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by devalier 11y ago
OK, apologies for the misquote. Let me apply a patch to replace "yet he called Saletan an idiot for holding this third position" with "yet he called an article idiotic that provided supporting evidence for this position.&quot
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by devalier 11y ago
To what ends would you change his mind on this issue? For Internet points, or for a greater good? The "gap" between the races on matters such as income, education achievement, or the demographics of Google engineers is a source
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by devalier 11y ago
This makes the minorities Yarvin rails against feel unwelcome. According to Urban Dictionary, "to rail" means in this context means: "To irrationally attack someone verbally, with intent to destroy their reputation, belief,
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by devalier 11y ago
If a conference wants to exclude people for expressing political views, written under a pseudonym, in a deliberately obscurant way, that was playing a role of devils advocate and provocateur (which may or may not reflect actual views), then
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by devalier 11y ago
Oh, I think you're right, I parsed his comment incorrectly.
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by devalier 11y ago
There is no possibility that you will convince me Is there any possible evidence, any possible information, that could convince you that genes for IQ were not equally distributed among the races? For my sake, there would be plenty of poss
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by devalier 11y ago
" There's also the historical context of this post, which is William Saletan's idiotic Slate posts about rational IQ variation. " When I first read that Saletan post I found it pretty convincing. And when I did much more
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by devalier 11y ago
I am familiar with the Nehemiah Adams reference. Keep in mind that Moldbug's blog is trying to provide a corrective to our default view, and so Adam's account is his favorite, shock therapy, corrective book in a world where we are
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by devalier 11y ago
Carlyle's position on slavery is not compatible with your summary. Agreed. and, I'll trepidatiously infer, Yarvin's (after correcting for modernity) Since Yarvin is on this thread, he can clarify his actual views if he so
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by devalier 11y ago
Who on the right today has been similarly "silenced"? Here is a very long list: https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/bullied-and-bad... Congratulations on getting the last and final scalp.
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by devalier 11y ago
Moldbug did in other places explicitly denounce hereditary, chattel slavery and called it evil. His actual view seems to be that it should be legal for a person to sign a permanent, life-long employment contract, mediated and regulated for
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by devalier 11y ago
It wasn't the code itself that I learned from. I have more been enriched and stimulated by reading the blog posts, documentation, hacker news threads, and mailing list. A couple of the more interesting ideas are: * He created Nock, whi
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by devalier 11y ago
Urbit's author, meanwhile, has had nothing but invective for people doing valuable research in the relevant sub-fields of comp-sci that his work touches upon. Purely from a technology perspective, this in an individual who operates in
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by devalier 11y ago
Science is not a democracy, and consensus means little when the peer review and tenure review process is designed to reward conformity rather than truth. Use your own brain. Denying the existence of races is completely absurd. See for insta
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by devalier 11y ago
If we can not make moral decisions as a society, to say "the opinion that minority races are inferior is not one we are willing to tolerate," we stand no chance to have any meaningful cultural progression. Can you suspend disbel
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by devalier 11y ago
You are right of course. From a business standpoint, Alex did the right thing and he will not suffer consequences. Other conferences have done the same and will continue to do so. This is part of a lamentable, ongoing trend. Individual acti
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by devalier 11y ago
I think posts with a high ratio of comments to up-votes automatically get buried. So I'm not sure that this was deliberately moderated, or it was just the automated flame-war detection being set off.
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by devalier 11y ago
It would be fine to ban Curtis if his talk was about his politics. It would be fine to ban him if he did not agree to abide by the code of conduct. The conference obviously does not owe him a platform to discuss his politics. But his talk w
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by devalier 11y ago
Teachings about "game" can be very effective at taking someone who is underachieving with the ladies based on their natural status level, and turning them into a slight overachiever. Much of "game" is simply counter-prog
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by devalier 11y ago
Yeah a lot of people who like his writings have criticized that term. I don't really like it myself, but it kind of stuck. The word does refer to a real phenomena that currently doesn't have a mainstream name. So Moldbug gets cred
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by devalier 11y ago
Capitalism is great and all. But capitalism's natural base, propertied high-caste men, make up only up only 30% of the electorate in the U.S. (and that percentage is falling). So how can democracy protect capitalism? Power is real, and
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by devalier 11y ago
I would say that about 20% of the time he nails it square on, and another 70% of the time he goes overboard but he is still closer to the truth the current mainstream view. I think he appeals more to people who 1) are significantly disaffec
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by devalier 11y ago
I would recommend to others to sample the Moldbuggery list, and not to start with Scott Alexander's writings. The point of Moldbug's writings is not to be 100% accurate. The point is to expose you to new ideas and old forgotten bo
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by devalier 11y ago
There are definitions of fascism by which Moldbug is advocating fascism. There are definitions of fascism by which FDR or Woodrow Wilson were fascists. The definition of fascist by which Moldbug is a fascist is not the same definition that
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by devalier 11y ago
FYI, I can no longer reply to this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9517903 ), but you can email me at my address in my profile if you are still interested in a reading list.
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by devalier 11y ago
The writings of Mencius Moldbug: http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/ Mind-bending writings on politics, history and economics.
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by devalier 11y ago
Do you have one or two of the topics you are most interested in? It would take up too much time to dig up a worthwhile list for them all :-P
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by devalier 11y ago
Most of my knowledge exploration comes from real world encounters. I moved to an older, partially-decaying, partially-gentrifying U.S. city and wanted to learn all about its history. What happened to all these crumbling old buildings? Why a