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Curtis Guy Yarvin
Curtis Guy Yarvin
	File:Mencius Moldbug.jpg
Nationality	American
Other names	Mencius Moldbug
Alma mater	Brown University (1992)[citation needed]; Cornell University; The Johns Hopkins University; University of California, Berkeley (1994)[citation needed];
School	Dark Enlightenment;
Notable ideas	Neoreaction;
Website	Unqualified Reservations

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Curtis Guy Yarvin (born 1973), better known by his pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American computer scientist and neoreactionary. He is the creator of the Urbit computing platform and the author of the blog Unqualified Reservations.

His writings have played a foundational role in the creation of the neoreactionary movement. Yarvin initially used the term "formalism" to describe his thought (a usage inspired by legal formalism^[1]) but the term neoreactionary (which Yarvin first used in 2008^[2]^[3]) spread after Arnold Kling described Yarvin and others espousing similar ideas as such in 2010.^[4]^[5]

His opinions have attracted controversy. In 2015, his invitation to speak about Urbit at the Strange Loop conference was rescinded on account of his political views.^[6]

Works

References

^ Moldbug, Mencius (April 23, 2007). "A formalist manifesto". Unqualified Reservations. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
^ Moldbug, Mencius (May 1, 2008). "OL3: the Jacobite history of the world". Unqualified Reservations.
^ Moldbug, Mencius (June 19, 2008). "OLX: a simple sovereign bankruptcy procedure". Unqualified Reservations.
^ Kling, Arnold (July 18, 2010). "The Neo-Reactionaries". EconLog. Library of Economics and Liberty. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
^ Finley, Klint (November 22, 2013). "Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries". TechCrunch.
^ Auerbach, David (June 10, 2015). "The Curious Case of Mencius Moldbug". Slate. Retrieved August 20, 2015.

External links

[1] Moldbug, Mencius (April 23, 2007). "A formalist manifesto". Unqualified Reservations. Retrieved June 21, 2015.

[UR:_a_jacobite_history_of_the_world-2] Moldbug, Mencius (May 1, 2008). "OL3: the Jacobite history of the world". Unqualified Reservations.

[UR:_a_simple_sovereign_bankruptcy_procedure-3] Moldbug, Mencius (June 19, 2008). "OLX: a simple sovereign bankruptcy procedure". Unqualified Reservations.

[4] Kling, Arnold (July 18, 2010). "The Neo-Reactionaries". EconLog. Library of Economics and Liberty. Retrieved June 21, 2015.

[TechCrunch:_Geeks_for_Monarchy-5] Finley, Klint (November 22, 2013). "Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries". TechCrunch.

[Slate:_Mencius_Moldbug-6] Auerbach, David (June 10, 2015). "The Curious Case of Mencius Moldbug". Slate. Retrieved August 20, 2015.

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