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spent 3 hours reading Mencius Moldbug. First of all, what a name.
his writing is, incomprehensible, or, caters to a clique.
Opaque, elitist, and holier than thou.
Lots assumptions. It assumes, for example, you are acquainted with the literature of the history of western politics.
1 article of his, will take you 2 hours to read. and that's only superficially. Instead, you skim and scan, not for understanding, but feel where he's going.
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i was, lying in bed, unassuming, trying to do my daily routine of googling
who mentioned me. Then, there it is, loper-os.org , a classic, old,
common lisper, who has me mentioned in his blog roll, for years. And, just above my name,
, there it is: Unqualified Reservations, the blog of Mencius Moldbug.
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but wait. This loper guy, i don't know who he is, but he seems to be a classic hacker. “Hacker” here means, real programer who knows his stuff, in depth, from programing langage down to the cpu. Anyway, he's got some interesting writing. go check it out sometimes.
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the Mencius Moldbug guy, is inventor of some obscure tech called urbit, which i have no idea what it is. I first heard about a year ago, over a controversy where he is invited to a clojure conference to talk about his tech, but got thrown out by sjw. Then, months later, at another conference lambda something, the sjw is doing it again, but the good people sees the injustice, and donated lots money to sponsor him or the conference.
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i recall, last year i spend half a day reading his stuff. Totally Incomprehended. But i went to Wikipedia instead, on article Dark Enlightenment. And there, you readily learn things and what he's about.
today i did the same. Turns out, he knew Peter Thiel and in fact spend the election night at Peter's house. That's nice to know.
About Dark Enlightenment (aka neoreaction), is quite interesting. You might go read Wikipedia yourself. Be warned, parts i see are sjw smear.
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