Yugo
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Yugo is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 25, 2021 and June 12, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Point A is Yugo (or if you know a more modern example of a terrible car company, use that)”; “a Yugo is inferior to a Cadillac”. It most often appears alongside @VividVoid_, Amazon, Antifragile.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 25, 2021
- Last seen: June 12, 2024
Appears In
- More Antifragile, Diversity Libertarianism, And Corporate Censorship
- Nobody Can Make You Feel Genetically Inferior Without Your Consent
Related Pages
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- @VividVoid_ (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- Antifragile (1 shared issues)
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- Apple (1 shared issues)
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- Ayn Rand (1 shared issues)
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- BLM (1 shared issues)
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- BLM (1 shared issues)
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- Cadillac (1 shared issues)
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- cystic fibrosis (1 shared issues)
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- facebook (1 shared issues)
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- Ford (1 shared issues)
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- GM (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
What about Distribution 2? Now Point B is Tesla, making revolutionary new environmentally-friendly cars. In fact, let's say it's some super-Tesla that's even better than the real Tesla, plus their cars are affordable even for the poorest people. Point A is Yugo (or if you know a more modern example of a terrible car company, use that). Now which distribution would you rather have?
Distribution 2, definitely! You can buy the super-Tesla and be very happy, without ever worrying about Yugo. In fact, after a few years Yugo will go out of business, super-Tesla will dominate the market, and everyone will be very happy.
(Some people will object that nobody is “genetically inferior”, because “inferior” means “worse in every possible way”, and nobody is worse in all ways - maybe the person with cystic fibrosis has a gene for great memory or something. But first of all, if we come up with a contrived example where this isn’t true - eg identical twins who have exactly the same genes, except one has a somatic mutation causing cystic fibrosis - I’m still reluctant to say the mutated twin is “genetically inferior”. And second of all, this isn’t how we use the word “inferior” anywhere else - we might say that eg a Yugo is inferior to a Cadillac, even if the Yugo is better on some trivial dimension like having a slightly longer tire life.)