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mp_en_viaje: i
still don;t perceive the difference between above quited john d. and historical curtis y, or
tucker m. or etc. this may be a failure of my differentiator, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: actually... he's about exactly everything
moldbug. except older version = better read.
mircea_popescu: of course it is. 100% of "discussing" "events" "news" and "politics" is this. what else is orlov,
moldbug, wha have you ?
erlehmann: i often have the problem that i describe a position and then people think i support it. i stopped describing
moldbug's ramblings because of that, though i find urbit in particular a quite good idiot test.
BingoBoingo:
Moldbug presented as stale cubile rage vessel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the naming convention (
moldbug, marlinspike, etcetera) suggests someone in an office farm in maryland./
erlehmann: asciilifeform maybe
moldbug imagined himself steve jobs, who also sometimes lied brazenly.
erlehmann: i must admit
moldbug is pretty good at creating memetic hazards
ben_vulpes: the memory fabricator is in full swing over here. wants to say that it was a tome that fell out of a
moldbug piece but i really have nfi.
decimation: TheNewDeal: I have no problem with catholics, but what's not obvious from what I pasted is that
moldbug is making a point about being submerged in a particular point of view from birth
trinque: heh so far ate
moldbug and uncle al's sites
decimation: asciilifeform: I kinda arrived at this thesis from a theological perspective earlier, which is also why
moldbug appealed
decimation: mircea_popescu: I think that was after
moldbug's article
decimation: cazalla: it's like someone read
moldbug but was unable to comprehend the parts about how this kind of action is hopeless
decimation: the best I can tell usian muggles exhibit 'learned helplessness' that
moldbug writes about
decimation: sure, but that's a distinction between 'a state' and 'the modern structure' (as
moldbug would put it)
danielpbarron: >> Glad to see
Moldbug now gone from the @strangeloop_stl speaker list. I'm sure he wouldn't have been there at all if they'd known about him.
danielpbarron: that "
moldbug" guy got kicked out of some tech conference
decimation: of course, as
moldbug said, actual nazis would ahve been horrified by these guys
mircea_popescu: (as the above explanation, consider
moldbug's very valid discussion of the guy with the ring that could kill. he who is secure in his authority makes excellent leadership. he who is not - horribru)
decimation: asciilifeform: and I agree with
moldbug - it is long in the tooth
decimation: as I recall
moldbug once linked to some pretty convincing evidence re:ayers wrote obama's autobiography
decimation: well,
moldbug would say that the improvement was that there was an actual human the da 'was responsible' to
decimation: re: the gray journal: vintage
moldbug > "Of course, they can't do much. You can't submit to the gray journal. There is no formal review process. You simply have to know someone who knows someone who... and who is on the end of this chain? Five or ten very ordinary people, with no particular expertise in anything, perhaps a BA in some science or other. Who happen to have gotten themselves assigned, through whatever feat of
decimation:
moldbug would say that pinker would gladly suck the cock of a nyt writer so he can be published in the 'grey lady'
decimation: well, munger comes to the same conclusion as
moldbug, that is usg is highly resistant to voting - because to be otherwise would be terrifying
decimation:
moldbug has a quote that implicates FDR in covering for the soviets for Katyn
decimation:
moldbug thought the us would jail exchanges/possessors, but usg lost the initiative on that one
decimation: I like
moldbug's theory: those 'with a brain' are generally engaged in spending all their time battling each other
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> he posts a ton of extremely ambitious ideas i'd love to see him come through on one of them << you have to understand this is now, thanks to
moldbug et all, an internet pose.
decimation:
moldbug has a post about why central banks spend most of their time trying to figure out how to not move the market
decimation: adlai: recently i've become a fan of arvo pärt (yes, via
moldbug)
mircea_popescu: i see the guy's been pouring out a coupla million words, which is more than
moldbug, but i won't be bothering to actually read the shit, it's too stale.
decimation: generally, my understanding is that 'paleoconservatives' want to wind us society back to something resembling the 'cis-democracy' in that
moldbug peice
decimation: asciilifeform: most of them would agree with
moldbug's analysis that they believe paying tax is 'i gave at the office'
decimation: asciilifeform: but the 'plum book wot' isn't really going to modify what the career bureaucrats think, see
moldbug decimation:
moldbug had a piece on this, then tried to invent some 'tarded 'antiversity' thing
decimation:
moldbug would say that this wound provides infinite employment for nulands
decimation:
moldbug repurposed (re-re-repurposed?) the word "brahmin" to mean something like 'modern liberal elite'
mircea_popescu: the_scourge: wait, are you suggesting that socialism isn't part of The Cathedral? << a) "the cathedral" is about as solid a concept as
moldbug's new os.
the_scourge: trinque: ok, having experienced both, i'm pretty sure old
moldbug is a much better mindfuck
the_scourge: or shayetet13 - i wasn't young or patriotic ... and i wasn't when i got a good slot in the british military. i was having the same thoughts as
moldbug, but instead of blogging about it i decided to become as deadly as possible in as short amount of time as possible
decimation: I remember when
moldbug put up his first 'begging' post - it was obvious the gig was up
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal most of what the man ever writes is golden. and unlike derps like
moldbug or orlov, he a) isn't putting annoyingly self-advertising and b) doesn't actually have a pro-state agenda
mircea_popescu: cause idiot females too busy with "transgender friends" and idiot males too busy reading
moldbug.
decimation: really,
moldbug 'needs' at least a few $bil to make hardware
decimation: asciilifeform:
moldbug hasn't make something 'useful' of urbit yet?
decimation:
moldbug's analogy if I recall is a fisherman saving fish
decimation:
moldbug's theory is that this is derived from game theory, in the sense that every actor wants to pick the best savings medium, which is the thing that everyone else is planning to save in
decimation: adlai: there's some degree of that, but money also acts as an asset. In
moldbug's terms, it's the 'bubble that never pops'
decimation: I don't think what we do here is '
moldbug studies' but I think the channel is at friendly to some of his conclusions
decimation: Think of it in “Lux Aeterna" as
moldbug would say. The interesting thing really is to examine this completely artificial crisis - who benefits?
mircea_popescu: johntraveller chan's kinda on the fence re
moldbug. you can search for him to get the various discussions if you care.
johntraveller: so
moldbug/yarvin was a typical california libertarian who dropped a lot of acid
assbot: Unqualified Reservations: The Mencius
Moldbug Babysitting Fund
decimation: it's pretty much a crypto-rehash of
moldbug's red/blue distinction but written to appeal to liberals