Gurometer: Curtis Yarvin

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Back once again with the dark art of Gurometry, we turn our sights to the bad boy of Silicon Valley—the mulleted maestro, the edgy eejit, Curtis Yarvin. A legend in his own mind, but how does he rank on the Gurosity scale? Join us as we dissect his essence across 11 factors, from his revolutionarily mundane and incoherent ideas to his dazzling absence of charisma. Tune in as we feed this 'dark enlightenment' thinker into the Gurometer and reveal his true colours.

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Curtis Yarvin: Gurometer

00:00 Introduction to Gurometry

02:27 Curtis Yarvin: The Man, The Myth, The Eejit

04:43 Galaxy Brainlessness

05:48 Cultishness

08:32 Anti-Establishmentarianism

09:55 Grievance Mongering

12:43 Self-Aggrandizement and Narcissism

13:30 Cassandra Complex

16:21 Revolutionary Theories

17:59 Pseudo-Profound Bullshit

19:43 Conspiracy Theories Galore

23:55 Moral Grandstanding

25:50 Gurometer Scores and Analysis

27:56 Bonus Point Attribution

34:03 Final Thoughts on Curtis Yarvin

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Welcome to Decoding the Guru's Gerometer edition, where we apply the science, the art of
0:37.2	gurometry, to a figure that we have recently covered in depth on the podcast,
0:43.7	done a deep decoding of. But here, we're trying to quantify our observations.
0:50.4	And we do that by assigning them values of one to five on 11 different criteria.
0:56.8	But before we do that, I must introduce that I am Chris Kavana, I'm an anthropologist of sorts
1:02.2	in Japan. None of that matters. What matters is the man across from me who is a senior
1:10.0	psychologist, highly respected in his field.
1:13.5	He's an Australian.
1:14.6	He's in America.
1:15.8	He's Matthew Brown.
1:17.0	There he is.
1:18.4	Welcome, Matthew.
1:20.9	I'm in the nation's capital, Chris.
1:23.3	Washington, D.C.
1:24.6	You were invited up.
1:26.3	You have your jacket.
1:27.4	You're ready to advise. They didn't. There was some confusion.C. You were invited up. You have your jacket. You're ready to advise.
1:29.3	They didn't.
1:30.1	There was some confusion at the security gates to the White House.
1:33.5	They didn't seem to have my name on the list.
1:36.1	It was uncomfortable, a bit of embarrassing.
1:38.5	There was some kind of, I was like, that's all right.
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