> I'm surprised to see this ranking so high on HN. Sex-based difference is the biggest taboo of our time.
Indeed, it's such a taboo that it's brought up here every time the subject is discussed here.
Unless you would take all your information from radicalfeminist.com, I never saw a reputable news channel denying there would be differences between sexes. Actually, I see this meme of "Gender differences are taboo!" MUCH more often than I see the actual behavior so decried in actual action.
I don't understand the use case for LastPass/Dropbox/FTP storage of password, 1Password (and probably others) allow to sync through wifi, isn't that enough? Why would you need to do it over the cloud?
To play devil's advocate, a conference is not only about the speeches, but also about the people you can meet there.
Inviting Moldbug bring not only his own person but also his followers. It's understandable if your goal is to foster a diverse crowd to not invite a group of people who constantly argue against any kind of modern society.
> Inviting Moldbug bring not only his own person but also his followers. It's understandable if your goal is to foster a diverse crowd to not invite a group of people who constantly argue against any kind of modern society.
Imagine if your sentence was reformulated like this instead.
> Inviting Harvey Milk bring not only his own person but also his followers. It's understandable if your goal is to foster a diverse crowd to not invite a group of people who [insert claim here] against any kind of modern society.
See the problem? :(
Tolerance is hard, I know, but something we need to foster nonetheless.
Even if we don't allow these people to conferences, we still share roads, grocery stores, national identity, tax revenues, employment opportunities, classrooms, etc, with them. Humanity sucks badly enough at cooperation already! Let's not ever actively discourage it!
This is diving into the Paradox of Tolerance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance). This posits, should we tolerate the intolerant? Comparing Harvey Milk, who fought for increased tolerance of a group, vs Moldbug, who argues against increased tolerance of another minority group, doesn't exactly follow.
I'm uncertain if I'm willing to consider the position with Moldbug intolerance, because of the paradox listed. This is not someone with a pro-gun or anti-tax or some other form of political speech that are culturally arguable without being an intolerant viewpoint against a group of people.
Still, that's just pointing out the difference. I feel like a bit of a fence sitter to be honest. That being said, I have left jobs because of a boss that had, what I considered, intolerant viewpoints of LGBT and non-white people.
To be fair, neoreactionaries are mostly notable for their startling lack of real-world achievements. Yarvin is exceptional in this regard. (Tunney has disclaimed "neoreaction" of late.) They tend to have extensive blogging credentials, however. (And are a dab hand with an occasional cheese dip.)
edit: if there are others with notable real-world achievements, I will eagerly accept correction.
> To be fair, neoreactionaries are mostly notable for their startling lack of real-world achievements.
That's not fair at all. You make a value judgment by referring to (but not defining) 'real-world achievements' and follow it up with an ad hominem, instead of deconstructing the actual ideas involved.
It also makes perfect sense that following any political view radically different from the mainstream will lead to less 'real-world' success, as not only does compromising your politics for success potentially alienate you from your allies, but mainstream society will be actively and deliberately trying to prevent you from achieving that success (and apparently speaking at technical conferences).
For example, I would not have been successful in the Roman Empire, Communist Russia, or Nazi Germany unless I was willing to compromise my politics. I'm not exactly successful now because my politics don't precisely line up with the 'mainstream'. But that still says nothing about how ethical or tenable my political stance is.
Well, if the mysterious sdfghjkl34567 is to be believed, then you don't get to decide what neoreactionary means, and so don't get to decide if you are one or not as far as others are concerned.
On the other hand you did start a petition to turn over government rule to Google, and believe the bottom 1/3 of the population should be live in servants to the top 1/3. What this has to do with neoreactionarism I have no idea, but apparently many people think it's associated.
P.S. I'm still not convinced that you're not a troll, but then again I'm not sure if this is not exactly the kind of $#@% that needs to be stirred up.
Peter Thiel? I don't think he's ever come out and explicitly said "I am a neoreactionary", but he did say "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible," and the co-founder of Tlön (company that is making Urbit) is a Thiel fellow.
A lot of people who blog on these ideas maintain pseudonyms to prevent Strangeloop-like witch hunts ruining their professional lives.
Neoreactionary ideas have been picked up and directly cited by cultural influencers like Ross Douthat, Ed West, and William Gibson, however. They see themselves as a right wing Frankfurt School - not noteworthy for their identities, but for their subtle cultural impact.
No, the school of social philosophy associated with Carl Grünberg, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse.
Check out Eclipse of Reason,Escape from Freedom,The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, and The Theory of Communicative Action when you get a chance. Primary sources and all.
That's a good way of putting something I was thinking. And you clearly said "devils advocate"...it may be an unpopular point but its probably close to what the organizers were actually thinking.
There is an apkjs IRC channel on mozilla [1] so they might cross-compile Android apps via emscripten to asm.js. Couldn't get any info from moz when I asked around in that channel.
Indeed, it's such a taboo that it's brought up here every time the subject is discussed here.
Unless you would take all your information from radicalfeminist.com, I never saw a reputable news channel denying there would be differences between sexes. Actually, I see this meme of "Gender differences are taboo!" MUCH more often than I see the actual behavior so decried in actual action.