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0 pointslliamander5y ago0 comments

Are you really incapable of seeing the distinction between being able to find a real name from the pseudonym, and being able to find the pseudonym from the real name?

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pseudalopex5y ago· 2 in thread

Both were possible already. People in the rationalist community discussed his pseudonymous writing using his real name.

lliamanderOP5y ago

Possible, yes. But not equally easy.

It's not like he was trying to hide from the NSA or anything. The goal was "I don't want my patients to see my blog on the first page of Google results when they search for my real name". The NYT completely obliterated that.

Additionally, the fact that the NYT chose to smear him means that now many potential patients may google his name, see the hit piece and nothing else, and decide "yikes, better not go there".

pseudalopex5y ago

The first page of Google results had pages that linked to his blog. And I think patients would be more likely to click on pages containing his name than an obscurely named blog.

The article wasn't flattering. It wasn't a smear or a hit piece.

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