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The style of this post reminds me a lot of Matt Levine's money stuff.

• ivraatiems 1y ago
  Agreed, or patio11's financial writing. The style is a big part of why people like Alexander so much.
• maxerickson 1y ago
  Matt Levine is coherent though. I would think someone intent on calling Moldbug's ideas interesting would at least try to patch up the big holes. Like the city-states that have free flowing capital and populations, but somehow avoid an analogue to international law. Or the dictator that isn't subject to approval, except by the required committee that can fire him. There's 4 points and 2 of them are contradictory!
  • the_af 1y ago
    > Like the city-states that have free flowing capital and populations, but somehow avoid an analogue to international law. This is what kills me about attempts like this (e.g. like Scott Alexander's) to make Yarvin's ideas seem "interesting" or "thought-provoking". Well-read as Yarvin might be, only someone who is mentally a teenager can have his kind of beliefs. "Society would be great if it weren't for all these monstruous things I don't like, artificially imposed on us by... aliens?" It reminds me of teenagers who go online and make arguments like "well, ackshually, the US is not a democracy but a republic...". Yeah, yeah, you're very smart for pointing this out, now go sit in a corner and let the grownups talk.