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Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right
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Ok, I originally gave this book 2 stars because it had SUCH intense “philosophy grad student’s tumblr blog” vibes. A multi page excerpt from the script to the Hannibal TV series shows up at some point! But in the 6 years since I’ve thought about the arguments constantly. I bring up the idea that AI doomerism is a philosophical horror trap, easy to argue into but hard to argue out, like antinatalism and the extinction movement. I draw on the book to explain why the rationalism and EA communities have been such fertile ground for far right recruitment.
In the current world, it’s worth reading even with the Hannibal script parts. The ideas stand strong.
In the current world, it’s worth reading even with the Hannibal script parts. The ideas stand strong.
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September 12, 2018
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September 12, 2018
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September 15, 2018
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Finished Reading
May 17, 2019
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Honestly there was stuff that I enjoyed—especially stuff about the genre of philosophical horror, and nick land, that has informed a lot of how I think about nrx and other things. Roko’s basilisk, nihilism, nrx, and other ideological taboos have this shared genre of “you can’t unthink it” kind of philosophical horror, which I understood better after reading what they have to say on this genre.It also has these multi page excerpts from the Hannibal TV show that are played completely straight? Some of the book was really good background, some of it felt like someone expanded a fandom tumblr post into a philosophy dissertation.
