Curtis Yarvin is a major influence on JD Vance and Steve Bannon. His ideas are nonsense.

It has come to my attention that world leaders like JD Vance and Steve Bannon are avid and enthusiastic readers of a computer engineer named Curtis Yarvin. He has written mostly about politics but also about technology and current affairs. 

What might be most alarming to some that our future vice president is taking Yarvin’s work as an influence, is that his writings are largely composed of anti-democratic and pro-authoritarian themes, along with some inclusion of racism (he claimed that...