US politics
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US politics is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 06, 2022 and November 14, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “the two word description of US politics is “democracy, checks-and-balances””; “33 questions covering US politics”. It most often appears alongside AI, America, American consulate.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 06, 2022
- Last seen: November 14, 2025
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- American consulate (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten (1 shared issues)
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- Attorney General (1 shared issues)
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- authoritarianism (1 shared issues)
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- BBC (1 shared issues)
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- Beijing (1 shared issues)
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- Belt And Road Initiative (1 shared issues)
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- Bing (1 shared issues)
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- Bo Xilai (1 shared issues)
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- CCP (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.
If the two word description of US politics is “democracy, checks-and-balances”, then the two word description of Chinese politics is “oligarchy, patrons-and-clients”. If this seems exotic, it shouldn’t: it’s not much different from how the US fills unelected posts like “ambassador” and “White House staffer”. The Trump presidency put this into especially sharp relief, either because Trump did it more blatantly than usual or just because Trump’s clients were so obviously different from the normal Washington crowd. Consider eg the appointment of Jeff Sessions (among the first Congressmen to endorse Trump) as Attorney General.
ACX has been co-running a forecasting contest with Metaculus for the past few years. Lately the “co-running” has drifted towards them doing all the work and giving me credit, but that’s how I like it! Last year’s contest included more than 4500 forecasters predicting on 33 questions covering US politics, international events, AI, and more.
Inline links: Last year’s contest