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What is your single greatest achievement?

Coming up with the idea for Singularity Summit and shaping the conference for several years.

Why is Americu better than Russia? Thought you hated America.

America is better than Russia in certain ways and far worse in other ways. The best of American thought is far superior to the best of Russian thought. Russian thought is 20 years behind the American cutting edge in many ways.

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Will Jews be allowed in the Neoreactionary state?

It depends on what neoreactionary state it is and what the people there think. The same holds for any ethnicities.

Are you a fan of Greg Johnson and Counter Currents?

Sort of. I thought the My Nationalist Pony interview was weird but generally I enjoy Counter Currents. I think they are insecure about the rise of neoreaction.

I wonder if you have a definition of Transhumanism that may be different than what I've heard before (which, I grant, may have been inaccurate). In brief then, from your own personal point of view: What is Transhumanism?

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the Wikipedia definition

Are you a white nationalist?

Pretty much. I have many non-white friends but in the long-term I think monoethnic cultures are more effective.

I'm confused. Did we get 'broken windows theory' and 'broken window fallacy' mixed up?

Yeah. I haven't heard of broken window fallacy, sorry.

What do you think about Peter Thiel?

He seems alright. His quote on democracy and freedom being incompatible is very important.

Is moldbug's caste system, or nydwracu's 8-caste extention, accurate and useful to you?

Yes, they're both very useful.

Do you enjoy being Americun or would you prefer to be fully Russian?

I am fully Russian ethnically. I prefer America as a country.

Your thoughts on suicide?

It's for the weak? I'm disappointed that suicides are continuing to rise although the recession is allegedly over.

If a NRx article blew up and rustled national jimmies, who if any of you would be the best face for e.g. a live CNN interview?

Hm, tough question. I don't think there really is anyone right now.

Assuming unlimited social influence, who are the 5-10 people/organizations that you would work on introducing NRx to?

Disillusioned Cato libertarians, Buchananites, Catholics, Steve Sailer, leftist rationalists, State Department types, Heritage Foundation, Mormons, and Silicon Valley libertarians.

why do some interracial marriages "trigger you"?

I dunno man. I'm not going to subject myself to a boring cross-examination.

I was very open to neoreactionary ideas after reading Nassim Taleb books, especially "Antifragile". Did you read Taleb's work?

nope.

What do you think about Elon Musk?

He's cool but I don't agree that space colonization is the most important thing to be doing right now. In fact I think it's rather useless.

Do neo-reactionaries have a bad boy appeal? I get the idea from Rachel Haywire that this whole ideology had a sexual appeal to her. Your take?

Sure, any serious right wing philosophy will have that appeal. Neoreactionaries say what we feel and don't worry about political correctness or horizontal political pressure. We are honest where others have to lie.

Why did you stop working for MIRI?

They shifted from outreach to research and didn't need a media director anymore. The money that was used to pay my salary went to fund math research.

Do you know any secondary languages? If so how fluent are you in them?

I understand some Russian, not that well though.

Do you think there's a connection between atheism and autism?

most autistic ppl are atheists but a negligible percentage of atheists are autistic.

That guy is right. Not every libertarian is a Rothbardian. However, every libertarian has serious emotional defects.

Can we move on from talking about libertarians now?

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