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MichaelAnissimov
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1) Way too many to list here.
2) I still consider a near-future Singularity possible but not likely.
In reference to your first comment, basically yes.
1) The only reason I joined this thread in the first place is because someone attacked me, I don’t particularly advocate neoreaction among LW groups, because I understand the community is hyper-liberalized to the point of absurdity.
2) Yes, my estimates of when the Singularity will occur moved from 2030-2040 to 2070-2080 over the last five years. This change is partially what has caused the neoreaction thing. I think there is a real risk that Western civilization will fall apart before we get there.
I personally think that many of them are confused. Given that it’s a liberal society, I respect people’s decisions to do what they want. Yes, strong families are beneficial. Various alternative lifestyles get in the way of that. Eventually societies need to choose between maximizing personal freedom and having strong families. This is a tradeoff that most liberals have yet to really consider seriously.
That depends. Was he once a spokesman for the Singularity Institute?
I was media director and also came up for the idea for Singularity Summit, yes.
It promotes gender dysphoria by introducing it where it didn’t previously exist.
Citation on the testosterone business?
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Read this.
You, and Moldbug, and advancedatheist, and every other neoreactionary are putting forward specific views of how society should be structured, specific views which is not merely “something other than the present arrangements”. There may be a range of views in the nrsphere, but their doctrines are characterised by what they want, not by what they hate. They do a lot of the hating, to be sure, but they have a positive base of reasons for that.
Their doctrines are actually more characterized by what they dislike. As I said, NRx is a criticism first and foremost.
For example, monarchy and libertarian anarchy are incompatible with each other, and neither of them are Enlightenment structures (as “Enlightenment” is used by neoreactionaries). Are either or both of them compatible with or implied by neoreactionary principles? My reading of neoreactionaries suggests to me that monarchy is, and libertarian anarchy is not.
Some of the most prominent neoreactionaries are libertarian anarchists.
To clarify further, I’m not a universalist, so I don’t think everyone “should” condemn or approve of any particular individual or group. I said that for groups that care about strong families, they will need to denormalize alternative lifestyles. If groups don’t care about strong families, they can do whatever they like. The “strong families” bit is essential to the meaning of the paragraph.
It seems like the number of people doing it is strongly correlated to the increased popularity of Tumblr.
Islam is certainly not neoreactionary, because neoreactionary refers to the descendants of a certain circumscribed intellectual group that developed from Moldbug in the Bay Area.
Exactly.
No, I think that’s a disingenuous usage. I also don’t understand how pacifism is “objectively pro-fascist”.
In the book, he uses Jihad as a stand-in for traditional values everywhere, not just Islamic Jihad.
No one said ethnostates were terminally valuable, necessarily, but yeah. I wonder what the Tumblr contingent’s reaction to your last paragraph would be. You’re basically saying ethnos is so important that multicultural states fall apart, and that ethnostates are the best pragmatic form of government.
No, but I find the juxtaposition of Marxist universalist ideas being fervently communicated by those who enjoy the economic and social benefits of an ethnostate to be amusing.
The mentality is, “wait, why aren’t you openly admitting you’re evil?”
Furthermore, it will likely lead to many outcomes that people today would complain about and disapprove of.
Isn’t Israel an ethnonationalist state with a strong implicit hierarchy?
It’s crimethink in the sense that people automatically downvote anything critical of the Enlightenment.