Man, I would really love to read a deep dive either on the creation of HPMoR and its consequences, or an analysis of the work itself.

There's a book about it! By @elsandifer.bsky.socialwww.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/05...

The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries

Author Elizabeth Sandifer explains the dangerous ideas of the far-right neoreactionaries, who have ties to Silicon Valley and a hostility toward democracy.

The whole rationalist movement seems like an underrated element of the 2010s internet soup that spawned Gamergate and the intellectual dark web, and I know enough to kind of see the shape of what happened but not the details.