Re:Why We're Sponsoring LambdaConf 2016
by tunesmith on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @07:16PM
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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 points, and then leave out the therefores except for doing a rhetorical wink/nudge. It's exhausting.
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Re:Why We're Sponsoring LambdaConf 2016
by yummyfajitas on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @07:21PM
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Have 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?
I'm more referring to his effect than his intent. Call it accidental trolling.
Re:Why We're Sponsoring LambdaConf 2016
by yummyfajitas on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @09:20AM
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So 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.