Talk:Curtis Yarvin

Design
The following I leave below for those who want to pick up this project in the unlikely event that I abandon it.

This page was created with the primary purpose of serving as a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Mencius Moldbug, and with the secondary purpose as serving as a useful reference. It is not a collection of individually interesting quotations, but a linearly structured document to be read from top to bottom. To the greatest extent possible, I have attempted to align the chronological order of the quotations with the need for instructional rhythm and structure. (The former limitation is actually quite conducive to the latter, as both are related to the author's development of his own thoughts.) At the highest level, the page proceeds from the most foundational and general ideas to more complex and particular ideas. At a finer level, the quotations alternate between general observations and principles followed by specific applications and explanations, a pattern that can be visualized where a series of short bolded quotations is followed by longer quotations. At the lowest level, each quotation anticipates, develops, or supplements the surrounding quotations. There are also humorous and provocative asides that are intended to reward and surprise the reader.

The quotations I have extracted have been selected in accordance with the following considerations: aesthetic unity, concision, eloquence, idiosyncrasy, linguistic consistency, novelty, and structural relevance. A quotation is inimical to aesthetic unity if it uses distracting wording or looks typographically disruptive. An idiosyncratic quotation serves to demonstrate the author's personality, rather than his ideas. The other criteria require no explanation.

Quotations have been altered to correct errors of spelling and wording, to promote typographic consistency, and to promote concision. Omissions are always indicated by an ellipsis placed between square brackets. (The author tends to use hyphens in place of dashes, omits the Oxford comma, and includes punctuation inside of quotation marks, tendencies which should all be corrected.) For example,


 * technical progress → technological progress
 * Marxist-Leninism → Marxism–Leninism
 * 20th-century connection → twentieth-century connection
 * I exaggerate - slightly. → I exaggerate—slightly.
 * orderly - ie, right-wing. → orderly—i.e. right-wing.
 * the word "democracy" → the word democracy

A quotation is bolded if it is short—i.e. if it is around 140 characters, or can be easily modified to be expressed in that amount—and is aphoristic or provocative. Only complete sentences should be bolded, omitting any unnecessary constructions at the beginning of the sentence, in which case the bolding should not extend to the punctuation at the end of the sentence. For example,


 * In other words, our so-called democracy is dependent not on the wisdom of the people, but on the internal power politics of the official church. [Period not bolded.]
 * We have trouble understanding the twentieth century because we grew up in it, and our brains remain contaminated with its heinous memetic baggage. [Period bolded.]

To reduce redundancy when citing sources, only the first instance of a web page needs to link to the web page and mention the date and the name of the web site. However, if a quotation appears on the same web page but at a different date, then the date should be mentioned again. For example,


 * Why conservatives never quite catch the boat, Unqualified Reservations (June 21, 2007)
 * Why conservatives never quite catch the boat
 * Why conservatives never quite catch the boat (June 22, 2007)
 * Why conservatives never quite catch the boat

--Carlylean (talk) 17:11, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

2.0
In the course of editing this page, I've become aware of certain inadequacies in my method, and will restart my search for quotations from the very beginning. I will be much less liberal about altering the quotations, except to trim them in the interests of concision.--Carlylean (talk) 14:46, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

The first complete chronological bibliography of all Unqualified Reservations posts

 * [2007.04.23] A formalist manifesto
 * [2007.04.24] The case against democracy: ten red pills
 * [2007.04.25] Why do atheists believe in religion?
 * [2007.04.26] Improper political influence over government decision-making
 * [2007.04.26] Plague of Dead Sharks, by Alan Dugan
 * [2007.04.27] The essential idea of leftism
 * [2007.04.27] My new comments policy
 * [2007.04.28] Jaroslav Hašek and the kernel-monitor meme
 * [2007.04.29] Journalistic independence
 * [2007.04.29] Terminology and an open floor
 * [2007.05.01] What if there's no such thing as chaotic good?
 * [2007.05.02] He who refuses does not repent
 * [2007.05.02] The genius of the New Deal design
 * [2007.05.05] Two kinds of repeaters
 * [2007.05.06] Castes of the United States
 * [2007.05.07] The BDH-OV conflict
 * [2007.05.07] What's ominous is that this dreary world comes after years of meticulous planning
 * [2007.05.08] The Utley rule and the BDH alliance
 * [2007.05.08] Bad Poem of the Week: "Vanitas Mundi" by Robin Ekiss
 * [2007.05.09] This richly colored medium square
 * [2007.05.10] Roth, castes, chimps and Rangordnung
 * [2007.05.10] Consider the true cost of living with Wiccaphobia
 * [2007.05.11] The Antisingularity
 * [2007.05.12] Watch the wide sea
 * [2007.05.12] The iron polygon: power in the United States
 * [2007.05.13] Political sanity in one easy step
 * [2007.05.13] Is anyone else getting a Blogger error
 * [2007.05.13] Secularists for secularism!
 * [2007.05.14] Idealism is not great
 * [2007.05.15] The Laphroaig is unawarded
 * [2007.05.16] UR's plan to fix Iraq
 * [2007.05.16] Our planet is infested with pseudo-atheists
 * [2007.05.17] "The evidence of such sheer dishonesty in science was hard to accept."
 * [2007.05.19] The magic of symmetric sovereignty
 * [2007.05.20] Understanding racial idealism
 * [2007.05.21] Popularchy: rule of the People
 * [2007.05.23] Limited government as antipropertarian idealism
 * [2007.05.23] The unlikely appeal of nonidealism
 * [2007.05.24] The Fnargland Grand Challenge
 * [2007.05.25] Good government as good customer service
 * [2007.05.27] L.E. Sissman: poet of the century
 * [2007.05.28] Five ways to classify belief systems
 * [2007.05.29] The Democrats: party of lies
 * [2007.05.31] The reconciliation of government with liberty
 * [2007.06.01] Attack of the jazz racists
 * [2007.06.01] Hillary fires back
 * [2007.06.02] The generalist's stone: a stable mind
 * [2007.06.04] Principles and platitudes
 * [2007.06.06] The mystery of the gray government
 * [2007.06.07] Liquid
 * [2007.06.07] Why there's no such thing as "liberal media bias"
 * [2007.06.09] Separation of information and security
 * [2007.06.12] A short history of ultracalvinism
 * [2007.06.12] UR will return on Wednesday, June 20
 * [2007.06.19] Friction in theory and practice
 * [2007.06.20] Moderation
 * [2007.06.21] Why conservatives never quite catch the boat
 * [2007.06.22] Some objections to ultracalvinism
 * [2007.06.23] Why I am not an anti-Semite
 * [2007.06.24] The ultracalvinist hypothesis: in perspective
 * [2007.06.25] Cement
 * [2007.06.26] Cryptocalvinism, slightly tweaked
 * [2007.06.28] The Rawlsian god: cryptocalvinism in action
 * [2007.06.30] Carlyle rages against the coming of the light
 * [2007.07.01] The mystery of pacifism
 * [2007.07.03] Why, when, and how to abolish the United States
 * [2007.07.06] I wonder if Jonah Goldberg talks about this
 * [2007.07.07] A typical moderate-liberal-constitutional-monarchist thought
 * [2007.07.09] UR-ICF #1: Carlyle, Montagu, Nock
 * [2007.07.11] My Navrozov moments
 * [2007.07.14] The Pigeon
 * [2007.07.17] Universalism: postwar progressivism as a Christian sect
 * [2007.07.18] Administrivia
 * [2007.07.21] Miscellaneous answers to unanswered comments
 * [2007.07.25] Democracy as an adaptive fiction
 * [2007.07.27] Conrad reviews Africa Addio
 * [2007.07.28] Samantha Power rules the world
 * [2007.07.30] Ten lines for Dorothy Parker
 * [2007.07.31] Universalism and original sin (guest post by Michael S.)
 * [2007.08.01] What's wrong with CS research
 * [2007.08.03] The country that used to exist
 * [2007.08.06] James Burnham's Dante: Politics as Wish
 * [2007.08.08] The secret of anti-Americanism
 * [2007.08.13] Be infinitely devoted to your beloved owners
 * [2007.08.15] Against political freedom
 * [2007.08.18] "Life is better without politics."
 * [2007.08.19] Rotary management: the next big thing
 * [2007.08.20] A landscape of bewildering contradictions
 * [2007.08.22] Uberfact: the ultimate social verifier
 * [2007.08.28] A reservationist epistemology
 * [2007.08.29] A brief terminology adjustment
 * [2007.08.29] The state is not a stable eleemosynary institution
 * [2007.09.01] Statistical analysis moons the bull
 * [2007.09.05] A general theory of corruption
 * [2007.09.08] Mediocracy: definition, etiology and treatment
 * [2007.09.09] The real meaning of diversity
 * [2007.09.12] Method and apparatus for safe and effective regime change
 * [2007.09.16] Further conversation on regime change
 * [2007.09.17] Since some people seem to still think I'm exaggerating this stuff
 * [2007.09.19] Is journalism official?
 * [2007.09.22] Comments on "Is journalism official?"
 * [2007.09.22] Overcome like a fiend by the urge to link
 * [2007.09.26] How Dawkins got pwned (part 1)
 * [2007.10.04] How Dawkins got pwned (part 2)
 * [2007.10.08] Duelnode: another free startup idea
 * [2007.10.10] Bunting: Chomei at Toyama
 * [2007.10.10] Interstitial comments on Dawkins
 * [2007.10.11] How Dawkins got pwned (part 3)
 * [2007.10.16] Some quick meta-comments
 * [2007.10.18] How Dawkins got pwned (part 4)
 * [2007.10.25] How Dawkins got pwned (part 5)
 * [2007.10.30] Austria felix
 * [2007.10.30] Professor Dawkins, Dr. Watson, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster
 * [2007.10.31] How Dawkins got pwned (part 6)
 * [2007.11.08] How Dawkins got pwned (part 7)
 * [2007.11.08] Musharraf's rebellion, or: how to read a newspaper
 * [2007.11.09] UR's advice for President Musharraf
 * [2007.11.10] Half Sigma goes large
 * [2007.11.10] Pakistani emigres on the Musharraf question
 * [2007.11.12] Nuclear neocolonialism: a formalist design for nuclear law
 * [2007.11.15] Who the heck is Benn Steil?
 * [2007.11.19] Five problems with Google Android
 * [2007.11.20] Ian Smith: 1919-2007
 * [2007.11.22] Why I am not a white nationalist
 * [2007.11.28] The Jewish question and other links
 * [2007.11.29] Tryfon Tolides: an almost pure empty poetry
 * [2007.12.06] Matthew Yglesias: anatomy of an intellectual crackhead
 * [2007.12.07] Short administrative note
 * [2007.12.12] Why I am not a libertarian
 * [2007.12.20] Neocameralism and the escalator of massarchy
 * [2007.12.27] An explanation of democratic centrism
 * [2007.12.27] Benazir Bhutto: mob hit in Pakistan
 * [2007.12.31] Poem for the new year
 * [2008.01.03] A straightforward explanation of the present financial crisis (part 1)
 * [2008.01.10] An open letter to Ron Paul supporters (part 1)
 * [2008.01.10] Not Ron Paul!
 * [2008.01.16] Questions for Arnold Kling, Megan McArdle, Will Wilkinson, and all other Beltway libertarians
 * [2008.01.17] How to actually defeat the US government
 * [2008.01.19] Revipedia: how to defeat the US government, reprise
 * [2008.01.20] How to defeat the US government: summary
 * [2008.01.23] How to actually restore the gold standard (or not)
 * [2008.01.30] How I stopped believing in democracy
 * [2008.02.04] UR's endorsements for 2008
 * [2008.02.05] UR's comment policy
 * [2008.02.06] How to read and enjoy bogus history
 * [2008.02.13] A theory of the ruling underclass
 * [2008.02.21] Democracy as a historical phenomenon
 * [2008.02.28] Return to Castle Goldenstein: the gold market in a nutshell
 * [2008.03.05] UR will return on Thursday, April 17
 * [2008.03.19] Sibyl Carlyle Moldbug, 3/18/08
 * [2008.04.16] UR returns
 * [2008.04.16] An open letter to open-minded progressives (part 1)
 * [2008.04.23] Open letter pt. 2: more historical anomalies
 * [2008.04.30] OL3: the Jacobite history of the world
 * [2008.05.07] OL4: Dr. Johnson's hypothesis
 * [2008.05.14] OL5: the shortest way to world peace
 * [2008.05.21] OL6: the lost theory of government
 * [2008.05.28] OL7: the ugly truth about government
 * [2008.06.04] OL8: a reset is not a revolution
 * [2008.06.11] OL9: how to uninstall a cathedral
 * [2008.06.19] OLX: a simple sovereign bankruptcy procedure
 * [2008.06.25] OLXI: the truth about left and right
 * [2008.06.29] Gasoline
 * [2008.07.02] OLXII: what is to be done?
 * [2008.07.09] OLXIII: tactics and structures of any prospective restoration
 * [2008.07.17] OLXIV: rules for reactionaries
 * [2008.07.23] Grant's Tomb
 * [2008.07.31] Standards
 * [2008.08.06] The Novelist
 * [2008.08.13] Resartus: a social revision engine
 * [2008.08.20] De gustibus non computandum: or, economics needs a divorce
 * [2008.08.27] America: vampire of the world (part 1)
 * [2008.08.31] Sarah Palin: the proletarian candidate
 * [2008.09.03] How to occupy and govern a foreign country
 * [2008.09.10] America: vampire of the world (part 2)
 * [2008.09.17] A clean-slate accounting of the dollar (part 1)
 * [2008.09.24] Odds and ends
 * [2008.09.25] Maturity transformation considered harmful: an unauthorized biography of the bank crisis
 * [2008.09.26] UR will return on Thursday, November 6
 * [2008.10.09] A regime-change signal: maturity crisis in gold?
 * [2008.10.13] The Misesian explanation of the bank crisis
 * [2008.10.26] México
 * [2008.10.31] Did Barack Obama go to Columbia?
 * [2008.10.31] Another interpretation of Obama at Columbia
 * [2008.11.06] President Obama, with a little perspective
 * [2008.11.11] A quick explanation of "fractional-reserve banking"
 * [2008.11.12] Barack Obama, for the last time
 * [2008.11.13] Patchwork: a positive vision (part 1)
 * [2008.11.20] Patchwork 2: profit strategies for our new corporate overlords
 * [2008.11.27] Patchwork 3: what we have and what's so bad about it
 * [2008.12.03] Patchwork 4: a reactionary theory of world peace
 * [2008.12.09] UR will return on Thursday, January 8
 * [2008.12.09] Translating Asif Ali Zardari
 * [2008.12.11] Nosedive
 * [2009.01.08] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 1)
 * [2009.01.15] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 2)
 * [2009.01.22] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 3)
 * [2009.01.29] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 4)
 * [2009.02.05] Halogen
 * [2009.02.12] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 5)
 * [2009.02.13] Puffs of smoke from the gold volcano
 * [2009.02.19] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 6)
 * [2009.02.26] Lycidas' Bull
 * [2009.03.05] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 7)
 * [2009.03.10] From 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' (Yeats)
 * [2009.03.12] 'Pearl Harbor' (Jeffers)
 * [2009.03.19] The Raven
 * [2009.03.26] The Geithner plan, slightly demystified
 * [2009.04.02] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 8)
 * [2009.04.09] America: zombie nation
 * [2009.04.16] Kendo
 * [2009.04.23] Quadrumana
 * [2009.04.30] From Luigi Barzini's The Europeans
 * [2009.05.07] Democraphobia goes (slightly) viral
 * [2009.05.09] Preston Brooks, the Palestine lobby, and the Nolan chart
 * [2009.05.14] Res Gestae
 * [2009.05.21] Futarchy considered retarded
 * [2009.05.23] Professor Hanson responds
 * [2009.05.28] A Short Note on Demons
 * [2009.06.04] Judge Sotomayor: a reactionary exegesis
 * [2009.06.11] Evidence in current history
 * [2009.06.18] The crimes of James von Brunn and Marcus Epstein
 * [2009.06.20] Émile Faguet on legal realism
 * [2009.06.25] UR succumbs to virology
 * [2009.07.02] Secession, liberty, and dictatorship
 * [2009.07.08] Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
 * [2009.07.16] Why Carlyle matters
 * [2009.07.23] Carlyle in the 20th century: fascism and socialism
 * [2009.07.30] Poem
 * [2009.08.06] UR's crash course in sound economics
 * [2009.08.13] UR is on vacation
 * [2009.08.20] From Cromer to Romer and back again: colonialism for the 21st century
 * [2009.08.27] Kennedy
 * [2009.08.28] A rare public appearance
 * [2009.09.03] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9a)
 * [2009.09.10] The Honduran rebellion - or, State's invisible world displayed
 * [2009.09.17] Young America
 * [2009.09.21] UR: banned in San Francisco
 * [2009.09.24] Seasteading, without that warm glow
 * [2009.10.01] Ends and odds
 * [2009.10.08] UR postponed due to BTD
 * [2009.10.09] Robert Lowell on the Obama prize
 * [2009.10.12] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9b)
 * [2009.10.21] South Africa: a message to Jenny
 * [2009.10.21] South Africa: the solution
 * [2009.10.29] UR will ship no wine before its time
 * [2009.11.05] Alien Acid Beast
 * [2009.11.13] The Dire Problem and the Virtual Option
 * [2009.11.18] Hunting for whites after the cancellation of the release of money
 * [2009.11.19] A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9d)
 * [2009.11.26] Climategate and other correspondence
 * [2009.12.03] Gold and the central banks: the game theory
 * [2009.12.14] Climategate: history's message
 * [2009.12.17] Shooting the alligator and other conversations
 * [2009.12.18] Expiring liquidity facilities: bad plan, Stan
 * [2009.12.23] UR will return on January 7, 2010
 * [2010.01.07] Maxwell's equations of software
 * [2010.01.10] Public appearance
 * [2010.01.14] Urbit: functional programming from scratch
 * [2010.01.18] The Hanson-Moldbug debate
 * [2010.01.21] The Mencius Moldbug Babysitting Fund
 * [2010.01.23] MMBF: 2-day results
 * [2010.01.27] MMBF: 2 days left to give
 * [2010.01.28] On sovereign financial reconciliation
 * [2010.01.28] MMBF: the kittens are saved!
 * [2010.02.04] From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force
 * [2010.02.09] Maturity transformation: cat, bag, out
 * [2010.02.11] PIPE shorting and Professor Hanson's head
 * [2010.02.18] Horseshoe Pit in Golden Gate Park
 * [2010.02.22] One-sided conversation with a headless professor
 * [2010.02.25] UR postponed due to BTD
 * [2010.02.28] Uncorrected Evidence 39
 * [2010.03.04] Corrected evidence
 * [2010.03.04] World War II: primary sourcebook
 * [2010.03.11] The future of search
 * [2010.03.19] Divine-right monarchy for the modern secular intellectual
 * [2010.03.20] The true election: a practical option for real political change
 * [2010.04.03] The credit-default swap and the bullion banks; a question and a statement
 * [2010.04.16] Join the Froude Society!
 * [2010.04.18] Professors young and old: an involuntary debate
 * [2010.04.25] Unarmed combat in the digital armchair
 * [2010.05.03] Solzhenitsyn, "As Breathing and Consciousness Return," 1973
 * [2010.05.09] Strange rumblings in Dollarstan
 * [2010.05.12] Please comment on Froude, Maine and/or Carlyle
 * [2010.06.08] President Colacho makes you his bitch
 * [2010.06.25] Comments
 * [2010.06.27] Three homeworks for Professor Hanson
 * [2010.07.12] Actual letter to a liberal friend
 * [2010.07.26] Race: a modest proposal
 * [2010.08.09] Open thread for all birthers
 * [2010.08.17] Abecedarium Nordmannicum
 * [2010.08.29] The rabble of Imperial Rome
 * [2010.09.12] Henry Beckett Moldbug
 * [2010.09.12] Henry (9/11/10)
 * [2010.10.01] Slow history and the mysterious 20th century
 * [2010.11.03] Robespierre
 * [2010.11.04] Democracy, cis and trans; Maine's law
 * [2010.11.08] UR: the heard-it-here-first files
 * [2010.11.18] The Lightworker wants to touch your junk
 * [2010.12.08] Homage to Slobodan Milosevic
 * [2010.12.26] Monetary reconstruction: presented without comment
 * [2010.12.29] The 20th century in two short quotes
 * [2011.01.22] Your goverment in pictures, 1954
 * [2011.01.28] Egypt: US foreign policy at the nadir
 * [2011.02.03] On government employment
 * [2011.02.05] Pictures from the human-rights empire: a prose collage
 * [2011.02.24] Viscount Hinchingbrooke demurs
 * [2011.03.16] Libya, the nadir achieved
 * [2011.04.09] A small segue of subject
 * [2011.04.10] Ivory Coast: are they going to come and kill my cat?
 * [2011.04.21] On monetary restandardization
 * [2011.05.01] Carlyle and Froude on monarchy and religion
 * [2011.05.04] USG: more Russian than the Tsar, more Muslim than Osama
 * [2011.06.09] Slow history extravaganza
 * [2011.07.19] A century of academic sovereignty
 * [2011.07.24] Right-wing terrorism as folk activism
 * [2011.07.25] The indisputable humanity of Anders Behring Breivik
 * [2011.07.31] Dispatches from the real America
 * [2011.08.01] Petition against the reactosphere
 * [2011.08.05] The Reuther memorandum, 1961
 * [2011.08.09] Movers and shakers in sports &amp; leisure
 * [2011.08.16] Choose empire
 * [2011.09.05] The demons
 * [2011.09.28] Occasional discourse on the hate question
 * [2011.10.06] Thos. Carlyle on Steve Jobs
 * [2011.10.11] Professor Krugman on maturity transformation
 * [2011.10.12] Personal cloud computing in 2020 (or not)
 * [2011.10.26] The Holocaust: a Nazi perspective
 * [2011.11.15] Three poems of Weldon Kees
 * [2012.01.16] Race relations in early New York
 * [2012.01.23] The kiss: "Stalin was feeling extremely gay"
 * [2012.02.23] BIL in Long Beach, Mar 3-4
 * [2012.02.24] The year of jellyfish
 * [2012.06.03] Prussifornia
 * [2012.09.27] Dominion
 * [2012.11.07] Romney! He sucks!
 * [2012.11.30] Adore the river of meat
 * [2012.12.24] Some perspectives from Prudentius
 * [2013.01.06] Are we big in France?
 * [2013.01.16] Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz
 * [2013.01.20] Christians have right to vandalize abortion clinics, Duke law professor claims
 * [2013.01.24] How Bitcoin dies
 * [2013.02.09] Charles Stross discovers the Cathedral
 * [2013.02.20] The greatness of Lawrence Auster
 * [2013.03.13] Sam Altman is not a blithering idiot
 * [2013.03.19] RIP Bitcoin, I think
 * [2013.03.19] Jacques Ellul on the demand for propaganda
 * [2013.03.21] Two words for Tyler Cowen and Ilya Somin
 * [2013.03.29] The path to (dark) enlightenment
 * [2013.03.29] Lawrence Auster, 1949-2013
 * [2013.04.04] Felix Salmon's Bitcoin FUD
 * [2013.04.08] Bitcoin is money, Bitcoin is a bubble
 * [2013.04.25] Bitcoin panic light flashing bright amber
 * [2013.06.20] Civil liberties and the single reactionary
 * [2013.09.14] Technology, communism and the Brown Scare
 * [2013.09.23] Urbit demo Sep 25 in SF
 * [2013.09.28] General solicitation
 * [2013.11.29] Mr. Jones is rather concerned
 * [2014.02.01] Crocodile Prayer
 * [2014.08.02] Cath Lab (2012)
 * [2014.08.02] The Anarchy
 * [2014.08.02] Hiatus
 * [2016.04.18] Coda

--Carlylean (talk) 16:46, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Just discovered that Unqualified Reservations e-books has an even more complete list than the one I found on Moldbuggery. I guess this wasn't the first.

--Carlylean (talk) 15:29, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Actually, the list on Unqualified Reservations e-books wasn't complete at all. I've fixed the list to be the first true complete list.

--Carlylean (talk) 16:23, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Added Coda.

--Carlylean (talk) 02:16, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Mencius Moldbug's external contributions
This is a nearly complete list of every contribution Mencius Moldbug has ever made outside of his own blog following his sabbatical period beginning with his appearance as John Law. When I have time, I'll expand the list to link to every single individual comment instead of just Google queries.


 * 2blowhards.com | Mencius
 * abu muqawama | Mencius Moldbug
 * Across Difficult Country | Mencius Moldbug
 * Age of Treason | Mencius Moldbug
 * bilconference | Mencius Moldbug
 * Bruce Charlton's Notions | Mencius Moldbug
 * Cassandra Does Tokyo | Mencius Moldbug
 * Center for a New American Security (see "Offsite Threads")
 * Climate Audit | Mencius
 * Climate Audit | moldbug
 * Council on Foreign Relations | moldbug
 * Diana West | Mencius Moldbug
 * Discriminations | Mencius Moldbug
 * Easily Distracted | mencius
 * Easily Distracted | moldbug
 * EconLog | Mencius
 * EconLog | Mencius Moldbug
 * Entitled to an Opinion | Mencius Moldbug
 * Entitled to an Opinion | Moldbug Transcripts
 * Entitled to an Opinion | Mencius
 * Eunomia | mencius
 * Eunomia | moldbug
 * Foseti
 * Gene Expression | Mencius
 * Gene Expression | Moldbug
 * HackerNews | cyarvin
 * HackerNews | mencius
 * HackerNews | moldbug
 * HackerNews | urbit
 * HackerNews | yarvin9
 * Half Sigma | Mencius
 * Inc.com | Curtis Yarvin
 * interfluidity | mencius
 * interfluidity | moldbug
 * IvyGate | Mencius Moldbug
 * John Law | John Law
 * Julian Sanchez | Mencius
 * Less Wrong | Mencius_Moldbug
 * Liberal Biorealism | Mencius Moldbug
 * Macro Man | Moldbug
 * Mangan's | Mencius Moldbug (unavailable)
 * MANSIZEDTARGET.COM | Mencius Moldbug
 * Matt Forney | Moldbug
 * Medium | curtis.yarvin
 * Moron Lab | C. Guy Yarvin
 * Naked Capitalism | Mencius Moldbug
 * Overcoming Bias | Moldbug
 * ozrisk.net | Mencius
 * race/history/evolution notes | Mencius Moldbug
 * Rajiv Sethi | Mencius Moldbug
 * Rationally Speaking | Mencius Moldbug
 * Reddit | boldmug
 * Reddit | cyarvin
 * Reddit | cyarvin
 * Reddit | johnlaw
 * Reddit | mencius
 * Reddit | urbit
 * RGE Monitor (see "Offsite Threads")
 * Safehaven.com | John Law
 * ScienceBlogs | Mencius
 * ScienceBlogs | moldbug
 * Shtetl-Optimized | Boldmug
 * Shtetl-Optimized | Moldbug
 * SF Weekly | Curtis Yarvin
 * Social Matter | Anonymous
 * Steve Sailer: iSteve | Mencius Moldbug
 * The American Conservative | moldbug
 * The Atlantic | Mencius
 * The Joy of Curmudgeonry | Mencius Moldbug
 * The Seasteading Institute | moldbug
 * The Unz Review | Mencius
 * The Unz Review | Mencius Moldbug
 * The Unz Review | Moldbug
 * TheMoneyIllusion | moldbug
 * Unenumerated | Mencius Moldbug
 * Unqualified Offerings | mencius
 * Varieties of Unreligious Experience | Mencius Moldbug
 * View from the Right | Mencius Moldbug
 * Vox | Curtis Yarvin
 * West Hunter | Mencius Moldbug
 * What's Wrong with the World | Mencius
 * What's Wrong with the World | moldbug
 * Will Wilkinson | Curtis
 * Will Wilkinson | Mencius

Excerpts, Interviews, Lectures
--Carlylean (talk) 16:46, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The Atlantic | Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement
 * Breitbart | An Establishment Conservative's Guide To The Alt-Right
 * Buzzfeed | Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream
 * John A De Goes | Curtis Yarvin
 * Mother Jones | Meet Silicon Valley’s Secretive Alt-Right Followers
 * Software Engineering Daily | Urbit with Curtis Yarvin and Galen Wolfe-Pauly
 * The Ether Review | The Ether Review #46 — Curtis Yarvin & Galen Wolfe-Pauly on Urbit
 * Vox | Neo-monarchist blogger denies he's chatting with Steve Bannon
 * YouTube | BIL2012 - Mencius Moldbug: How to Reboot the US Government
 * YouTube | Curtis Yarvin: Urbit- A Clean Slate Functional Operating Stack - λC 2016
 * YouTube | Curtis Yarvin - Berkeley Open Mike
 * YouTube | Robin Hanson and "Mencius Moldbug" debate futarchy at Foresight 2010
 * YouTube | That's Why You Never Drink Red
 * YouTube | Urbit
 * YouTube | Urbit - Mencius Moldbug - Personal Cloud Community Gathering Sept 2013

Updated. --Carlylean (talk) 06:27, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Various compilations

 * lexarchy.com
 * mencius.xmas.ratry.ru (mencius.xmas.ratry.ru)
 * menciusmoldbug.wordpress.com
 * moldbug-abridged.blogspot.com
 * moldbuggery.blogspot.com
 * moreright.net
 * the-good-news.storage.googleapis.com
 * thedarkenlightenment.com
 * unqualified-reservations.com

--Carlylean (talk) 09:55, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

3.0
Article 3.0 is yet another attempt to compile all the most notable quotations. The big difference is that the article will now be accompanied by a separate page for quotations that did not make the cut.


 * Talk:Curtis Yarvin/Other quotations

Yarvin as Quotemesiter
These quotes were assembled by Carlylean, Yarvin's name on Wikipedia. So what we have here is a collection of quotes by the man being quoted, which obviously creates a conflict of interest. Is Yarvin capable of determining which of his quotes belong on his own Greatest Hits album? I don't think so. I'm going to whittle this page down to the most representative quotes. Yarvin isn't the greatest thinker of the 21st Century despite some claims. He doesn't deserve this long a quote page. Chisme (talk) 05:19, 7 March 2017 (UTC) [emphasis in original]"
 * Carlylean is not Moldbug.Cagliost (talk) 10:16, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think we have evidence one way or the other. The problem with this article lies not in whether it reflects self-interest or fan-interest, but in failing to reflect Wikiquote's purpose. As the article creator wrote above:
 * "'This page was created with the primary purpose of serving as a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Mencius Moldbug, and with the secondary purpose as serving as a useful reference. It is not a collection of individually interesting quotations'
 * This is not a collection of quotable quotes. It is an attempt to synthesize a thesis and compile reference materials. Chisme has made a start at trimming the article down, but most of what remains does not really belong here either. I would recommend a different approach to taking out the trash: begin by identifying any quotations that are actually quoted (or at least directly discussed) in reliable sources, and remove everything else.
 * Coverage in the mainstream press indicates he is actually notable for something beyond the dark corner of the internet he inhabits. Let us quote what he is notable for saying, and only what he is notable for saying. ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:22, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree with Ninguable: "Chisme has made a start at trimming the article down, but most of what remains does not really belong here either. I would recommend a different approach to taking out the trash: begin by identifying any quotations that are actually quoted (or at least directly discussed) in reliable sources, and remove everything else." I would like to BE BOLD and start from scratch. As it stands now, many of these quotes are from secondary sources (blogs in which Moldbug commented). Moreover, the citations aren't presented such that anyone can click and go to the source. And the quotes are presented in time sequence, which doesn't make sense at all. I am going to assembjle quotes and put them under descriptive headings so readers can get a better sense of Yarvin's ideas. Any objections? Chisme (talk) 19:08, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * You know exactly what you've been doing. All quotes that might give the article the comedical undertones Yarvin is actually quite good at have been strategically removed. Furthermore, you have ordered the few remaining quotes in a way that suggests, he is a prolific writer on and apologist of Nazism. This is plain wrong. Vandalism. Biohistorian15 (talk) 22:06, 12 March 2024 (UTC)