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I Don't Speak German

82: Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth Sandifer

I Don't Speak German

IDSG

Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Another special episode this time, as we welcome to the show David Gerard, author of acclaimed takedown of cryptocurrency Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, and Elizabeth Sandifer, author of acclaimed takedown of neo-reaction Neoreaction a Basilisk, to discuss Scott Alexander (or is it Siskind?) and his blog Slate Star Codex, with digressions into Less Wrong, 'rationalism', and why David is responsible for Grimes hooking up with Elon Musk.

Content Warnings apply, as ever.

Also, we once again we have audio that doesn't quite meet our recent standards, though its perfectly listenable.

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Elizabeth's...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElSandifer

Site: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/elizabethsandifer

David's...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgerard

Site: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/overview

Elizabeth's recent article on Scott Alexander/Siskind: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/

RationalWiki on Scott Alexander: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is I don't speak German.

0:15.2

I'm Jack Graham, he, him, and in this podcast, I talk to my friend Daniel Harper,

0:20.8

also he, him, about what he learned from years of listening to today's Nazis,

0:26.5

white nationalists, white supremacists, and what they say to each other when they don't think

0:31.9

we're listening. Be warned, this is difficult subject matter. Content warnings always apply.

0:52.3

Hello and welcome to episode 82 of I Don't Speak German, the podcast that

0:56.0

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yeah, there's another very special episode this week,

1:00.8

where we have more people on the show than have ever been on before. Daniel, what's up with you

1:05.3

then at the moment? I'm doing all right. It warmed up here finally, so we're, you know, all the snow

1:10.4

is melted, which just means that the ice in the sun, my heart, it's not matched by the experience

1:17.1

of being outside, which is fine, I suppose. This is a podcast about the weather now. You didn't

1:24.0

yeah, no, we shifted, but that's we're just going to be covering climate change on a very,

1:29.5

very incremental basis of no, it's about the weather, but joining us for this episode, we have

1:36.2

two old cronies of mine, particularly Elizabeth Sandefur. Hello there. Hello, hello, and also

1:43.2

we're very honored as well as on being honored to have L here. We're very honored also to have

1:47.7

David Gerard with us. Good evening. So if you could just let us know who you are and what the

1:53.8

hell you're doing on this show, L, you stop. I'm Elizabeth Sandefur. I am the writer of a book

2:00.0

called Near Reaction Abassalist, which looks at the alt-right movement and also this weird thing

2:07.6

that we're going to be talking more about called the rationalist subculture and some people like it

2:13.8

and think it's good. Nobody likes near reactions at all. And I'm David Gerard. I am

2:23.9

the person who helped Elizabeth write near reaction abassalist. And I've been following these guys

2:31.1

for about a decade now. I do other things as well, mostly talking about why Bitcoin is stupid.

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