populism

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populism is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 29, 2021 and August 05, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “a response to populism”; "" strong Gods ” of populism, nationalism, and religion”. It most often appears alongside 80,000 Hours, AI alignment problem, Amish.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: January 29, 2021
• Last seen: August 05, 2025

Appears In

• Contra Weyl On Technocracy
• Should Strong Gods Bet On GDP?

Related Pages

• • 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
• • AI alignment problem (1 shared issues)
• • Amish (1 shared issues)
• • Anand Giridharadas (1 shared issues)
• • Bay Area rationalist community (1 shared issues)
• • Bill Gates (1 shared issues)
• • Biosecurity And Pandemic Preparedness Program (1 shared issues)
• • Brasilia (1 shared issues)
• • Christian media (1 shared issues)
• • climate change (1 shared issues)
• • Continental philosophy (1 shared issues)
• • COVID (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://beverlypress.com/2024/05/uptick-in-graffiti-paints-a-bleak-picture/
• • https://biblehub.com/greek/3646.htm
• • https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs
• • https://www.amazon.com/Kakistocracy-Why-Populism-Ends-Disaster/dp/0063479990?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FlTbg42qILWg2vMbtq0efFZtduRJje_YEBTaNBp6iebs1en0unvJO1VYQv-PY_8BLSnlLOjJgR4GVH5dtzACqnM6588ro2BXm9BMII_SicIMVa_6dRqaCgSxrUtpPivxI3tyvDdo5zeewUsRaSH2UBOh4YWLgGNQAfAvRZ77bpwxSG6tC5GYZdYI9ngTGJ03MOzFxbNqNyFnzuYNv8FLwRvx8ZPgOAuilRXRWN_6UMdxJJ7aU4YRj3ncjE9H9I9VQjilHI2w4pO7vo-FXfIHKDUa1y7rycu5r3rDcSFhPQw.-J22j-sgJ1rDeBZ467Xm2hjZA149dbbuHoFNiqhwZxU&qid=1765891662&sr=8-2
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-the-2024-US-presidential-election
• • https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-3-what-we-have-and-whats-so/
• • https://x.com/AppSpartacus

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.

Contra Weyl On Technocracy

January 29, 2021 · Original source

I find Axes 1, 3, 4, and 5 kind of boring once we take the time to decompose them. Everybody's already argued the merits of government intervention vs. libertarianism, of populism vs. elitism, etc. Weyl seems to have a special interest in Axis 2 - mechanism vs. human judgment - and I think this is the most interesting potential point of disagreement.

I worry that Weyl is kind of cargo-culting a response to populism, a sort of "The masses hate science and reason and improving things, right? So maybe if we never do any of that stuff then they'll let us live". This hasn't been my experience of the masses. My experience has been they hate elites trying to lecture them on what to do, especially if justified in pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo that they can see through easily.

Should Strong Gods Bet On GDP?

August 05, 2025 · Original source

According to R. R. Reno, editor of the magazine First Things, the liberal project of the past three generations has sought to weaken the “strong Gods” of populism, nationalism, and religion that were held to be the drivers of the bloody conflicts of the early 20th century. Those gods are now returning, and are present in the politics of both the progressive left and far right—particularly the right, which is characterized today by demands for strong national identities or religious foundations for national communities.

Inline links: strong Gods

Backlinks

• Concepts: P
• Contra Weyl On Technocracy
• Should Strong Gods Bet On GDP?