Standard Model
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Standard Model is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 14, 2021 and February 21, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “people trying to maintain the Standard Model”; “structure of the Standard Model”. It most often appears alongside /r/slatestarcodex, ACX, Adam Sandler.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 14, 2021
- Last seen: February 21, 2025
Appears In
- Contra Smith On Jewish Selective Immigration
- Highlights From The Comments On Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe
Related Pages
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- slatestarcodex (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Sandler (1 shared issues)
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- Adrian (1 shared issues)
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- Albert Einstein (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Anthropic principle (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotle (1 shared issues)
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- Arkansas (1 shared issues)
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- Ashkenazi Jews (1 shared issues)
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- Asian (1 shared issues)
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- Austro-Hungarian Empire (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.
Why? The Standard Model of American Ethnicity says that there are whites and non-whites, whites are rich, non-whites are poor, and this is because of structural racism where whites are oppressing everyone else. Reality gets beaten and twisted until it can be shoehorned into this model - gifted programs that are 80% Asian "perpetuate whiteness", etc. The reality is that every ethnic group is different from every other ethnic group, including in socioeconomic status, with white people usually somewhere around the middle.
(I realize that the people trying to maintain the Standard Model are also trying to make Nazism less attractive, by denying the existence of successful minorities that people could get angry at and try to persecute. I think this was a potentially reasonable strategy back when you could argue it would distract people away from getting too fired up about racial resentment. But at some point the cost of enshrining as dogma that all high-achieving ethnic groups are oppressors outweighs than the benefit of “they haven’t applied this to us just yet.”)
1970: why don't protons decay? You dummy, it's because otherwise the Earth would have disintegrated by now! But actually it was because baryon number conservation is enforced by the structure of the Standard Model.