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S2.26 Silicon Valley's Dark Side: Who is Curtis Yarvin and What Role Does Silicon Valley Play?
Curtis Yarvin, also known by his pseudonym "Mencius Moldbug," is a software engineer and political theorist who has developed a political philosophy often referred to as "neoreaction" or the "Dark Enlightenment." He was born in 1973, attended Brown University from 1988 to 1992, then was a graduate student in a computer science PhD program at UC Berkeley before dropping out after a year and a half to join a tech company. During the 1990s, Yarvin was influenced by the libertarian tech culture of Silicon Valley.
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