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He's basically a very effective troll. It seems an actual technique in that community is to write turgidly about a bunch of provocative-but-plausibly-deniable p
by tunesmith 11y ago
He's basically a very effective troll. It seems an actual technique in that community is to write turgidly about a bunch of provocative-but-plausibly-deniable points, and then leave out the therefores except for doing a rhetorical wink/nudge. It's exhausting.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoHave you considered the possibility that maybe he actually believes the ideas he is promoting? I.e., rather than writing with the goal of trolling a bunch of people who only read his blog years later, maybe he was actually interested in the ideas he's writing about? Sometimes people write a lot about esoteric topics - my blog is a ton of statistics and code. Maybe Yarvin is just a nerd?
- tunesmith 11y agoI'm more referring to his effect than his intent. Call it accidental trolling.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoSo after effort which you describe as "exhausting" you can find racism in Moldbug's writing that you acknowledge he may not have intended. Yep, he's definitely a villain of the worst sort.
- tunesmith 11y agoThis strikes me as a willful misinterpretation of what I meant, so I'll stop engaging with this thread here.