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moriarty: xmj, lol
moldbug is a blogger, i take it?
xmj: moriarty: much better to read
moldbug, be evil and call yourself royalist.
xmj: He seems to have been reading
Moldbug.
mircea_popescu: that reminds me BingoBoingo : i was gonna say i don't like curtis yarvin / mencius
moldbug for the following very specific reason - he sounds exactly like a propaganda job for smart people.
decimation: as
moldbug would say, the pro-state element survives on the promise of getting an ever shrinking shard of 'power'
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I think of
moldbug's post on hubristic user interfaces when I think of bad UI
decimation:
moldbug describes how all prices will be recalculated once the world passes from the dollar through the bitcoin-vortex
decimation: fluffypony have you read
moldbug on rhodesia?
decimation: as
moldbug points out, most folks want to be published in the 'grey lady'
decimation: "Consumer price indexes show negligible price changes in non-normalized accounting, not only because they are fudged and rigged, but because prices are set by dollars competing for goods. Because American spenders have fewer and fewer normalized dollars to spend every year, normalized consumer prices are also dropping. " - Mr.
moldbug decimation: yeah
moldbug talks about the same phenomenon in computer science
decimation: my brain recalls
moldbug's discussion of cis vs. trans democracy
decimation: mircea_popescu - your intro to the Hayek post calls to mind Mr.
Moldbug's point about "chronic kinglessness"
mircea_popescu: decimation> well with the quality of those arguments, the author is well on the way to becoming the anti-
Moldbug << something tells me the author spent his youth clicking through cat pictures while someone on the phone was tryhing to educate them.
decimation: well with the quality of those arguments, the author is well on the way to becoming the anti-
Moldbug decimation: Well duh. "As I soldiered through the
Moldbug canon, my reactions numbed. Here he is expressing sympathy for poor, persecuted Senator Joe McCarthy. Big surprise. Here he claims ?America is a communist country.? Sure, whatever."
decimation: LoL that
Moldbug hit piece. "Why bother with mass appeal, when you?re rebuilding the ancien regime?"
HeySteve: checking out this
Moldbug guy, sounds interesting
bitcoinpete: "In short,
Moldbug reads like an overconfident autodidact’s imitation of a Lewis Lapham essay—if Lewis Lapham were a fascist teenage Dungeon Master."
bitcoinpete: it's asciilifeform that's the big
moldbug fan, right?
decimation: even if it's gold micrograms encased in lucite like
Moldbug suggested
mircea_popescu: <decimation> as you have found,
moldbug himself is extremely reluctant to take any action that might have second or third-order effects that displease USG <<< that sorta thing.
decimation: as you have found,
moldbug himself is extremely reluctant to take any action that might have second or third-order effects that displease USG
dignork: asciilifeform, btw thank you for refernce to
moldbug, his texts are pretty amusing
decimation: So to answer
Moldbug: Monetary dillusion could be used as a way to reduce crime - by redistributing wealth (just enough) to keep crime down and businesses open
decimation: yeah that's a pretty good point.
Moldbug has a point about closed currencies, but your point goes to human nature - something that "economists" often famously ignore.
ozbot: Unqualified Reservations: The Hanson-
Moldbug debate
mircea_popescu: so basically
moldbug's september 2009 write-up on communism and whatnot is chiefly notable for his very good points on charity vs w/e, "callous altruism".
decimation: ascii, do you believe in
Moldbug's "Hitler invaded Russia in self defense idea"?
decimation:
Moldbug is more-or-less correct about the power that rules the us; it's the coordinated actions of the media, civil service, and academia (and all their attachments)
mircea_popescu: actually, did
moldbug&co ever manage to stop urbit from crashing ?
decimation:
Moldbug would seem to argue that Bitcoin is harder than gold, by virtue of its finite supply
decimation: herbijudlestoids did you read the
moldbug essay to which your FOFOA link points?
mircea_popescu: tbh, it probably could be said that unlike the
moldbug fellow i have the advantage of not reallty giving a shiot avbout the us government
jurov: guys, who is this
moldbug? some mythical figure?
benkay: I hope that Mencius
Moldbug engages with you on this one, MP
mircea_popescu:
moldbug still hasn't got his ballsack together to answer incidentally.