Treating each link as a reference, the perhaps more famous "Open Letter" has a bibliography about eight hundred items deep. That sounds impressive as hell till

Treating each link as a reference, the perhaps more famous "Open Letter" has a bibliography about eight hundred items deep. That sounds impressive as hell till you actually start looking at them. Filtering out Youtube, broken, and frothing-at-the-eyeballs, less than a hundred were interesting and a couple of dozen proved actually worth following, when I carried out this exercise for my own interest some time around 2013. As a collator, that gives Yarvin a considerably poorer score than Noah Smith, which I think would embarrass me were I either man. As anything else, I'm not sure whether Smith or Yarvin is actually more useless, but I may just need to move the decimal one place to the left in my epsilon.