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this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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He also launched a paid dating blog on Substack, which is as on-brand as starting a cult. This one uses the Market model which I do not recommend (what I recommend is "attend collaborative activities with people of a gender you find hot, especially creative or physical activities, and if you like them let them know": this is extremely hard for many of us, but the solution is 'find someone extroverted who likes local activities and go to the ones he or she recommends' not reading a blog). https://www.secondperson.dating/p/markets-in-dating
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He uses the word egregore in his dating advice.
It's like spammers deliberately including typos to select for recipients who are more vulnerable to phishing. If you say "Dating discourse is an egregore evolved for survival" to someone and their genitals do not retreat into hibernation, then they are ready for recruitment into your cult. Statistically, they will have already read the Sequences and attended at least one Lighthaven BBQ with a white supremacist.
I only know that word from an old (pre-pandemic) book episode of Behind the Bastards, so the immediate association is esoteric antisemitism. I'm not sure how common this is but it seems to support your thesis here.
That's the thing about esotericism. You think it's all happy hippie New Age frou-frou, and then suddenly, whoops all Julius Evola.
He also alludes to the Robin Hanson/Scott Alexander guff about the need to distribute sex to needy men. The specific story he links involves an antisemitic edgelord who seems to be planning violence after his last girlfriend leaves him.
LessWrongers, if anyone is reading this, there are spaces where you can be social and not be exposed to these vile ideas which will destroy you and maybe some of the lonely people who give you a chance.
It always trips me up how this is about state sponsored arranged marriages (preferably to virgins), instead of like pushing to decriminalize sex work in the united states.