Antivehicular posted:

Is there some story behind the name "Mencius Moldbug?" Why did this dude choose an Internet handle that sounds like something a second-rate Dickens imitator would reject for being too hamfistedly villainous?

Improbable Lobster posted:

quote:

I am working to improve myself for God’s glory.

Phobophilia posted:

holy poo poo you gotta elaborate on this

was he to be smuggled to the coding pits?

Political Whores posted:

Is the name Hoon a reference to something?

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Darth Walrus posted:

I mean, I get that it's possible that she hangs out with dedicated man-haters (and holy crap is this not the place to have an argument over whether misandry is an actual thing or not), but when you're a neo-fascist who was just pictured with a couple of MRA propagandists, it does rather point to you sharing in one particular form of sexism.

coyo7e posted:

DemeaninDemon posted:

Here's his picture from the article in case you don't like clicking things:

Jack Gladney posted:

bartlebyshop posted:

black people using Drexler-style nanotechnology to destroy the glorious white bourgeoisie

bartlebyshop posted:

Oh don't worry, some of them pretend that they really think that

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Jim is the dumbest, Moldbug is the biggest, and Anissimov is the slimiest.

MinistryofLard posted:

How is Lord of the Rings attainable?

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

EDIT: They basically want this http://oglaf.com/toll/

Stultus Maximus posted:

And I'm done with this nonsense.

BatteredFeltFedora posted:

For kicks, look up the time Jo Walton poured a coke on his head during a Tor Publishing party at some con or other. The widespread response among people who'd dealt with his bullshit was apparently a fairly universal "Jesus, I wish I'd done that!"

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Human meat isn't kosher, either.

Lamprey Cannon posted:

Personally, I think it's more that we live in a world where we're constantly aware of the achievements of people who are way, way smarter than us, who might be better at the things we do than we could ever hope to be. So, in order to feel good about themselves, conspiracy theorists construct this narrative where *everybody else* is stupid and deluded 'sheeple', and they're the only ones who really see what's going on, allowing them to believe that they're smarter/better without actually doing anything to prove that.

Crowsbeak posted:

Also what is it with them loving Tolkien? The guy might have been a person who looked kindly on the middle ages but he was no friend to the capitalism they jerk off to.

Dr Pepper posted:

"In Defense of Racist Imperialist Oppression" is pretty much all you need to read.

1stGear posted:

After the past two months of communiques with Jordan, I strongly suspect that he undermined this project because of an irrational jealously of Roosh, and any man who’s able to relate to women easily.

divabot posted:

He probably read this in September 2008 and still had it as a "cached thought". You really have to read it, it helped prime the LW-sphere to love NRx (and has a pile of NRx in the comments).

quote:

I was expecting to be the youngest person there, but it turned out that my age wasn't unusual—there were several accomplished individuals who were younger. This was the point at which I realized that my child prodigy license had officially completely expired.

Now, admittedly, this was a closed conference run by people clueful enough to think "Let's invite Eliezer Yudkowsky" even though I'm not a CEO. So this was an incredibly cherry-picked sample. Even so...

Even so, these people of the Power Elite were visibly much smarter than average mortals.

divabot posted:

Anissimov did demand a RationalWiki article of his own.

ol qwerty bastard posted:

It's weird how they imagine that "intelligence" can be essentially an unbounded process (which is the only way you can invoke "sufficiently advanced AI" to solve every conceivable problem). We know nothing about intelligence beyond our own, so why do they think that they can say anything meaningful about it?

Zemyla posted:

Honestly, the best argument that voting does matter, and one that might get through to these guys, is that companies are literally spending billions of dollars to influence it.

Woolie Wool posted:

I'm imagining Yudkowsky, a couple of years after a stroke that most people would bounce back, more or less, from, sitting in a power chair in a nursing home drooling on himself because he was so unwilling to put any effort towards rehabilitation that he just declined, and is still declining, further and further.

Woolie Wool posted:

Spock was actually kind of an idiot though. If you know that other species don't customarily go around with a stick up their rear end and repress their emotions like you do, acting towards them as if their emotions don't exist is both illogical and stupid.

Woolie Wool posted:

I once read a review on Metal Archives that used loving Iced Earth to launch a diatribe about how Kant was the worst person ever and how Kant ruined everything. Written by a Randroid of course.

Wales Grey posted:

How is that man's head making noise without lungs and a diaphragm to push air through its vocal cords?

Prism Mirror Lens posted:

Does this guy actually know

Cingulate posted:

They're called illiteracy.

Woolie Wool posted:

Jezebel stereotype

TetsuoTW posted:

"Jezebel" has meant "brazen hussy" in English since like the 16th century.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I like that they had to explicitly say it's not an M4M gay hookup group, I wonder why they put that in