Both Neoreaction: A Basilisk and Postcapitalist Desire try to act as a vaccine against the Nick Land infohazard, but what i’ve found more effective is actually The Vision Of Escaflowne. (ymmv)

I think the mistake Nick Land makes is the same one as evil Isaac Newton / Emperor Dunkirk. It’s the same mistake that Scott Alexander makes in the second half of Meditations on Moloch. In complex systems, black swan situations are always possible and can create radical and permanent change.

Land has inured himself to a system he recognizes as horrible, and even writes an apologia for it, because he has convinced himself (by analyzing…