_across_53_Nations_Testing_Evolutionary_and_Social-Environmental_Theories
Katie on the U Washington Damore Memo blowup:
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/26/28210971/university-of-washington-computer-science-lecturer-explains-why-why-women-dont-code-chaos-ensues
Cordelia Fine doesn’t think the memo was so bad:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/16/james-damore-google-memo-interview-autism-regrets
Jesse’s mad tweet:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1360626887035338752
Scott Alexander’s response to the article and accusation of malicious intent:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times-article
The Fifth Column with Balaji Srinivasan, Conor Friedersdorf - “Predicting Pandemics, Fixing Journalism”: http://wethefifth.com/episodes/186-fixing-journalsim-cathcing-covid
Heather Cox Richardson profile:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html
“Sometimes feel bad because Michael and Jesse Singal respected me and wanted to be my friend but they had to settle for their fash fucking worms because they couldn’t cut it.”
https://twitter.com/lukeoneil47/status/1285348117362233344
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