From career breakthroughs to professional milestones, explore how Curtis Yarvin made an impact.
Curtis Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is most notable as a founder, alongside Nick Land, of the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary (NRx) movement. NRx is characterized by its anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic views, advocating for a return to traditional social hierarchies and often expressing skepticism towards modern political systems.
In 2002, Curtis Yarvin began working on a personal software project that eventually became the Urbit networked computing platform.
In 2002, Yarvin founded the Urbit computer platform as a decentralized network of personal servers.
In 2007, Curtis Yarvin started the blog Unqualified Reservations to promote his political views and popularized the term "red pill" from The Matrix.
In 2007, Yarvin published "A formalist manifesto" on Unqualified Reservations, calling his concept of aligning property rights with political power "formalism".
In 2008, Yarvin first used the term "neoreactionary" to describe his project.
In 2012, Yarvin introduced the acronym "RAGE" (Retire All Government Employees) during a talk.
In 2012, under his Moldbug pseudonym, Curtis Yarvin gave a talk about "rebooting" the American government at the BIL Conference. He advocated for the acronym "RAGE", defined as "Retire All Government Employees", and shared controversial views on World War II and political correctness.
In 2013, Curtis Yarvin co-founded the company Tlon to oversee the Urbit project.
In 2013, Curtis Yarvin largely stopped updating his blog Unqualified Reservations to focus on Urbit.
In 2014, Curtis Yarvin stopped writing his blog "Unqualified Reservations".
In April 2016, Curtis Yarvin announced that Unqualified Reservations had "completed its mission".
In 2016, Yarvin was invited to present on the functional programming aspects of Urbit at LambdaConf 2016, which resulted in the withdrawal of five speakers, two sub-conferences, and several sponsors due to his controversial views.
In January 2019, Yarvin left Tlön, but retained some involvement in Urbit's development.
In 2019, Curtis Yarvin left Tlon, the company he co-founded to oversee the Urbit project.
In 2020, Curtis Yarvin began blogging his views under the page name Gray Mirror, where he speculates on how to achieve a fascist coup in America and replace democracy with a new form of monarchy.
In 2020, Curtis Yarvin started his newsletter "Gray Mirror", in which he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment.
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