Oh the rabbit hole! Let me give you some amazing quotes.

First, that ycombinator commenter who is at least as woke as us (no joke)

I remember being in the same circles circa 2012. I found LessWrong to be a bunch of not very interesting wank and pseudoprofound bullshit. I couldn’t decide if neoreaction was serious or some kind of many layered satire (later learned it was 100% serious). I know too much about actual evolutionary theory to buy into the IQ cult much. When Gamergate hit my reaction was “this is the stupidest thing I have ever seen… why would anyone actually care about this?”

Their interlocutor:

yeah - I think it’s fully explained by a virulent plague of memetic brain worms, and doesn’t need a conspiracy. I recommend Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer to get a handle on it (and not just because my name’s in the first sentence).

That referenced book I will defo gonna buy now:

Featuring essays on: * Tentacled computer gods at the end of the universe * Deranged internet trolls who believe women playing video games will end western civilization * The black mass in which the President of the United States sacrificed his name * Fringe economists who believe it’s immoral for the government to prevent an asteroid from hitting the Earth * The cabal of lizard people who run the world * How to become a monster that haunts the future * Why infusing the blood of teenagers for eternal youth is bad and stupid

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There are soem great negative reviews for that book:

I’ll admit I’ve only read the first essay, but the quality of this work makes it undesirable to continue beyond that point.

Ok, but go on then:

Was expecting better, but the obnoxious snark and blatant condescension for the people written about in the first essay alone makes this practically unreadable. The author simply takes for granted that you already consider Yarvin, Land and Yudkowski as worthy of contempt and scorn and proceeds to uncharitably strawman half of what they say. Their discussion of Yarvin’s writings on race are particularly childish

Welllllll that reviewer is wrong.

Another gem:

I can look past the marxism dripping from every word, since it has some valid critiqued of various social structures. However, this is by far the least fair representation of every group mentioned. I’ve independently studied these groups and a large amount of this book is simply half truths and purposeful lies.

Lol Marxism

Nick Johnson from the Ethereum Foundation tweets what he thought the guy was doing - Virgil Grififth seriously, literally, thought that he could personally, singlehandedly, through the power of his own intellect, bring peace between North and South Korea … if only those dum-dums in the US Government would let him apply ENOUGH BLOCKCHAIN. https://twitter.com/nicksdjohnson/status/1201212127945605122

it’s the endless creativity of the blithering stupidity that keeps me following that nonsense

I wish people would stop acting like the alt-right is some kind of mind virus that corrupts perfectly nice and innocent people. It’s really not that big a surprise that a smart kid persecuted in school would grow into an adult who continues to look for racist justifications for why his intellect, the one thing he could take pride in growing up, makes him a superior being. The world would be a better place if we collectively recognized that a susceptibility to fascist tendencies is much more widespread than we think.

He encouraged other U.S. citizens to travel to North Korea, intended to renounce his U.S. citizenship and began researching how to purchase citizenship from other countries, the complaint says.

I give everybody one shot each to work out what his endgame was and how it involved cheap Asian pussy

How to evade sanctions on a ledger whose main defining trait is being 100% public, tonight at 10 on your WDUM local news.

Sanctions on North Korea are unjustifiable and I’m glad people are evading them.

Nothing surprising here. Sanctions on North Korea are unjustifiable, so it’s evident that people will try to evade them.