Wow I learned even more horrifying things about Yarvin from this.

Perfect comment, no notes.

Gotta love how the SRD thread has more comments and updoots than the original.

Already asked and answered elsewhere in the comments.

Edit see https://awful.systems/post/1587716

Something something poker up his backside.

HN gets the news

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065862

Choice entry: Oxford dumped them because CS Lewis taught there and he would have hated them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40066549

Also standard orange site/tech views on race and IQ...

JWZ once said that every platform eventually evolves into being able to send email and allowing its users to flirt and hook up. I dunno if Urbit has reached that stage.

You still need to lever that money by "buying" the people in power.

Right now there's really no mainstream politicians 100% on board with the weirdness of TESCREALs:

• mainstream Democrats - too wary of corporations, too eager to regulate
• pre-Trump GOP - maybe, but they're losing influence fast
• current Trump GOP - literally crazy, way too easy for TESCREALs to be painted as a satanic cult

Something something Sparta

Only someone with high INT can discover this brilliant theory. As luck would have it, they have high CHR too!

NatSec types, being naturally paranoid and probably inherently rightwing, would probably be drawn to EA like flies on shit.

Incidentally, in Sterling’s Heavy Weather there’s a description of a group of dark triad negative EA types, where smart people are recruited to lower the population of the book’s grimdark future.

Yes, that's the other Scott. Scott Alexander tries to project an air of sexual superiority, while Scott Aaronsson's whole self-identification is that it's a literal gift from God that he managed to find someone to marry.