He's been banging on about this endlessly over on his own blog or Substack or whatever it is. Fine, that's his space and he can do what he wants there. But he's also constantly issuing challenges to Scott and now he's come on here, still chasing that car.
I'm not convinced by what he says, and I'm not eager to wade back into the same fight because I'm tired of the same old "Scott Alexander is wrong and should admit it publicly everywhere!" And by the looks of it, neither is anyone else on here as of now.
The problem isn't that he's making the argument, or even that he's making the argument repeatedly; the problem is that he's exclusively using this site as a sounding board for his hobby-horse and driving traffic to his blog. I don't have any problem with someone using this space to do either of these two things independently. Beej has always linked to his blog, and he has his hobby-horses. But he's also a regular contributor (and mod of the old subreddit), and his hobby-horses weren't single, narrow topics. Alexandros's contributions to this site so far have been one bare link to his Substack and 4 comments defending it. And all his Substack seems to talk about is how Ivermectin is actually a good COVID treatment.
I still don't see where the problem is. The topic is important, and relevant to the community for at least 2 reasons (covid, and Scott), Alexandros seems to be coming over to have his arguments criticized, to see if he can correct or improve his work, which in my opinion is a laudable goal...
I suppose I can understand being fed up and wanting to move on, but seriously, in that case just ignore him. Block him if you have to.
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He's been banging on about this endlessly over on his own blog or Substack or whatever it is. Fine, that's his space and he can do what he wants there. But he's also constantly issuing challenges to Scott and now he's come on here, still chasing that car.
I'm not convinced by what he says, and I'm not eager to wade back into the same fight because I'm tired of the same old "Scott Alexander is wrong and should admit it publicly everywhere!" And by the looks of it, neither is anyone else on here as of now.
The problem isn't that he's making the argument, or even that he's making the argument repeatedly; the problem is that he's exclusively using this site as a sounding board for his hobby-horse and driving traffic to his blog. I don't have any problem with someone using this space to do either of these two things independently. Beej has always linked to his blog, and he has his hobby-horses. But he's also a regular contributor (and mod of the old subreddit), and his hobby-horses weren't single, narrow topics. Alexandros's contributions to this site so far have been one bare link to his Substack and 4 comments defending it. And all his Substack seems to talk about is how Ivermectin is actually a good COVID treatment.
I still don't see where the problem is. The topic is important, and relevant to the community for at least 2 reasons (covid, and Scott), Alexandros seems to be coming over to have his arguments criticized, to see if he can correct or improve his work, which in my opinion is a laudable goal...
I suppose I can understand being fed up and wanting to move on, but seriously, in that case just ignore him. Block him if you have to.
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In that case I think the correct response would be just to ignore the content and move on.
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