Astral Codex Ten

Publications: Z

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Publications: Z

Substacks, magazines, zines, journals, and publications referenced in the archive. This section collects the Z slice of the category index.

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Zero HP Lovecraft1 mentions across 1 issues

Zero HP Lovecraft is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between February 16, 2022 and February 16, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "other reviews, which I mostly avoided reading until done with mine, to prevent information cascades: Resident Contrarian , Zero HP Lovecraft". It most often appears alongside Abercrombie & Fitch, Athenian democracy, Athenians.

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Zero HP Lovecraft
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1
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1
First seen
February 16, 2022
Last seen
February 16, 2022
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Book Review: Sadly, Porn
February 16, 2022 · Original source
[other reviews, which I mostly avoided reading until done with mine, to prevent information cascades: Resident Contrarian, Zero HP Lovecraft]
Inline links: Resident Contrarian, Zero HP Lovecraft
Zoobooks1 mentions across 1 issues

Zoobooks is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between April 22, 2021 and April 22, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as "it reminded me of poring over Zoobooks and the like when I was a kid". It most often appears alongside ACX, African Gray Parrots, Animal Cognition.

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Zoobooks
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1
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1
First seen
April 22, 2021
Last seen
April 22, 2021
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Your Book Review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
April 22, 2021 · Original source
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are is ostensibly a book about a subfield of ethology - animal cognition. It turns out to actually be about a lot more things than that, as "animal cognition" and the history of its study touches on a lot of different scientific fields and the various approaches, methodologies, and ideologies they've had in the past. Before we jump into talking about how the book is useful and why we might care about it in other fields, I want to say right up front that Are We Smart Enough is first and foremost a book about the joy of discovering surprising and interesting things in the natural world, and it reminded me of poring over Zoobooks and the like when I was a kid. Are you looking for a well-written and enjoyable popular science book that will consistently have you going "wow, that's really cool!"? If so, you don't really need the rest of this review, but there's a lot of good stuff in there to unpack.
Zounds1 mentions across 1 issues

Zounds is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 16, 2022 and March 16, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as "Thanks to everyone who commented on Zounds!". It most often appears alongside 5α-reductase inhibitor, A Mindful Monkey, ALLO.

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Zounds
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1
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1
First seen
March 16, 2022
Last seen
March 16, 2022
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Highlights From The Comments On Zulresso
March 16, 2022 · Original source
Thanks to everyone who commented on Zounds! It’s Zulresso and Zuranolone and on the followup Progesterone Megadoses Might Be A Cheap Zulresso Substitute. I’m constantly impressed by the expertise of commenters here and on how much better the biomedical comment threads are compared to some of the others. Among the things I learned:
Inline links: Zounds! It’s Zulresso and Zuranolone, Progesterone Megadoses Might Be A Cheap Zulresso Substitute
— Metacelsus (who writes the blog De Novo) doubts the price estimates I posted:
Inline links: Metacelsus, De Novo
— Douglas (who writes the blog A Mindful Monkey) clears up some mechanism details I missed:
Inline links: Douglas, A Mindful Monkey
Zuk et al. 20121 mentions across 1 issues

Zuk et al. 2012 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 "If you read the wikipedia article on epistasis, or Zuk et al. 2012". It most often appears alongside 23andme, @alextisyoung, Aborigines.

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Zuk et al. 2012
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1
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1
First seen
July 03, 2025
Last seen
July 03, 2025
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Highlights From The Comments On Missing Heritability
July 03, 2025 · Original source
…Importantly, I think the nature of non-additive genetics is widely misunderstood. If you read the wikipedia article on epistasis, or Zuk et al. 2012, or any other discussion I’ve seen, you’ll get the idea that non-additive genetic effects happen for reasons that are very “organic”—things like genes for two different mutations of the same protein complex, or genes for two enzymes involved in the same metabolic pathway.
But that’s a very different mental image from things like multiple genes affecting the same protein complex, or the Zuk et al. 2012 “limiting pathway model”. In particular, given a gene × gene interaction, you can’t, even in principle, peer into a cell with a microscope, and tell whether the two genes are “interacting” or not. In that last example above, the thrill-seeking-related genes really don’t “interact” with the bone-strength-related genes—at least, not in the normal, intuitive sense of the word “interact”. Indeed, those two genes might never be expressed at the same time in the same cell….
Zuozhuan1 mentions across 1 issues

Zuozhuan is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between September 01, 2023 and September 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as "This is the world of the Spring and Autumn Annals, and the Zuozhuan"; "the Zuozhuan is the flesh on the Annals’ bare bones"; "the Zuozhuan is undeniably the most comprehensive written source on its era that we have". It most often appears alongside 536 BC, ACX, Ai Jiang.

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Zuozhuan
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1
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1
First seen
September 01, 2023
Last seen
September 01, 2023
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Your Book Review: Zuozhuan
September 01, 2023 · Original source
This is the world of the Spring and Autumn Annals, and the Zuozhuan.
Who is Zhu Yifu? Who’s Duan? What’s all this about “overcoming”? Where does the moral deliberation come in? This canon badly needs meta, and the most notable of the ancient commentaries written for the Spring and Autumn Annals is the Zuozhuan. Ten times as long as the text it’s for, the Zuozhuan is the flesh on the Annals’ bare bones, one of the foundational works of ancient Chinese literature and history-writing in its own right.
…you have the Zuozhuan’s account of the year, mostly composed of elaborations upon the above entries, such as:
Zvi's weekly newsletters1 mentions across 1 issues

Zvi's weekly newsletters is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between June 01, 2023 and June 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as "Zvi’s weekly newsletters (you might remember his old COVID newsletters) are very good". It most often appears alongside 2006 IAU vote, 9/11, Abacha.

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1
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1
First seen
June 01, 2023
Last seen
June 01, 2023
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Links For May 2023
June 01, 2023 · Original source
...!), and Steven Byrnes on how to reason about AI danger if this is true . - Even without a “foom” event, “slow” takeoff can be very fast! - If you want even more AI news, Zvi’s weekly newsletters (you might remember his old COVID newsletters) are very good. I like this one in particular because the URL collapses the title to “AI - 8 people can do reasonable things”, which is a good accidental summary of where we are right...