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Quillette3 mentions across 3 issues

Quillette is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 18, 2021 and May 07, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as "Quillette has a kind of snarky autopsy of the 'insect apocalypse' idea"; "9: Quillette has a kind of snarky autopsy of the “insect apocalypse” idea"; "Recent Quillette review of Bobos". It most often appears alongside California, China, facebook.

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Quillette

Mention count

3

Issue count

3

First seen

August 18, 2021

Last seen

May 07, 2024

Outbound links

• https://quillette.com/2022/11/10/the-bobos-at-22/
• https://quillette.com/2023/09/23/civil-rights-and-wrongs/
• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• https://www.richardhanania.com/p/against-ideaism?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

Issue trail

• Links For August August 18, 2021
• Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise December 01, 2022
• Highlights From The Comments On "The Origin Of Woke" May 07, 2024

Related pages

• California 2 shared issues
• China 2 shared issues
• facebook 2 shared issues
• Harvard 2 shared issues
• Yale 2 shared issues

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Links For August

August 18, 2021 · Original source

9: Quillette has a kind of snarky autopsy of the “insect apocalypse” idea, ie the concern that insect populations had been dropping precipitously over the past few years for some kind of environmental reason and maybe portended some larger collapse. Some more recent surveys have found about the same number of insects as ever, and I think the current consensus is that we are not generally running out of bugs. The article makes a pretty predictable case about “alarmism” and the media treating this irresponsibly. I’m prejudiced against listening, because I believed this was worth worrying about when the first round of studies came in, but this is still a great into-the-weeds description of a scientific controversy and how it eventually got (mostly) resolved.

Inline links: a kind of snarky autopsy of the “insect apocalypse” idea

Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise

December 01, 2022 · Original source

Recent Quillette review of Bobos, I noticed it halfway through writing this but tried not to let it influence my thinking too much

Inline links: Recent Quillette review of

Highlights From The Comments On "The Origin Of Woke"

May 07, 2024 · Original source

I’d also refer people to my piece that responded to some earlier reviews of the book here. Richard Hanania's Newsletter Against Ideaism Among the reviews of my book, I have noticed two main lines of criticism. First of all, there’s the argument that I didn’t explain everything. Oliver Traldi in Quillette asks “does the federal government require corporations to make rainbow-colored versions of their logos, or tweet in support of black trans women?” No, it certainly does not, although I … Read more 2 years ago · 81 likes · 39 comments · Richard Hanania

Inline links: Richard Hanania's Newsletter Against Ideaism Among the reviews of my book, I have noticed two main lines of criticism. First of all, there’s the argument that I didn’t explain everything. Oliver Traldi in Quillette asks “does the federal government require corporations to make rainbow-colored versions of their logos, or tweet in support of black trans women?” No, it certainly does not, although I … Read more 2 years ago · 81 likes · 39 comments · Richard Hanania

Oliver Traldi's review (https://quillette.com/2023/09/23/civil-rights-and-wrongs/) points some more misrepresented anecdotes . For example:

Inline links: https://quillette.com/2023/09/23/civil-rights-and-wrongs/

Quanta2 mentions across 2 issues

Quanta is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 20, 2021 and October 20, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "Quanta: What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones"; "see eg this Quanta article". It most often appears alongside 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, AI X-Risk Research Podcast, Alignment Research Center.

Article page

Quanta

Mention count

2

Issue count

2

First seen

May 20, 2021

Last seen

October 20, 2022

Outbound links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

Issue trail

• Links For May May 20, 2021
• Book Review: Rhythms Of The Brain October 20, 2022

Related pages

• 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel 1 shared issues
• AI X-Risk Research Podcast 1 shared issues
• Alignment Research Center 1 shared issues
• Alpha 1 shared issues
• Amor 1 shared issues

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Links For May

May 20, 2021 · Original source

21: Quanta: What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones

Inline links: What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones

Book Review: Rhythms Of The Brain

October 20, 2022 · Original source

(source) Pink noise is apparently omnipresent in natural systems for kind of mysterious reasons - see eg this Quanta article, which says pink noise “is found in all kinds of electrical noise, stock market activity, biological rhythms, and even pieces of music — and no one [knows] why.” Buzsaki is pretty excited about this, and suggests that human-produced music has a pink noise spectrum in order to complement the pink noise spectrum of the brain; other sources argue that literal pink noise (for example, from a fan) has healing properties compared to white noise or silence. Did you know: White noise was named because its wave spectrum resembles white light. Pink noise was named because its wave spectrum resembles pink light. Brown noise was named after Robert Brown, who helped discover it. This is one of my least favorite facts. Lots of scientists seem tempted to wax rhapsodic about the importance of pink noise; the exact reasons were one of the parts of the book I didn’t quite understand. For our purposes, it just matters that this is the overall wave spectrum of the brain. How is this spectrum formed? This was one of the questions the book didn’t resolve for me. Are there a few hundred neurons here oscillating at 1 hertz, a few thousand there oscillating at 1.1 hertz, and so on, until we have enumerated thousands of different neuronal populations with very slightly different rhythms, and when you add them together you get the nice smooth pink noise curve? And then after a second, they all spontaneously rearrange themselves and there are a different few thousand populations and rhythms, still on the aggregate summing to pink noise? Sometimes it seems like the book is pointing to a model like this. Other times it seems like there are approximately five different rhythms in the brain, each with a name like “hippocampal theta” or “visual alpha”, and each usually involving a whole brain macroregion (eg the visual cortex). I still haven’t figured out how to reconcile these two perspectives - maybe the major rhythms are broad categories, and there are lots of subrhythms within them? In any case, these 1/n rhythms form the “background noise” of the brain. They exist at all times, whether you’re thinking hard, or in a sensory deprivation tank, or asleep (although each of those states will change which rhythm predominates). When neuroscientists want to study how the brain reacts to something, they usually measure the brain, do the thing, and subtract the pink noise spectrum from the result - again, on the grounds that it’s “background noise” which is disguising the effect of whatever their interesting intervention was. Buzsaki questions this practice and presents evidence that the state of the “background noise” matters a lot - this is the “randomness” that explains why the same person will respond to the same intervention different ways at different times. For example, he presents evidence showing that if you give someone a near-threshold stimulus (for example, a flashing light just barely bright enough that someone can detect it 50% of the time), then whether they detect it or not will depend on whether it occurs at the peak or the trough of the brain waves in the relevant area. Are Brain Waves Useful? Brain waves are kind of unavoidable. Rhythms presents a thought experiment about trying to design a brain that doesn’t fall into any natural oscillatory patterns. It’s pretty hard! Even if brain waves were useless, we would probably have them just because they’re too much trouble to avoid. Still, evolution tends to make virtues out of necessity, and Buzsaki thinks brain waves matter a lot. Again without claiming to have fully understood this, here are four things that brain waves might do: Brain waves provide “synchrony”, allowing a smallest granular unit of time and essentially converting life into a turn-based game. Suppose that a snake bites your foot. You see the snake with your eyes, and also get a pain signal from your foot. The pain signal has to travel a long way, nerves have conduction delays, and so it reaches your brain well after the visual signal. But your brain needs to be able to combine the visual and pain signals into a single story (snake bit my foot). Brain waves separate experience into short granular “turns” so that the brain can attribute both stimuli to the same “turn” and connect them. It’s also possible I’m totally misunderstanding this part, sorry.

Inline links: source, other sources argue, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0bfI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75286799-6c21-4dda-be19-12e4b2410dbc_389x369.png

Qeios1 mentions across 1 issues

Qeios is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between July 03, 2025 and July 03, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as "Qeios is not a real journal in the usual sense". It most often appears alongside 23andme, @alextisyoung, Aborigines.

Reference entry

Qeios

Mention count

1

Issue count

1

First seen

July 03, 2025

Last seen

July 03, 2025

Outbound links

• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families

Issue trail

• Highlights From The Comments On Missing Heritability July 03, 2025

Related pages

• 23andme 1 shared issues
• @alextisyoung 1 shared issues
• Aborigines 1 shared issues
• ACE twin model 1 shared issues
• ACX 1 shared issues

Source context

Highlights From The Comments On Missing Heritability

July 03, 2025 · Original source

Gusev later says he’s specifically referring to figures like this one from Davide Piffer (from here; note that although the article looks nice and says “peer-approved” at the top, Qeios is not a real journal in the usual sense):

Inline links: here

Qualia Computing1 mentions across 1 issues

Qualia Computing is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between November 20, 2022 and November 20, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "this Qualia Computing blog post". It most often appears alongside ACX Tokyo meetup group, ACX unofficial subreddit, AI Safety.

Reference entry

Qualia Computing

Mention count

1

Issue count

1

First seen

November 20, 2022

Last seen

November 20, 2022

Outbound links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• https://abc7news.com/post/graffiti-in-san-francisco-tagging-vandalism-street/13801629/
• https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-sadly-porn/comment/5114457
• https://qualiacomputing.com/2022/10/27/on-rhythms-of-the-brain-jhanas-local-field-potentials-and-electromagnetic-theories-of-consciousness/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• https://what3words.com/guitars.record.caps
• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• https://www.astralcodexten.com/publish/post/134180409
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

Issue trail

• Open Thread 251 November 20, 2022

Related pages

• ACX Tokyo meetup group 1 shared issues
• ACX unofficial subreddit 1 shared issues
• AI Safety 1 shared issues
• AI-based analytics methods 1 shared issues
• Astralcodexten Com 1 shared issues

Source context

Open Thread 251

November 20, 2022 · Original source

3: In my Highlights On The Comments For Rhythms Of The Brain post, I meant to include this Qualia Computing blog post, but forgot; sorry.

Inline links: Highlights On The Comments For Rhythms Of The Brain, this Qualia Computing blog post

Quartus Supra1 mentions across 1 issues

Quartus Supra is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between October 22, 2025 and October 22, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as ""Pope Pius IX in the encyclical Quartus Supra"". It most often appears alongside 10th century, 19th Century, A16Z.

Reference entry

Quartus Supra

Mention count

1

Issue count

1

First seen

October 22, 2025

Last seen

October 22, 2025

Outbound links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• https://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/report31.pdf
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

Issue trail

• My Antichrist Lecture October 22, 2025

Related pages

• 10th century 1 shared issues
• 19th Century 1 shared issues
• A16Z 1 shared issues
• Acts 4:4 1 shared issues
• AI race 1 shared issues

Source context

My Antichrist Lecture

October 22, 2025 · Original source

But which venture capitalist? Plenty of people have claimed to know secret ways to identify the Antichrist, but surely the best-credentialled expert here is the Pope, and according to Wikipedia: Pope Pius IX in the encyclical Quartus Supra, quoting Cyprian, said Satan disguises the Antichrist with the title of Christ. What is the title of Christ? In the Bible, we find two common titles: “The Son of Man” (Matthew 12:32, Luke 12:8, John 1:51)

Inline links: according to Wikipedia

Quests And Requests1 mentions across 1 issues

Quests And Requests is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between November 10, 2023 and November 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as "Thanks to everyone who commented on Quests And Requests". It most often appears alongside #EEGManyLabs, 23andme, @freeshreeda.

Reference entry

Quests And Requests

Mention count

1

Issue count

1

First seen

November 10, 2023

Last seen

November 10, 2023

Outbound links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
• https://ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/is-tan-et-al-the-end-of-social-science/comment/106431494
• https://newrepublic.com/post/173668/republicans-declare-banning-universal-free-school-meals-2024-priority
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/quests-and-requests
• https://www.newsweek.com/javier-milei-rent-control-argentina-us-election-kamala-harris-housing-affordability-1938127
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

Issue trail

• Followup: Quests And Requests November 10, 2023

Related pages

• #EEGManyLabs 1 shared issues
• 23andme 1 shared issues
• @freeshreeda 1 shared issues
• @surcomplicated 1 shared issues
• Alain Daigle 1 shared issues

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Followup: Quests And Requests

November 10, 2023 · Original source

Thanks to everyone who commented on Quests And Requests.

Inline links: Quests And Requests

Quote Investigator1 mentions across 1 issues

Quote Investigator is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between July 29, 2022 and July 29, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "Quote Investigator: who invented the idea of optimists seeing a glass as half-full?". It most often appears alongside /r/forcedbreeding, /r/forcedbreeding, Adrian D’Souza.

Reference entry

Quote Investigator

Mention count

1

Issue count

1

First seen

July 29, 2022

Last seen

July 29, 2022

Outbound links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• https://abc7news.com/post/graffiti-in-san-francisco-tagging-vandalism-street/13801629/
• https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• https://what3words.com/guitars.record.caps
• https://www.amazon.com/Closing-American-Mind-Education-Impoverished/dp/1451683200/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SAPRLAFUD8ML&keywords=Closing+of+the+American+Mind&qid=1680632698&s=books&sprefix=closing+of+the+american+mind%2Cstripbooks%2C221&sr=1-1
• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html
• https://www.statista.com/chart/21581/public-opinion-on-easing-stay-at-home-restrictions/
• https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1867335298491068769

Issue trail

• Links For July July 29, 2022

Related pages

• forcedbreeding 1 shared issues
• forcedbreeding 1 shared issues
• Adrian D’Souza 1 shared issues
• AutoRegex 1 shared issues
• Bamiyan Buddhas 1 shared issues

Source context

Links For July

July 29, 2022 · Original source

29: Quote Investigator: who invented the idea of optimists seeing a glass as half-full?

Inline links: who invented the idea of optimists seeing a glass as half-full?

QZ1 mentions across 1 issues

QZ is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between June 01, 2021 and June 01, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as ""QZ says 'between $4 and 13 per metric ton'"". It most often appears alongside Stop Yog Sothoth Fund, Terrapass, Yog Sothoth.

Reference entry

QZ

Mention count

1

Issue count

1

First seen

June 01, 2021

Last seen

June 01, 2021

Outbound links

• https://www.lesswrong.com/groups/NyFGBvrXj6i7NQzjv
• https://www.lesswrong.com/groups/i5vLw9xnG9iwXNQZZ
• https://www.lesswrong.com/groups/nSoF5ntooah7f4qzj

Issue trail

• Moral Costs Of Chicken Vs. Beef June 01, 2021

Related pages

• Stop Yog Sothoth Fund 1 shared issues
• Terrapass 1 shared issues
• Yog Sothoth 1 shared issues

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Moral Costs Of Chicken Vs. Beef

June 01, 2021 · Original source

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• Followup: Quests And Requests
• Highlights From The Comments On Missing Heritability
• Links For July
• Moral Costs Of Chicken Vs. Beef
• My Antichrist Lecture
• Open Thread 251
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• Organizations: T
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