ultra-orthodox Jews
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ultra-orthodox Jews is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between February 21, 2024 and August 05, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Polygamous marriage is still not legal in the … cultures which appear capable of maintaining above-replacement fertility … like the Amish & ultra-orthodox Jews”; “The few sects that escaped decay - ultra-Orthodox Jews, Amish, the Taliban - seem neither clearly scaleable nor entirely desirable”; “Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Mormons: Get lots of people of the same religion together”. It most often appears alongside Amish, Christianity, 1880 - 1930 period.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: February 21, 2024
- Last seen: August 05, 2025
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Polyamory
- Against The Cultural Christianity Argument
- Should Strong Gods Bet On GDP?
Related Pages
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- Amish (3 shared issues)
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- Christianity (2 shared issues)
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- 1880 - 1930 period (1 shared issues)
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- 1890s (1 shared issues)
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- 2017 SSC survey (1 shared issues)
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- 20th century (1 shared issues)
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Polygamous marriage is still not legal in the . . . cultures which appear capable of maintaining above-replacement fertility . . . like the Amish & ultra-orthodox Jews.
Even if one could turn back the clock until the West was once again as Christian as it was in 1700, we would expect its Christianity to go the same way as 1700s Christianity - that is, to decay and end in modernism. The few sects that escaped decay - ultra-Orthodox Jews, Amish, the Taliban - seem neither clearly scaleable nor entirely desirable. At the very least, they suggest one would need a very different kind of Christianity than the West had in 1700s - one as strict, isolationist, and inward-looking as the Amish - to have a fighting chance.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Mormons: Get lots of people of the same religion together in one place - a timeless classic. Some of the ultra-est of the ultra-Orthodox are still more fluent in Yiddish than English, giving them near-invincibility from the mainstream. 9/10.