• @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    110 months ago

    OP link seems to be a personal blog.

    As soon as I saw the 90s website and conspiracy level picture I closed the link without reading.

      • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        210 months ago

        And he’s so proud of it that it was shut down when journalists “doxxed him” by saying what his real name was?

        I googled him tho, and he’s not a researcher or has ever done anything notable than that long rambling blog, he was so proud of he shut it down when he found it would be associated with him.

        Probably because of all the alt right bullshit and anti science shit he’s posted.

        “It is the one place I know of online where you can have civil conversations among people with a wide range of views,” said David Friedman, an economist and legal scholar who was a regular part of the discussion. Fellow commenters on the site, he noted, represented a wide cross-section of viewpoints. “They range politically from communist to anarcho-capitalist, religiously from Catholic to atheist, and professionally from a literal rocket scientist to a literal plumber — both of whom are interesting people.”

        The voices also included white supremacists and neo-fascists. The only people who struggled to be heard, Dr. Friedman said, were “social justice warriors.” They were considered a threat to one of the core beliefs driving the discussion: free speech.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html

        He told alt right tech bros what they wanted to hear, and you think that qualifies him to speak for the scientific community?

        He’s Joe Rogaine if he was smart enough to get a degree, but still dumb enough to rant about other shit he has no clue about

        Fucking Ben Carlson is a pretty good comparison to this guy