Also, if Yvain ever writes the mega-rebuttal to Reaction that he has planned, I think it could really be a game changer. So there's hope that if you aren't up for the task, someone else will take care of it.
Except that he seems to have decided to write a few satellite snipes at non-core beliefs and leave it at that. He has explicitly said that he's not willing to engage with HBD, in a way that shocked me and broke my model of him as a reasonable rationalist. He has said nothing about the Cathedral, or "importing a new people" as a theoretical problem for democracy, instead focusing on proving that the present is broadly superior to the past.
In his defense, reactionaries have not exactly got their shit together with respect to a concise statement of what the core important beliefs actually are.
I asked him if he was ever going to write his mega-rebuttal, and he said "it's on my list of things to do, but that list also includes 'write a perfect philosophical language' and 'reach enlightenment'." So I think that's a pretty clear "maybe".
He has explicitly said that he's not willing to engage with HBD, in a way that shocked me and broke my model of him as a reasonable rationalist.
To be honest... if I had a blog, especially one linked to my real name and real-life identity, I would probably do the same thing that he seems to...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
Of course, for "every Monday", the last one should have been dated July 22-28. *cough*