[Link] Still Alive - Astral Codex Ten

post by jimrandomh · 2021-01-21T23:20:03.782Z · LW · GW · 10 comments

This is a link post for https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

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This was a triumph
I'm making a note here, huge success

No, seriously, it was awful. I deleted my blog of 1,557 posts. I wanted to protect my privacy, but I ended up with articles about me in New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast. I wanted to protect my anonymity, but I Streisand-Effected myself, and a bunch of trolls went around posting my real name everywhere they could find. I wanted to avoid losing my day job, but ended up quitting so they wouldn't be affected by the fallout. I lost a five-digit sum in advertising and Patreon fees. I accidentally sent about three hundred emails to each of five thousand people in the process of trying to put my blog back up.

I had, not to mince words about it, a really weird year.

The first post on Scott Alexander's new blog on Substack, Astral Codex Ten.

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comment by Dirichlet-to-Neumann · 2021-01-22T18:44:41.955Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Good news : slate star codex is up again.
Bad news : I've been singing "still alive" since this morning and it's driving me crazy.

comment by lsusr · 2021-01-22T01:42:45.464Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This is a good post even compared to Scott Alexander's typical post.

comment by Dirichlet-to-Neumann · 2021-01-22T10:39:55.838Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

That's some great news !

comment by Baisius · 2021-01-22T17:36:06.556Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Does Scott's contract with Substack prevent automatic cross-posting here? I really do loathe Substack as a UI.

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↑ comment by ChristianKl · 2021-01-22T19:53:43.569Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

We never had automatic crossposting with SlateStarCodex, so it's not trival to say that we should have it now with the new website. 

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↑ comment by Baisius · 2021-01-24T13:30:33.935Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Interesting. I didn't realize that (wasn't active on LW at the time). Is Scott not interested in cross posting?

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↑ comment by ChristianKl · 2021-01-24T16:38:29.429Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Some of Scotts posts draw a lot of political discussion and there are concerns to what extend it's good to have those posts on LessWrong. 

The decision to import posts was made on a case by case basis, I'm not sure whether by Scott or someone else. 

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↑ comment by habryka (habryka4) · 2021-01-24T21:05:33.242Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Made by Scott. We gave him a tag he could apply to posts that would automatically cause that post to crosspost. Good chance we will set up something similar for the new blog (if possible).

↑ comment by Dagon · 2021-01-22T18:18:02.678Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Inoreader lets me subscribe to the feed (URL https://astralcodexten.substack.com/feed/, which looks like standard RSS to me), so it doesn't seem that Substack is intentionally limiting access to their site.