You owe him RSS, you owe him Markdown, you owe him Creative Commons, you owe him Reddit.

He was 26, wanted to share knowledge for free and they pushed him to suicide for it.

He would be 34 by now, and I cannot imagine all the wonderful things he would have created.

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    4 years ago

    mencius moldbug

    God good I thought that guy was only famous for trying to shill his darknet pyramid scheme, urbit.

    Guys, guys, what if we create another darknet but we bake a pyramid scheme into it? Won't it be liberating??? And you can call yourselves lords and dukes with your own peasants and you will all be free. Also we're going to greenfield everything without utilizing preexisting tools or referencing prior work and obfuscate how everything works while still being open source.

    Peter Thiel: yeah I'll throw some money at that.