I think Curtis Yarvin's biggest flaw is that he gets carried away. (He shares that flaw with some other guru personalities, like Eliezer Yudkowsky.) He'll write a big post to make programmers less nervous about his presence at LambdaConf, and he'll stick "BTW nerds ruined Detroit" right in the middle of that post, just because he can't resist a tangent. Inviting him to speak was a noble choice, but I feel sympathy for the conference organizers who are probably praying that he doesn't do the same on stage. It's good that he's promising to speak only about programming. I wish this post had followed the same guideline.