Let s talk about the grand
Slate Star Codex brouhaha.
A lot of people have already written about this. Here is the original
New Yorker essay from last June is probably the best “neutral” piece that has been written yet; If you do not know anything about
Slate Star Codex or why so many people are writing about it now, start there. Sebastian Benthall s commentary is also a very good middle ground analysis.[4]
I am sure there has been a great deal of debate on twitter as well. I have not read it and thus cannot link to it: I unfollowed everyone on Twitter except a handful of newspapers and thus dwell in blissful ignorance. Indeed, from the perspective of one slowly letting go of Twitter following this debate has been great fun. Linking to all those blogs and substacks feels like reliving a memory from an older, better internet.