Wow Curtis Yarvin is fucking dumb, huh? And I don’t mean in a ‘everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot’ way, there are some people who have espoused views I find abhorrent that are clearly intelligent, like he legit does not know what he’s talking about.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lm36nk/comment/gntraiv/
It's true he's not a follower of Yarvin, but it's easy to see how much common ground they share.
https://youtu.be/qqHueZNEzig
And the so-called right-wing tech "geniuses" (aka VCers)--who are philosophically illiterate and ethically stunted--gulp it down like it's ketamine!
and how evil, poly people are often swept up in dumb cults with dumb cult leaders but that is one type of culture in the many cultures
funded by evil yet was semi good
Conspiratuality pod also, ep. 251
He’s not a man of substance.
I want the 2 hours I wasted reading him back.
(Recall that most Nazi "intellectuals" were godawful as well)
Yarvin has referenced that essay but if you read that specific essay it wasn't Moldbug
Yarvin couldn't plan and execute a mission to McDonald's.
Moldbug is a step beyond that stupidity, of course...
Like if you owned several yachts would the ideas seem better?
Genuinely curious
Which, admittedly, covers most of his audience, including the techbro billionaires.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/clear-thinking-v-curtis-yarvin
Decoding the Gurus - Curtis Yarvin: The Edgelord's Guide to Monarchy 40K https://app.podcastguru.io/podcast/1531266667/episode/235701894
He went to Brown.
And out of respect for honesty I simply refuse to play and pretend that they are worthwhile.
Most people grow out of that (both doing it and listening to it). Unfortunately, not everyone.
Of course, the reason why SSC was so opaque is because he needs to obscure the journey to full Bell Curve Caliper Measureheadism to others but mostly to himself.
I've been following this whole mess since it was the new atheists, there's been a cadre of these guys who have wanted to break out calipers so bad.
But it’s skating darn close to at least late stage Christopher Hitchens.
the shell of reality that hides the inverted world
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatishchev_information
can you determine the separation of one’s imaginary and the reality out there outside your images and symbolic reach ? How they are similar yet not the same ?
https://bsky.app/profile/roland00.bsky.social/post/3lmn6rr35xs2q
Manufacturers need to combine it with the stew that makes you go blind for twelve hours, so they can't go on social media
Programming is not just very blue collar stuff, it legit saturates and bends your mind in way that make you dumb as fuck.
As a Jewish man with a Catholic mother, I am as confused as the rest of you.
For those curious 🧐
Our only hope now is that smarter rank and file see it and have an “uh oh” epiphany.
It's weird to be arguing with a group of stupid people!
It's all veneer for idiocy though.
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are often archaic bizarre shit discarded long ago for not working (and being racist)
especially when a large part of said plot is demonstrating exactly why this idea is stupid and dumb
Point stands: platforming bad ideas just makes bad ideas spread.
We all need to get better at attacking these ideas from a first-principles standpoint.
It would help Dems, I think, to dispense with assuming they can defeat opponents simply because they are weird or repugnant
The type to fight Nazis with polite requests.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jwn4v5fwofxswn2cau46su4x/post/3lmnitasjpk2b
Also, he does not take a good picture
Fucking rag.