Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
The beauty of the article is in exposing the fundamentally emotional, illogical reaction of the SSC&#x27;s author and associated community. For a group that seems to value dispassionate rationality and intelligence as inherently morally good, their overreaction to this unpublished article is deliciously ironic. Instead of allowing the &quot;marketplace of ideas&quot; to play out, Scott Alexander decided to take his ball and go home.<p>Ultimately discrediting the &quot;rationalist&quot; ideology was as easy as making them angry.