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Silicon Valley's safe space Cade Metz, New York Times Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE — Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, in New York, Jan. 7, 2017. The blog Slate Star Codex, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist, became the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists and a window into the psyche of many tech leaders. Then it disappeared. (Andrew White/The New York Times)Andrew White/NYT The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange name: Slate Star Codex. It was nominally a blog, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist who called himsel...

Last night, it occurred to me that despite how disjointed it feels, the New York Times piece does have a central thesis: namely, that rationalism is a “gateway drug” to dangerous beliefs. And that thesis is 100% correct—insofar as once you teach people that they can think for themselves about issues of consequence, some of them might think bad things. It’s just that many of us judge the benefit worth the risk! Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Back in June, New York Times technology reporter Cade Metz, who I’d previously known from his reporting on quantum computing, told me th...