I recognize the voice of this anon and you’re actually pretty good at recognizing and invoking my insecurities as a spur to action so uh nice

Yeah, I should be more famous and more people should be under my influence agree with you there; my plan to that end was to write good stuff and put it where people could see, which brought me all the fame and influence I have so far.

Which isn’t nothing; mere hundreds though it might be I’m upstream from people a lot are downstream of and more of the kind of people with discriminating taste find me through them all the time

Maybe the key is networking and it’s not like that’s never paid off for me before; I found a circle of fellows in the LessWrong diaspora and got Scott Alexander occasionally showing my stuff around because I impressed nydwracu who talked me up to them

I don’t live in Brooklyn or London though and I don’t plan to; I don’t play to the vanity of my inferiors and I don’t plan to; I don’t tweet and though I’m sure I could raise my profile with a well-plotted campaign of leaving sick burns in the right people’s mentions Twitter is terrible, the things people make of themselves to get attention there are terrible, it’s mostly just a special case of “playing to the vanity of your inferiors” anyway

Maybe I should put out some longform, at the least I could package up some of my best tumblr work and add a few fresh pieces and… what? e-publish and buy ads on 4chan?