I second the Sandifer book, it’s pretty much your ideal resource (partially second hand impressions, still haven’t read it all). Be wary about taking the FAQ at face.

The neoreaction cannon has everything you’d want. I think the most telling essay in it is Michael Anissimov’s attempt to reconcile transhumanism and neoreaction by saying that the only way we can survive as a species is by giving the elites all the power is telling of the fear of the underclasses getting their hands on technology and building something better. See also this post critiquing his assumption that we’ll all be genetically engineered to be perfect physical specimens instead of diverging in makeup and desires (this was written before he was out as NRx) is another tell about the fact that despite being superficially pro tech they desire that everything remain the same.

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The anarcho-transhumanist FAQ sums it up pretty well:

Transhumanism is a quite simple position and so there’s a wide array people who’ve been attracted to it. Inevitably some of them are obnoxious, shortsighted, naive, or reactionary.

Thankfully a good chunk of the reactionary contingent abandoned transhumanism when they finally realized how inextricable the liberatory components were. “The death of the gender binary? That’s not what I signed up for!” Many of these idiots have gone onto form a fascism-for-nerds cult/fandom called “neoreaction” as part of the alt-right. In a particularly revealing reversal many now hope for and advocate the collapse of civilization. They expect this will lead to a post apocalyptic landscape where their absurd notions of biological essentialism reign supreme—where “Real Alpha Men” rule as warlords and the rest of us are used for raping, slaving, or hunting. Or where we are forced back to tribal-scale relations, better enabling (small scale) nationalistic identity, interpersonal hierarchies and traditionalism. Others envision small corporate fiefdoms and some kind of AI god that will help them maintain their desired hierarchies by stopping oppressed groups from gaining, understanding, or developing technology.

I think a pro-tech left wing perspective on neoreaction would be pretty interesting and it would be something we haven’t actually seen in a long form piece of writing

the book Neoreaction: a basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer seems pretty relevant here, it covers neo-reactionaries Nick land and Mencius moldbug, as well as showing how Yudkowsky relates to them.

Corey Pein writes about this, especially these two:

https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein

There’s also a bunch of stuff on Land and his involvement with CCRU, accelerationism, etc. but I don’t know how much of that would be relevant to Confederacy of Dunces.

I’d recommend first reading the rules of this subreddit. There are only three.

Am I the only one who gets angry over the Moldbug calling himself “Mencius”?