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i can't find the "pure intentions" quote. as for "good intentions", his opinion of them is very different — and he's not concerned with intentions as much as the systems that produce them and the effects they produce. if i understood deleuze i think this is the place where i would start spewing french jargon, but i do not.

so:
It is good in intention and malicious in effect.

This combination is very common, because it effectively allows evil conspiracies to form without anyone realizing that they're evil.

The key is that it's adaptive. It's not that it succeeds despite the bad results of its good intentions. It succeeds because of the bad results of its good intentions.

sounds pretty consequentialist to me — and moldbug, coming from within the liberal tradition, says the way to avoid malice with good intentions is to make sure the incentive structures are such that the expected intentions produce good consequences. (as opposed to educating an aristocracy for virtue or whatever other solutions may be advocated.)

what i was getting at with marxists is that the personality precedes the ideology.

as for nietzsche, that doesn't sound like what i remember but i'll have to reread