Plenty of quibbles, but by the standard of these things it's at least comparatively calm.
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Replying to @Outsideness @mcsam_1
Re: quibbles, well yes. It purports to describe the world, in fact merely describes their own tastes. Still, it rises to the standard of not lying about those tastes. And yes, commendably lacking in hysterics.
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The framing crime-by-association smear of Anna's book is both lazy and disgraceful, though. He doesn't even quote it, merely insinuating contamination, before spiraling down into the contaminant.
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... In his defense, it has to hurt to be a member of history's most incompetent priest caste (as both he and Nagle understand they are).
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Replying to @Outsideness @mcsam_1
Is there a progressive who does not intellectually disgrace themselves with regularity? They have to be graded on a curve.
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By the way, how -did- you find Moldbug? Someone email it to you? Random trawling of the internet? I found it from a Reddit post referring to 2Blowhards, back when smart people still used Reddit.
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Maybe from his arguments with Auster? Not really able to recall.
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Replying to @Outsideness @mcsam_1
Honestly that guess is good enough. I'm more interested at the [sort-of-thing] level, I'm not trying to write an object-level biography.
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"As ideological battles have moved online and away from the traditional institutions of the Cathedral" Oops, he's been infected. It's not good when Cathedral members openly defend it as the Cathedral per se...
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Re: Auster. So for example, if someone wanted to raise the odds of going viral, they should try their darndest to troll someone their target audience is reading.
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As opposed to optimizing for (as example) reaching across word-of-mouth networks.
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