The Silicon Aetiology
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do you think there should be a separate section for 'low human capital' findings? I've been starving lately, despite everything i've showed you.
I had the unfortunate displeasure of reading The Silicon Ideology last night. It's some essay that attempts to pin down the origins and threat of neoreaction, but the author consistently brings up irrelevant nonsense and constantly equates the alt-right, rationalists and actual, bonafide neo-reactionaries. Heck, even Elizabeth Sandifer could tell the difference. Again, if you want to understand the ideas of neoreaction without having to trudge through some Jewish faggot's verbose blog posts, please just read Scott Alexander.
Deducing Moldberg from a newfag perspective is a daunting task, and I don't wish it upon any open minded progressive. But I highly doubt the author of The Silicon Ideology even did that much.
Credit where it's due, the author does more homework than like 90% of other progressives who write the regular old screed about neoreaction... Pein Pein. But still, it's shit.
This r*ddit guy pretty much did all the dirty work for me, read it for the full fragshow on the essay. In fact, he refuted it so well someone in the comments started accusing him of being a Scott Alexander shill lmao.
One thing I will comment though, I think plebbit guy is kinda wrong on the origin of Moldberg's term "the Cathedral." From the original essay:
for here can be seen the origin of the neo-reactionary term "Cathedral" - it is in the title of Raymond's essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", though the meaning was somewhat different, referring in Raymond's essay to a centralized model of software development.
Preddit guy's response:
The source of the term "Cathedral" is actually made vaguely clear by Moldbug.. It's just a term used to describe the dominant dispenser of information. The original term for the Cathedral is likely Moldbug's Ultracalvinist hypothesis, so to follow that up a year later with a Church metaphor is unsurprising, and is almost certainly a Moldbug original.
The given name of the Cathedral is definitely a jab at the perceived Christian atheism followed by adherents of it. But Moldberg also makes a pretty explicit connection to Raymond's essay at the very end of the Open Letter:
The Cathedral is called the Cathedral for another reason: it’s not the Bazaar. Coding, frankly, is pretty easy. Reinterpreting reality is hard.
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psbtw I made this in blender a few days ago, thinking about getting into 3d art. Is dis based? I think it's supposed to be some kind of magic machine thingy.
https://files.catbox.moe/a5ze1z.png
a variation