# I Hate Journalism’s Culture of Casual Calumny  ## Metadata - Author: [[Jesse Singal]] - Full Title: I Hate Journalism’s Culture of Casual Calumny - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Jesse Singal criticizes a trend in journalism he calls the "culture of casual calumny," where writers attack reputations and favor accusation over fair explanation. He uses Taylor Lorenz's piece on Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares as an example of unfair, caricaturing coverage. Singal urges more levelheaded reporting and less reflexive, reputational smearing. - URL: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/i-hate-journalisms-culture-of-casual - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > I clicked on the document. It isn’t a set of rules you *need to* abide by to be granted the privilege of talking to Nate Soares. It’s an *extremely* [rationalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalist_community)-coded “handbook.” “There’s a pattern to the ways that conversations with me go poorly (when they go poorly at all),” the “Purpose” section explains. “If my conversation partners know what those patterns are, they’re easier to avoid.” The handbook comes off as a bit kooky, sure, but less so if you’re familiar with the rationalists. They’re obsessed with clear thinking and communication, and they’ve developed a related obsession with “failure modes,” or with naming the specific ways thinking and communicating can go wrong. They basically (to oversimplify) take an engineering approach to many features of human life and society that people tend to take for granted, or to not think all that deeply about. To those unfamiliar with this style of thinking, it can come across as weird or stilted. (I say this as a general fan and sympathizer of a lot of what rationalists do, albeit with some natural caveats.) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kas05qjs8m30sx1jm503aj93))