In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote
For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.
Looks like great minds think alike! The EA’s need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!
The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence
I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it’s like the HackerNews comment section but in person.
What’s the German term for a recommendation that’s the exact opposite?
Sometimes when you very carefully triangulate yourself into a center, everyone despises you for being a sniveling wimp with no convictions.
I’m pretty sure Scott is angling for a well-paid sinecure at some network or big remaining newspaper, but he’s not been able to break out into that rarefied space of US media. And he’s not yet given up and given in to the urges to just go balls-to-the-walls racist to get sweet substack dosh.
I think it is more likely that Scott is a true believer in EA/Rationalism and NRx and wants to combine it all in some weird mass where people who dismiss things by saying ‘fuck you arguing for eugenics is crazy’ get expelled while the eugenics argument stays up. The sexless beige marketplace of ideas given flesh. [Lovecrafting description of the flesh removed, reached my quota of inflicting people horrible mind images for this month].
He’s lately been giving in to the urges more and more:
Slurs are fine, actually.
Expansion of the ‘not provably not correct’ eugenics thing into a massive TLDR that I ain’t reading