Thank you for reacting with curiosity and an inquiring spirit.
I think the schism happened around ’16, and got a bit mixed up with basilisk drama considering roko and Anissimov’s stepping down from MIRI comms.
The main thing is, NRx points and the LW/MIRI plan grew increasingly incompatible at a tactical level, and many LWers of NRx extraction were banned within a relatively short time so that others decided to move elsewhere (MoreRight, Nick Land and Spandrell and Moldbug’s blogs etc).
I was more involved with the xenosystems side of things, but I kinda felt the decouply attitude I liked was disappearing so I stopped my (meager, ESL and at the time quite self-conscious about my fluency, so I mostly lurked) participation.
An artefact from the era:
>This isn’t going to work, but for the record, and on the vague off-chance that anyone who doesn’t already know possesses the mental capacity to update, I’ll state that I am actively hostile to neoreaction and neoreactionaries. Anyone posting a neoreactionary concept on my Facebook wall would be instablocked and the comment deleted. It’d be like their posting creationism on my wall; somebody needs to reeducate them, but it’s not going to be me. I think that if you do argue with neoreactionaries instead of just blocking them, then you’ve been suckered into Somebody Is Wrong On The Internet syndrome and trollfeeding. > I’m writing this, not in any real hope of any of my Tumblr kismesis-stalkers listening, but because I do think there is a reasonable duty to occasionally repeat “Nope” for the historical record when somebody has gone around suggesting that you are endorsing the Cult of Hastur or whatever. > So if in the future you hear anyone on Tumblr mention “Eliezer Yudkowsky” and “neoreaction” in the same sentence and the connector isn’t something like “deletes”, then remember always that that poster is intellectually dishonest and probably lying to you about other things as well
You’ve said this a few times, I honestly am not sure what you’re referring to. Was this something before my team took over, that is, prior to 2017?
Thank you for reacting with curiosity and an inquiring spirit.
I think the schism happened around ’16, and got a bit mixed up with basilisk drama considering roko and Anissimov’s stepping down from MIRI comms.
The main thing is, NRx points and the LW/MIRI plan grew increasingly incompatible at a tactical level, and many LWers of NRx extraction were banned within a relatively short time so that others decided to move elsewhere (MoreRight, Nick Land and Spandrell and Moldbug’s blogs etc).
I was more involved with the xenosystems side of things, but I kinda felt the decouply attitude I liked was disappearing so I stopped my (meager, ESL and at the time quite self-conscious about my fluency, so I mostly lurked) participation.
An artefact from the era:
>This isn’t going to work, but for the record, and on the vague off-chance that anyone who doesn’t already know possesses the mental capacity to update, I’ll state that I am actively hostile to neoreaction and neoreactionaries. Anyone posting a neoreactionary concept on my Facebook wall would be instablocked and the comment deleted. It’d be like their posting creationism on my wall; somebody needs to reeducate them, but it’s not going to be me. I think that if you do argue with neoreactionaries instead of just blocking them, then you’ve been suckered into Somebody Is Wrong On The Internet syndrome and trollfeeding.
> I’m writing this, not in any real hope of any of my Tumblr kismesis-stalkers listening, but because I do think there is a reasonable duty to occasionally repeat “Nope” for the historical record when somebody has gone around suggesting that you are endorsing the Cult of Hastur or whatever.
> So if in the future you hear anyone on Tumblr mention “Eliezer Yudkowsky” and “neoreaction” in the same sentence and the connector isn’t something like “deletes”, then remember always that that poster is intellectually dishonest and probably lying to you about other things as well