I didn’t down vote you, but I generally disagree with your pattern match. Moldbug signals self-righteous revulsion ironically since he is mirroring the self-righteous revulsion of the SWPLs to anything that challenges their ideological outlook.
Moldbug has been praised by many people I know from LessWrong as having a good style of writing. For example here:
The best way to improve the natural flow of ideas, and your writing in general, is to read really good writers so much that you unconsciously pick up their turns of phrase and don’t even realize when you’re using them. The best time to do that is when you’re eight years old; the second best time is now.
Your role models here should be those vampires who hunt down the talented, suck out their souls, and absorb their powers. Which writers’ souls you feast upon depends on your own natural style and your goals. I’ve gained most from reading Eliezer, Mencius Moldbug, Aleister Crowley, and G.K. Chesterton (links go to writing samples from each I consider particularly good); I’m currently making my way through Chesterton’s collected works pretty much with the sole aim of imprinting his writing style into my brain.
Yes apparently some like it as much as they like Eliezer’s writing.
Maybe that’s what got you down voted? He’s a bit too verbose for my taste, but as he said it himself several times that inhumanely long posts are one of the ways he keeps out the wrong kind of crowd which is attracted by a far right view for all the wrong reasons.
And why doesn’t he hire a few moderators from among his allies, then open the doors to the right type of crowd—that is, someone like the SIAI staff—and let them see the light? He is, after all, saying that it’d be nice for his goals to hit more people where it counts with some quality propaganda. I bet that he’s simply addicted to his ultra-contrarian throne beyond all reason.
He’s just a random guy writing a blog. He can’t even post that often since he’s raising a baby girl. How many such people choose minions to moderate their blogs?
Why would he want the SIAI type around? The average SIAI employee might spend some time thinking about his arguments, but I suspect they have differing values.
I bet that he’s simply addicted to his ultra-contrarian throne beyond all reason.
I didn’t down vote you, but I generally disagree with your pattern match. Moldbug signals self-righteous revulsion ironically since he is mirroring the self-righteous revulsion of the SWPLs to anything that challenges their ideological outlook.
Moldbug has been praised by many people I know from LessWrong as having a good style of writing. For example here:
Yes apparently some like it as much as they like Eliezer’s writing.
Maybe that’s what got you down voted? He’s a bit too verbose for my taste, but as he said it himself several times that inhumanely long posts are one of the ways he keeps out the wrong kind of crowd which is attracted by a far right view for all the wrong reasons.
And why doesn’t he hire a few moderators from among his allies, then open the doors to the right type of crowd—that is, someone like the SIAI staff—and let them see the light? He is, after all, saying that it’d be nice for his goals to hit more people where it counts with some quality propaganda. I bet that he’s simply addicted to his ultra-contrarian throne beyond all reason.
He’s just a random guy writing a blog. He can’t even post that often since he’s raising a baby girl. How many such people choose minions to moderate their blogs?
Why would he want the SIAI type around? The average SIAI employee might spend some time thinking about his arguments, but I suspect they have differing values.
I actually agree.