I feel like using Curtis Yarvin as an argument against tech solutions is like using Terry Davis as an argument against Christianity.
replyNo, I'm using Web3 as an argument against "tech solutions" and named Curtis Yarvin, a figurehead of technofeudalism, as a representative of technofeudalism.
replyPerhaps I should rephase then.
replyI think Curtis Yarvin(And indeed Davis) are not a representative example of any particular idea. Pathologies perhaps, but while the symptoms of such things have enough similarities to identify them, they do not manifest in a way that can characterise a typical expression of the phenomenon. To do so can be dangerous, and result in management of a set of symptoms rather than the cause.
Put into the context of Terry Davis. Terry was not racist because he was Christian, and neither is it true to say that people with schizophrenia will be racist. It was a complex and unique manifestation. I think Curtis Yarvin has a similar level of incomparability
I was commenting about "cyberlibertarianism" -- which is actively embraced and promoted by SV technocrats. Yarvin very much is a public figure in this area, but it's not about him specifically, it's the Web3 gang that wants to replace democracy with their shiny toys. Put it on the blockchain, problem solved!
replyJeffery Epstein was a very prominent financier, but if you pointed to him as an example of a financier I would suspect you are doing so due to properties that are not intrinsic to being a financier. I think you are doing this with Yarvin, unless you truly believe that cyber libertarianism can only ever be supported by far-right racists.
replyIt's a classic Hitler was a vegetarian argument.