I think identifying the neoreactionaries with LessWrong is mostly incorrect. I know NRxers who found each other on LW and made side blogs, but that’s because I know many more LWers than NRxers.
In the 2014 survey, only 2% of LWers called themselves neoreactionary, and I think that’s dropped as they’ve mostly moved off LW to other explicitly neoreactionary sites that they set up. LW had a ban on discussing politics that meant there weren’t any serious debates of NRx ideas. To the best of my knowledge, Moldbug didn’t post on LW. It probably is the case that debiasing pushed some people in the alt-right direction, but it’s still silly to claim it’s the normal result.
Really? There seems a little overlap to me, but plenty of mismatch as well. Like, MM says Bayesians are on crack, as one of the main points of the article.
Quoting myself from Facebook:
That’s compatible with a lot of neoreactionaries being lesswrongers.
I believe he posted on OB when EY was posting there.
Yes but it’s not like there was a lot of love lost between MM and EY (or RH).
The first link is MM saying what EY would later say in No Safe Defense, Not Even Science.
Really? There seems a little overlap to me, but plenty of mismatch as well. Like, MM says Bayesians are on crack, as one of the main points of the article.