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Mencius Moldbug
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Mencius Moldbug's personal blog at unqualified-reservations.org covers politics and philosophy. Since 2019, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Sam Altman Is Not a Blithering Idiot (2013)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 5 of 32 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mencius Moldbug's (Curtis Yarvin's) blog for its political essays, such as the Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives, uberfact, and the true election proposal, and as background to Urbit.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 32 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Unqualified Reservations by Mencius Moldbug. Ebook links and full chronological archive. An introduction to neoreaction (NRx).
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-11
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-02
- /2010/03/future-of-search/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-07
- /2008/04/open-letter-to-open-minded-progressives/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-15
- Sam Altman Is Not a Blithering Idiot (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-20
- /2008/11/patchwork-positive-vision-part-1/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-01
What Hacker News says?
Isn't this just the Dark Enlightenment that Curtis Yarvin has espoused and Thiel, Musk, and JD Vance have also endorsed? TL;DR - Dictatorships are superior to democracy, and quick executive actions that replace legislative responsibilities with the tacit endorsement of judicial and legislative branches are functionally the same. The foundations for this were laid when Trump got so many Federalist judges approved las…
Comment linking /2008/11/patchwork-2-profit-strategies-for-our/
on “The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE”Submitted Sam Altman is not a blithering idiot (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAgain, it's all part of the plan, which is referred to as the butterfly revolution, by Curtis Yarvin. Leaders that have literally invested in this platform are buying into this nonsense. These guys have polarized the two parties to a point all weaknesses are surfacing. It isn't about democrats vs republicans. It's just working class vs the billionaires. You know the ppl sitting behind Trump at his inauguration. Lite…
Comment linking /2008/11/patchwork-p
on “Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations”Submitted I Stopped Believing in Democracy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat post, I think you’d get a lot out of reading this old blog post on Unqualified Reservations — Is journalism official? https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/is-journali...
Comment linking /2007/09/is-journalism-official/
on “Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes”Submitted The Anarchy – Unqualified Reservations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI 100% disagree, the central planning of money is (1) what causes inflation, and (2) greatly exacerbates (and in many cases creates) financial crises. Any supply of money will do, the idea that money should increase in supply along with population growth (or some other arbitrary metric) otherwise we’ll permanently live in a deflationary disaster is an imagined monster — we live in the here and now, therefore people…
Comment linking /2008/10/misesian-explanation-of-bank-crisis/
on “A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency”Submitted Sam Altman Is Not a Blithering Idiot (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's all part of the plan, which is referred to as the butterfly revolution, by Curtis Yarvin. Leaders that have literally invested in this platform are buying into this nonsense. Peter Theil, JD Vance, Marc Andreesen, Garry Tan, Srinivasan, and many others, wanting to overthrow democracy and dissolve nation states. This effort is to establish Network States with those that worship them, sycophants and cults. They w…
Comment linking /2008/11/patchwork-positive-vision-part-1/
on “4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program”Submitted Professor Krugman on Maturity Transformation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe obscurity and inaccessibility are classic cult tactics. The obscurity and inaccessibility and weird terminology is not there to provide functionality, it's there solely to mislead, to make it appear that there's something deep and mysterious going on that only the elect and enlightened can access. (They even admit as much: "Hoon, for the most part, is weird by design...") If you actually dig into the technical d…
Comment linking /2008/11/patchwork-positive-vision-part-1/
on “Urbit”Here is the ending of the second-to-last entry in Unqualified Reservations by Curtis Yarvin (AKA Mencius Moldbug)[0]: > Anyway. UR will reemerge, of course. But not here, and not soon—and probably not even in this form. I’ll also try to do something non-lame with the archives. Thanks for reading! If the name alone isn't enough, I feel like this context makes it pretty obvious that he named Urbit after his racist blo…
Comment linking /2014/08/hiatus/
on “Urbit”I can't find that quote by searching the text of the linked article. I was looking for it because I'm skeptical of the claim that Yarvin supports a society with multiple shareholders of political power. I read the archives of Unqualified Reservations when Urbit was first released, and I was left with the impression that Yarvin supported the rule of literally one person. This is the closest quote I've found so far, b…
Comment linking /2010/02/from-mises-to-carlyle-my-sick-journey/
on “Urbit”That speaker wasn't just anybody with 'right-wing views', it was 'Mencius Moldbug' himself. (See, for example: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/09/technology-... )
Comment linking /2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare/
on “Scala isn't fun anymore”This post in which he declares that he isn't white nationalist https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/11/why-i-am-no... is full of weird apologist asides and reads like "I'm not, or maybe I kind of am but not, but I can see why some people are, and other things are bad too, and maybe this isn't so bad". "So we see that, at present, in the real world of 2007, there is no coherent moral or practical reason to s…
Comment linking /2007/11/why-i-am-not-white-nationalist/
on “Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane”https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/08/uberfact-ul... would be an answer form an old school blogger
Comment linking /2007/08/uberfact-ultimate-social-verifier/
on “Grokipedia by xAI”Getting the cloudflare error as well. Nevertheless this reminds me of an old Curtis Yarvin post on his proposal for a meta-wikipedia. "Uberfact". He's not everyone's cup of tea but I quite enjoy this article of his - https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/08/uberfact-ul...
Comment linking /2007/08/uberfact-ultimate-social-verifier/
on “Grokipedia by xAI”That "just" is doing a lot of work. It seems to me that many of these "rationalize all the things" schemes tend to bottom out at and build onto an "incorruptible kernel of truth" which, if corrupted, causes the whole thing to collapse (or worse: have a veneer of impartial truth while being secretly corrupt). It's a sort of microkernel approach to government. With Hanson's futarchy, it's the hypothetical mechanism fo…
Comment linking /2008/05/ol6-lost-theory-of-government/
on “Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets”You are onto something here. If this topic interests you, there are worse places than https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/ . The writing style can be challenging at times, but it will answer some of your questions.
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on “Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine”Sorry, this is just completely wrong, at least regarding Moldbug. > I remember his moldbug persona from the blog-o-sphere back in the mid/late aughts as someone who would write long meandering posts in the comment section of pickup artist blog He got his start on the 2blowhards blog, which was not about pickup artistry at all. While I suppose it's possible he left comments on pickup artist blogs, he never wrote abou…
Comment linking /2013/06/civil-liberties-and-single-reactionary/
on “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”I presume the author is referring to this blogpost[1]. The proposed name of the system is actually "Feudle", which might have made it harder to find for you. The word "woke" did indeed not make an appearence, but this choice quote: "Eventually, all desirable content will move out of the anarchic slums and into this new, happy gated community. And junkies will be shooting up in the old Google building." His idea seem…
Comment linking /2010/03/future-of-search/
on “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”Maybe it was a typo? https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/03/future-of-s...
Comment linking /2010/03/future-of-search/
on “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”I would give historians a little bit more credit than that. Sure if you have some agenda and something too proof then you just have to go back X years to find something like a justification. The other day I was reading the transcript of the testimony of a Nazi SS officer at the Nuremberg trail that executed multiple extermination camp wardens and guards for the crime of lacking the right paper work for the killing o…
Comment linking /2011/10/holocaust-nazi-perspective/
on “If the news is fake, imagine history”Gotcha, I suggest checking this out, it’s rather long and mind-bending (but what good political treatise isn’t?) and I think will change your perspective on the matter. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/04/open-letter...
Comment linking /2008/04/open-letter-to-open-minded-progressives/
on “Buckminster Fuller on technology and useless jobs”Aaron had a history of depression and suicidal ideation that long predates his prosecution. Also: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/01/noam-chomsk...
Comment linking /2013/01/noam-chomsky-killed-aaron-swartz/
on “Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence”do you really believe that someone who writes so terribly is also writing with "erudition, scholarship and analytical ability"? I recently reread his "Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives"[1]. When it came out in 2008, I thought it was brilliant. Rereading it now, I find it both brilliant and prescient. Here for example he casually predicts the strategy used by our current president: Fourth, there is another way…
Comment linking /2008/04/open-letter-to-open-minded-progressives/
on “A Founder's Farewell”> The sovereign is he who selects the null hypothesis. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2012/11/adore-river...
Comment linking /2012/11/adore-river-of-meat/
on “Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)”https://web.archive.org/web/20070613184827/http://yudkowsky.... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html https://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html#HTDO https://unqualified-reservations.org/2008/04/open-letter-to-... http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopi1.html
Comment linking /2008/04/open-letter-to-open-minded-progressives/
on “Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery”https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2011/10/personal-cl...
Comment linking /2011/10/personal-cloud-computing-in-2020-or-not/
on “Urbit Precepts Discussion”This is the link to the blog post: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2011/10/personal-cl...
Comment linking /2011/10/personal-cloud-computing-in-2020-or-not/
on “Urbit Precepts Discussion”
