100%! I was trying to work out how to post it here, but of course the answer is Just Post

Scott is incredibly lucky that Topher is actually as nice a person as Scott pretends to be

my post:

just reposting the 2014 leaked email about how Scott Alexander (Scott Siskind) had specifically intended Slate Star Codex to promote neoreaction and race science

not a single person denied the email, they were just outraged at the leaker for breaking confidence

Yudkowsky even declared that they should be shunned, lol

this email is surprisingly little spoken of, I keep finding SSC/ACX readers who’ve never heard of it. for once the rationalists had the good sense not to fuss about it

i keep pointing centrists at this email and they can’t reconcile the SSC article they liked with the writer of SSC explicitly saying he’s trying to make them more racist

if you’re wondering why techbros are all neoreactionaries these days, it’s because they received scott’s message fidelitously. SSC is a major vector of techfash radicalisation.

reasons to keep the fuckin receipts

text of scott email: https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lm36nk/old_scott_siskind_emails_which_link_him_to_the/gntraiv/
topher brennan tweets when posting the email: https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/643403673004851200/reddragdiva-topher-brennan-ive-decided-to-say

i looked into this and put it into the Neoreactionary Movement article on RationalWiki. Current version of the paragraph:

Moldbug’s early “The magic of symmetric sovereignty” (19 May 2007)[44] is short, comprehensible, and gets its point across in 1,666 words, rather than barely getting started in that much space. Its thesis is that totalitarian sovereignty would work well if it were unassailably secure. His arguments are made of handwaves and holes, but the interesting bit is the libertarian-style thinking, in which all the hard bits of politics and why humans are complicated are handwaved away because he wants so much for his reasoning to reach his desired conclusion. If something looks like an insufficiently-explained logical leap, don’t assume he’ll get around to properly explaining himself later. Much as per Yudkowsky’s style on Overcoming Bias and LessWrong, the apparent references lead to references leading to references, and hardly ever resolve to clear and well-supported substantiation.

…

After early-period commenters kept calling out his ridiculous misuse of basic terms and glaring factual errors, Moldbug adopted his better-known style, in which he spends a few thousand words redefining English to make his striking theses (e.g., “America is a communist country”[46]) less transparently ludicrous.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement

oh and anyone making that claim about urbit, fucking lol

i know writers who use subtext

yes, way too much of it is. Taleb is extremely smart, but nobody is as smart as Taleb thinks he is.

he just fell out of a very high up window

yes, and Scott’s logorrhea - but not as badly as the neoreactionaries, who imitate Moldbug’s logorrhea

The rationalist subculture is very bad at uncoerced consent.

oh god there’s another 400 comments here on the EA forum version. I particularly liked* the rationalists incorrecting each other from first principles on US defamation law.

$75k pa, but $63k is in room, board and fucking the boss