Astral Codex Ten

Events: Y

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Events: Y

Named parties, readings, programs, and event series. This section collects the Y slice of the category index.

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Yom Kippur2 mentions across 2 issues

Yom Kippur is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 28, 2022 and October 17, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as "the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur)"; "fast for us on Yom Kippur". It most often appears alongside effective altruism, FTX, Nate Silver.

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Yom Kippur
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2
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2
First seen
December 28, 2022
Last seen
October 17, 2024
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Links For December 2022
December 28, 2022 · Original source
15: The High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) are two of the biggest holidays of the Jewish year, about a week apart. Many Jews only go to synagogue during the High Holy Days, just like so-called “Christmas-and-Easter Christians”, and synagogues get a lot of their yearly dues from Jews who want to make sure they have a seat at a High Holy Day service. During the early 20th century, entrepreneurs founded “mushroom synagogues”, so-named for their tendency to spring up around High Holy Days and then disappear for the rest of the year; the war between regular and mushroom synagogues got ugly and sometimes involved state legislation.
Inline links: “mushroom synagogues”
Book Review: Deep Utopia
October 17, 2024 · Original source
Even stricter! What if you need to make a non-gimmicky positive difference that isn’t downstream of someone else’s decision to artificially provide you with purpose? The best the book can do is suggest religious or pseudo-religious rituals. We can’t build robots to go to church for us on Easter or fast for us on Yom Kippur, nor to live decent lives free of sin. If you’re an atheist, maybe you can get a similar effect by honoring your ancestors - perhaps your hard-working grandmother wanted to be remembered by her descendants, and only you can fulfill her last request.
YIMBY parties1 mentions across 1 issues

YIMBY parties is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between August 17, 2023 and August 17, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as "The YIMBY parties are always too crowded". It most often appears alongside Alexander the Great, Amad, Amazon Echo.

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YIMBY parties
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1
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August 17, 2023
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August 17, 2023
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Bride Of Bay Area House Party
August 17, 2023 · Original source
You spent the evening agonizing over which Bay Area House Party to attend. The YIMBY parties are always too crowded. VC parties were a low-interest-rate phenomenon. You’ve heard too many rumors of consent violations at the e/acc parties - they don’t know when to stop. And last time you went to a crypto bro party, you didn’t even have anything to drink, and somehow you still woke up the next morning lying in a gutter, minus your wallet and clothes. You finally decide on a Progress Studies party - the last one was kind of dull, but you hear they’re getting better.
“And housing advocacy, right?” interrupts a newcomer to the conversation. He is dressed in all black, and his eyes are black instead of having normal iris and sclera. You, Max, and Ramchandra groan. A member of the Urbanist Coven! “Shouldn’t you be over at the YIMBY party?” Max asks.
“Yes. I just regret I can’t be at the YIMBY party to deliver my report to the rest of the coven.”
YIMBY party1 mentions across 1 issues

YIMBY party is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between August 17, 2023 and August 17, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as "Shouldn’t you be over at the YIMBY party?"; "“Shouldn’t you be over at the YIMBY party?” Max asks". It most often appears alongside Alexander the Great, Amad, Amazon Echo.

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YIMBY party
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August 17, 2023
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August 17, 2023
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Bride Of Bay Area House Party
August 17, 2023 · Original source
“And housing advocacy, right?” interrupts a newcomer to the conversation. He is dressed in all black, and his eyes are black instead of having normal iris and sclera. You, Max, and Ramchandra groan. A member of the Urbanist Coven! “Shouldn’t you be over at the YIMBY party?” Max asks.
“Yes. I just regret I can’t be at the YIMBY party to deliver my report to the rest of the coven.”
Yom Kippur War1 mentions across 1 issues

Yom Kippur War is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between September 06, 2022 and September 06, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "Did you know: the Yom Kippur War started on October 6". It most often appears alongside 80,000 Hours, @itsahousingtrap, Ajeya Cotra.

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Yom Kippur War
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1
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1
First seen
September 06, 2022
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September 06, 2022
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Links For September 2022
September 06, 2022 · Original source
39: Did you know: the Yom Kippur War started on October 6 (Ramadan 10 in the Arabic calendar). Egypt has commemorated it with two cities called Sixth Of October and Tenth of Ramadan, both with populations in the hundreds of thousands. This makes me wonder how Egypt thinks of the war: I had always learned it was a spectacular Israeli victory / Arab defeat, but countries don’t normally name that many cities after wars that they lost.
Inline links: Sixth Of October, Tenth of Ramadan
You Are Still Crying Wolf1 mentions across 1 issues

You Are Still Crying Wolf is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between July 26, 2025 and July 26, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as "a strong candidate for the most toxic comments section ever is You Are Still Crying Wolf". It most often appears alongside 4chan, ACX, ACX.

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1
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July 26, 2025
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July 26, 2025
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Your Review: The Astral Codex Ten Commentariat (“Why Do We Suck?”)
July 26, 2025 · Original source
The real world intruded on the Commentariat’s hyperfixations In The Rise and Fall of Online Culture Wars, Scott notes that online feminism was absolutely everywhere from around 2014-16 and then just sort of… disappeared one day. This has some parallels (down to the timing) for engagement with the SSC Comments section – from 2014-16 engagement with the comments section seems to be on an unstoppable upward trajectory and then in April 2016 it just sort of… reverses. I have already mentioned that April 2016 marked an extreme high-water mark for usage of the term ‘SJW’. From what I can see, there’s no particular reason for this specific to SSC – April 2016 has two threads with significant usage of the token, but they are completely random threads – OT47 and Links 4/16 (Links 4/16 does have a link about social justice warriors so that makes some sense, but OT47 doesn’t, so my conclusion is that there is just something that was in the water around that time). This theory says that the Commentariat really liked talking about SJWs, and when they were prevented from talking about SJWs they just stopped engaging with the blog altogether. The problem with this theory is that there is nobody really preventing the Commentariat from talking about SJWs to their heart’s content after April 2016. In February 2016, Scott requested that all Culture Wars topics be quarantined to a single Culture Wars thread on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit (link). This seems like the most common-sense explanation for the observation that the comment section changes dramatically around this time - of course engagement and usage of the term ‘SJW’ falls off when usage of the term ‘SJW’ is quarantined to a single thread in an offsite forum. However, the major problem with this explanation is that it doesn’t fit the data – comment section engagement increases throughout February – April 2016 and only starts dropping in May, when as far as I can see there is no specific events occurring in the r/slatestarcodex subreddit to explain it. Also, in February 2019 the Culture Wars Thread was euthanised (link) but there is no corresponding uptick in comment section engagement as people migrated back from the Culture Wars thread to the SSC comments section. I thought perhaps discussion of SJWs might have been drowned out by discussions of something else, such that it became passé to be discussing SJWs when there was some other Culture Wars issue at stake. This would mirror what happened to online feminism, where it became passé to discuss women specifically and more trendy to discuss intersectionality / race issues from about 2016 onwards. The obvious candidate for this switch is Trump and the rise of the MAGA movement. March 2016 was probably the last period where you could kind of convince yourself Trump wasn’t going to win the Republican Primary. In March 2016 it was just about possible Cruz could have won, but by April 2016 Trump was winning every Primary with decisive majorities. If you are slightly younger you may not have been online during that period, but I can attest that it was completely crazy commenting in political spaces around that time; I’d argue a strong candidate for the most toxic comments section ever is You Are Still Crying Wolf, where Scott offers some extremely guarded non-criticism of Trump, arguing that he was not unusually racist by American Presidential standards. This didn’t make my database because Scott nuked the comments for being too toxic, so we will never know mathematically how bad the comments were, but anecdotally they were pretty standout – closer to 4Chan than ACX in places. The evidence for this hypothesis is kind of mixed – if you abandon all sense of statistical appropriateness you can freehand draw a line which kind of looks like the decline in ‘SJW’ tokens is mirrored by a rise in ‘Trump’ tokens when you normalise the two terms, but you can also do that with any other word that was trending in April 2016, like ‘Snowden’ or ‘Wikileaks’ (or ‘Harambe’ as per the graph below). Looking just at the data it isn’t really a very impressive correlation to draw. I appreciate it is so boring to conclude that Trump is the Great Satan for the millionth time. However, I do think if you add in contextual factors there is reason to be cautiously supportive of a ‘Donald Trump killed the AXC Comments Section’ theory: The volume of ‘Trump’ comments is absolutely massive - around 11% of all comments were about Trump in January 2017, which is greater than comments about Russia during their invasion of Ukraine (10%) and comments about COVID during the first few months of the pandemic (7%). Even a topic like SJWs, which the Commentariat really liked talking about, could only manage a peak of around 1.2% (although eg ‘gender’ peaks at 5.5% and ‘feminis*’ peaks at 3.7%). Concepts like ‘Harambe’ and ‘Wikileaks’ barely register on this scale, at 0.3% and 0.5% peaks respectively. So even though the shape of the two curves looks similar when you normalise them, it is reasonable to believe Trump could have had a significant enough impact on the comments section to dislodge forum norms, in a way Harambe did not.
Inline links: The Rise and Fall of Online Culture Wars, OT47, Links 4/16, link, link, You Are Still Crying Wolf, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6J8h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faea86860-bafc-41c3-94f3-76f3b7424e18_863x331.png
Yuanhua scandal1 mentions across 1 issues

Yuanhua scandal is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between April 13, 2022 and April 13, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "explain aspects of the Yuanhua scandal". It most often appears alongside 16th Central Committee, Alaska, Aristotle.

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Yuanhua scandal
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April 13, 2022
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April 13, 2022
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Biography of Jason Shea, 44th US President
April 13, 2022 · Original source
In Fujian, Xi made efforts to attract investment from Taiwan and to strengthen the private sector of the provincial economy. In February 2000, he and then-provincial Party Secretary Chen Mingyi were called before the top members of Central Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP – General Secretary Jiang Zemin, Premier Zhu Rongji, Vice-President Hu Jintao and Discipline Inspection Secretary Wei Jianxing – to explain aspects of the Yuanhua scandal. In 2002, Xi left Fujian and took up leading political positions in neighbouring Zhejiang. He eventually took over as provincial Party Committee Secretary after several months as acting governor, occupying a top provincial office for the first time in his career. In 2002, he was elected a full member of the 16th Central Committee, marking his ascension to the national stage.
Yudkowsky-Christiano Debate1 mentions across 1 issues

Yudkowsky-Christiano Debate is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between April 04, 2022 and April 04, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "The Actual Yudkowsky-Christiano Debate, Finally". It most often appears alongside 2013, Agricultural Revolution, AI.

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April 04, 2022
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April 04, 2022
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Yudkowsky Contra Christiano On AI Takeoff Speeds
April 04, 2022 · Original source
Eliezer points out there have been some cliffs before. But supposing that in the past thousand miles, there have been three previous cliffs, “there is a huge cliff bigger than any you’ve ever seen just one mile beyond your sight” still seems to be non-default and require quite a bit of evidence. The Actual Yudkowsky-Christiano Debate, Finally All of this was just preliminaries, Eliezer and Paul taking potshots at each other from a distance. Someone finally got them together in the same [chat] room and forced them to talk directly.
Yugoslavia Humanitarian Intervention1 mentions across 1 issues

Yugoslavia Humanitarian Intervention is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between June 24, 2022 and June 24, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "Yugoslavia Humanitarian Intervention (1995, 1999): UNSC sanctioned NATO’s intervention". It most often appears alongside 501(c)(3), 80,000 Hours, 9/11.

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1
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June 24, 2022
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June 24, 2022
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Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
June 24, 2022 · Original source
Yugoslavia Humanitarian Intervention (1995, 1999): UNSC sanctioned NATO’s intervention against ethnic Serbs’ massacre of ethnic Bosnians in Srebrenica and Sarajevo in 1995, but not the so-called “illegal but legitimate” 1999 bombing of Kosovo to stop the Serbs’ ethnic cleansing of Bosnians as NATO would have been vetoed by Russia and China.