decent explanatory power for the modern world
Please elaborate on how, completely disregarding political realism in favor of an overarching conspiracy theory (as already mentioned above) and just ignoring the whole iceberg of neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, etc, one can arrive at a decent explanation for it all. "The leftist social sciences professor down the street is a witch, she did it" is not up to my standards of "decent".
"The leftist social sciences professor down the street is a witch, she did it"
That is not Moldbug's model. How much have you read?
He has decent models in my mind for many things including the genesis of the leftwards social movement for the past few decades or centuries, the genesis of modern morality, US foreign policy, the sociological aspect development of ideology ect.
I don't think I'm that much of a outlier in my estimation here, I've heard many people I know from LessWrong express interest in his thought (for example gwern, or Vladimir...
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