[djur]

EY has made a point of saying that he has nothing to do with Moldbug, but ideologically there isn't much room between Moldbug-style techno-monarchism and the 'friendly AI' utopia.

I'm referring more generally to the "Dark Enlightenment" than just neoreactionaries. In that group I include pretty much any group focused on alternatives to liberal democracy, with carve-outs for Marxists and fascists. EY fits comfortably into that category (see his "Politics Is The Mind-Killer" tract).

[alexandros]

EY definitely fits comfortably in the gerrymandered definition of Dark Enlightenment that you just created, as does a vast amount of people, including the Pirate Party for instance. EY himself would agree with you on this.

Whether this is what most other people mean with the terms you just used, is another point entirely.