NIMBY
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NIMBY is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between January 29, 2021 and November 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “One of the most exciting plans to solve the NIMBY crisis”; “he’s a NIMBY because I’m not part of their cool online social circle”; “Aaron Peskin, the worst NIMBY in San Francisco”. It most often appears alongside 80,000 Hours, Bill Gates, EA.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: January 29, 2021
- Last seen: November 05, 2024
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- 80,000 Hours (2 shared issues)
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- Bill Gates (2 shared issues)
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- EA (2 shared issues)
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- New York Times (2 shared issues)
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- Toby Ord (2 shared issues)
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- Trump (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- YIMBY (2 shared issues)
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- Aaron Peskin (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- AI alignment problem (1 shared issues)
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- AI Impacts (1 shared issues)
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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.
3. Housing: I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where digging up Robert Moses' corpse and appointing it Perpetual Planning Czar would be way better than what we have now. It turns out when you carefully seek democratic feedback on planning decisions, the feedback is usually "build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything", nothing ever gets built, and your city ends up in a terrible housing crisis with lots of people being broke, homeless, and miserable. One of the most exciting plans to solve the NIMBY crisis is SB50, a bill that ennumerates mechanical restrictions on how all zoning decisions have to go, and deliberately blocks affected neighbors from having any say in the process.
Inline links: build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything, SB50
I said awhile back that a lot of YIMBYs seem to define YIMBYism and NIMBYism in social terms, not political or policy terms - that they define allies not by who aligns with them in a policy sense but by who fights on their side online. On Reddit and Twitter some YIMBYs responded to that by calling me a NIMBY. In other words, despite my explicit policy beliefs, they think that I’m a NIMBY because I’m not part of their cool online social circle, which is a perfect illustration of the exact point I was making about how YIMBYism actually operates in practice. If I’m a YIMBY [sic] despite my policy preferences and because I’m considered outside of the YIMBY kaffeeklatsch, that means that it isn’t about policy and is about being a cool shitposter.
Inline links: awhile back
Thankfully, San Francisco has ranked-choice voting, so voters will be able to freely choose their favorite among this diverse group of candidates. I am not a praying man, but I would like to request that Aaron Peskin, the worst NIMBY in San Francisco, not get elected.