Interesting Links for 01-04-2015

[andrewducker]

• Playing Pillars of Eternity as a party of bears.
  (tags: bears games )
• Generous welfare benefits make people more likely to want to work, not less
  (tags: work welfare )
• The the software studio that created Tomb Raider fell apart
  (tags: games fail )
• How Putin could lose power
  (tags: Russia politics )
• On Saving the World and Other Delusions
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Comments

[heron61]

On Saving the World and Other Delusions

I noticed the url on this one - "moreright.net" and immediately hoped it was a response to less wrong that lacked the cultishness, right-wing libertarian undertone, and the blind faith in singular answers for complex issues of that site. Instead, I found something far stranger - an actual full out crackpot "dark enlightenment" blog, wow, definitely one of the weirder sites I've seen in a while.

[andrewducker]

Oooh, I need to go look now - I hadn't investigated the rest of the site at all!

(And yes, I think bits of LessWrong are great, but the tone really puts me off of it.)

[newandrewhickey]

MoreRight is the blog that Michael Anissimov and some others founded because they thought LessWrong wasn't enough of a crackpotty fringe hideout for MRAs, PUAs, neo-reactionaries, and people who believe in "race realism", and they wanted to take all that stuff off to its own site where they wouldn't have to deal with opposing opinions^H^H^Hcould have a productive discussion.
It's basically all the people who are why Scott Alexander says "no race and gender on the open thread!" to his commenters.

[doubtingmichael]

I am tickled (probably more than I should be) to have clicked on a link about "How Putin Could Lose Power", and discover it's an interview with a man who wrote a tabletop RPG that I own. (Given it's "Mythic Russia", I was fairly confident this was not a coincidence of names, and Google has confirmed it.)

[andrewducker]

That's pretty awesome.