Matt Taibbi
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Matt Taibbi is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between March 01, 2022 and February 29, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “My brain has never been particularly good at distinguishing Tracey from the similarly-named Matt Taibbi”; “Here we have such famous names as… Matt Taibbi”; “Matt Taibbi writes about Hamilton 68”. It most often appears alongside Substack, China, New York City.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: March 01, 2022
- Last seen: February 29, 2024
Appears In
- Ukraine Warcasting
- Universe-Hopping Through Substack
- Links For February 2023
- Highlights From The Comments On Putin
- Links For February 2024
Related Pages
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- Substack (4 shared issues)
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- China (3 shared issues)
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- New York City (3 shared issues)
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- New York Times (3 shared issues)
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- Russia (3 shared issues)
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- US (3 shared issues)
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- Africa (2 shared issues)
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- Biden (2 shared issues)
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- Democrats (2 shared issues)
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- Estonia (2 shared issues)
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- FBI (2 shared issues)
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- FDA (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
My brain has never been particularly good at distinguishing Tracey from the similarly-named Matt Taibbi, but this is fine, Taibbi did the same thing.
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A bunch of leftists - Michael Tracey, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald - failed because they couldn’t believe that warmongering intelligence officials trying to scare everyone about Russia had a point. They admittedly had great heuristics: there are lots of warmongers, our intelligence community has been really wrong lots of times before, and the past few years have seen a lot of really embarrassing Russia-related paranoia. Unfortunately, the relevant Less Wrong post here is Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence, and the relevant ACX post is Heuristics That Almost Always Work, so they failed.
Fair decision, but Politics remains the core of Substack. Here we have such famous names as Bari Weiss, Michael Moore, and Matt Taibbi. 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has a Substack, as does leading ivermectin advocate Dr. Pierre Kory.
35: Matt Taibbi writes about Hamilton 68, supposedly a sophisticated group tracking Russian bot activity. The New York Times, MSNBC, and Politifact all wrote stories about Russian disinformation campaigns based on their research. Apparently new information reveals Hamilton 68 just sort of randomly declared normal human US conservative commentators “Russian bots” (along with a smattering of obvious Russian accounts like the Russia Today newspaper), tracked their activity to make a “Russian bot activity dashboard”, and hid this by refusing to release their list or explain their methodology. Seems bad.
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It is an unlikely theory because it presupposes a scenario somewhat like the following: Putin and some cronies sit around a table, brainstorming how to improve their popularity come the next election. Someone - let's call him Vlad - says: "How about killing hundreds of innocent countrymen by placing bombs in apartments and then blaming it on terrorists?" To which the others, assuming they are sane people who know a minimum of decision theory, are likely to say things like: "Great idea Vlad, you are always very creative at our meetings. But have you thought of the risks? For starters, dozens of people beside us in this room must be in on this in order for it to work, such as those who place the bombs, and we must be certain they will never talk, ever..." And: "Isn't it easier to simply rig the election?" And so on. (Matt Taibbi wrote a hilarious story along these lines related to the "9/11 was an inside job" conspiracy theory).
37: Did you know: Matt Taibbi used to play professional baseball in Uzbekistan - and, after that, professional basketball in Mongolia.
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