i’m genuinely curious about how other less wrong readers feel about UR.
Huge fan here. Not sure that Moldbug is necessarily the most reliable thinker of good thoughts, but his good thoughts have almost no overlap with other people’s good thoughts, which makes them especially informative.
Yes, exactly. If more people were writing on Moldbug’s topics (structural improvements to government, differences between past and present that we completely miss because we are surrounded only by present, shittiness of many modern institutions, especially politics and academia) I doubt I would read him. He tends to exaggerate his theses and make overly sweeping claims (the comments often have good rebuttals), and I try to avoid people who say false things, especially interesting false things. His numerous mistaken comments on prediction markets are a good example.
But in the current intellectual climate, I think he adds a lot of valuable signal. I’m not the most objective b/c his areas of interest strongly overlap with mine, but for me he’s a must-read.
I am in tentative agreement with Moldbug’s main points. But like patrissimo says, some of his claims are overly sweeping. Unlike patrissimo, I have no significant personal stake in Moldbug’s being right aside from the stake we all have in the health of the state and the society in which we live.
Huge fan here. Not sure that Moldbug is necessarily the most reliable thinker of good thoughts, but his good thoughts have almost no overlap with other people’s good thoughts, which makes them especially informative.
Yes, exactly. If more people were writing on Moldbug’s topics (structural improvements to government, differences between past and present that we completely miss because we are surrounded only by present, shittiness of many modern institutions, especially politics and academia) I doubt I would read him. He tends to exaggerate his theses and make overly sweeping claims (the comments often have good rebuttals), and I try to avoid people who say false things, especially interesting false things. His numerous mistaken comments on prediction markets are a good example.
But in the current intellectual climate, I think he adds a lot of valuable signal. I’m not the most objective b/c his areas of interest strongly overlap with mine, but for me he’s a must-read.
I am in tentative agreement with Moldbug’s main points. But like patrissimo says, some of his claims are overly sweeping. Unlike patrissimo, I have no significant personal stake in Moldbug’s being right aside from the stake we all have in the health of the state and the society in which we live.