(I wonder why you say “Moldbug” rather than “Yarvin” but “Siskind” rather than “Alexander” or “Scott”.)
If your reading of anything Scott’s written is that he favours anything like neoreaction, then it’s a very different reading from mine. My reading is that he thinks neoreaction is mostly garbage but with occasional valuable insights. His actual words in what I suspect is the same leaked email as you’re talking about: “Neoreactionaries provide a vast stream of garbage with occasional nuggets of absolute gold in them.” My mental model of Scott is not excited by the prospect of Dominic-Cummings-alikes finding a way to get a populist president installed who will bulldozer all the bureaucratic obstacles between himself and absolute power.
I’m not familiar enough with the details of Yarvin’s ideas to know how closely aligned Cummings’s proposal is to Yarvin’s “formalism”. (It doesn’t looks super-close to me, though.)
For the avoidance of doubt, I do agree that Cummings is generally Up To No Good (though I don’t hate him as intensely as the UK media fairly clearly wants me to), I wouldn’t trust him any further than I could throw him, and I don’t think his proposals here are likely to end well if anyone tries to put them into action.
(I wonder why you say “Moldbug” rather than “Yarvin” but “Siskind” rather than “Alexander” or “Scott”.)
If your reading of anything Scott’s written is that he favours anything like neoreaction, then it’s a very different reading from mine. My reading is that he thinks neoreaction is mostly garbage but with occasional valuable insights. His actual words in what I suspect is the same leaked email as you’re talking about: “Neoreactionaries provide a vast stream of garbage with occasional nuggets of absolute gold in them.” My mental model of Scott is not excited by the prospect of Dominic-Cummings-alikes finding a way to get a populist president installed who will bulldozer all the bureaucratic obstacles between himself and absolute power.
I’m not familiar enough with the details of Yarvin’s ideas to know how closely aligned Cummings’s proposal is to Yarvin’s “formalism”. (It doesn’t looks super-close to me, though.)
For the avoidance of doubt, I do agree that Cummings is generally Up To No Good (though I don’t hate him as intensely as the UK media fairly clearly wants me to), I wouldn’t trust him any further than I could throw him, and I don’t think his proposals here are likely to end well if anyone tries to put them into action.