After they published that piece (which was misleading and deeply unethical, not just 'critical', by the way), he wrote this:

> I have no particular call for action. Please don’t cause any trouble for the journalist involved, both because that would be wrong, and because I suspect he did not personally want to write this and was pressured into it as part of the Times’ retaliatory measures against me.

(https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times...)

Before that, he did ask for public commentary on their plan to reveal his real name; maybe that's what you were thinking of.

(Before your post was edited, it was originally a comment that misrepresented the history of the NY Times piece by claiming he 'sent a flood of internet crazies' at them after they wrote it.)