"... Buterin did present a third option. 'How many people here agree with the neoreactionary opinion that the solution to the problems of the United States is to go back to being ruled by King George III?'" https://breakermag.com/vitalik-buterin-is-embracing-a-new-role-political-theorist/ … * facepalm * ...
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To be fair moldbug does deliberately elide the difference between neo and paleoreactionary for comedic effect, he probably hasn’t reread him enough
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True. But there has to be someone in Buterin's circle who could have whispered to him: "The NeoCam CEO is an executive appointment made by sovereign stock-holders."
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...is he a bright kid? Or is the point to make fun of the outgroup. Haha! They're so bad at being the ingroup! More inaccurate more better.
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I've talked to hundreds of neoreactionaries and monarchists, and none of them have specifically backed George III. This is like saying support for democracy is support for digging up Nixon and putting him back in office.
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Yes, because it’s a very unpleasant notion to most. People can know history, and they can easily imagine a Brave New World where living costs them nothing, but a future of ruthless efficiency kept sane by MAD Doctrine just sounds like too much hard work to take seriously.
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Competition and entropy are intractable. It’s hard for a brain that’s so adept at finding elegant solutions to computational problems to even entertain the idea that there isn’t an easy way out.
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since when do neoreactionaries "grok" anything of the sort? you can't blame an outsider for getting it wrong when the people in it the deepest get it wrong
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He's a vanilla Whig sadly
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Buterin is a bright kid who got coopted immediately.
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