The Anti-Reactionary FAQ

The exhaustive companion rebuttal to the neoreaction steelman, read in full: the cited social indicators are cherry-picked or reversed; "secure" monarchs were in fact constantly deposed and neither freer nor less bloody ("demotist" is a made-up category); the North/South Korea "natural experiment"; the Cathedral explained by the Law of Large Numbers and by gay-rights history (a grassroots movement the NYT actually opposed); progressivism grounded instead in the World Values Survey and economic development (echoing Thrive/Survive); and a thorough demolition of Moldbug's joint-stock-corporate state, including its "Virtual Option" and its drift back into communism/slavery. Scott later partly disavowed Section 1.

Quality 85 · Excellent. Comprehensive, rigorous, witty, and for years THE reference rebuttal of neoreaction - very high craft and influence; the full read confirms its scope (the Korea experiment, the corporate-state takedown, the WVS grounding). Held just below the top tier because the subject has faded and Section 1 was partly retracted. Top-Excellent.

Claude’s paradigm shift 56 · Moderate. Decisively won the argument in the rationalist mainstream, but via comprehensive empiricism rather than a new paradigm; the freshest moves were specific (Law of Large Numbers vs. the Cathedral; the WVS/economic grounding of the leftward shift). Moderate, edging notable.

Real-world impact 3 · Moderate. For years THE reference rebuttal of neoreaction — it concretely shaped an online ideological contest, blunting NRx's spread within the rationalist-adjacent audience. Real movement-level influence, but niche, now-faded, and purely discursive (no material change) — modest RWI.