Astral Codex Ten

WWI

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WWI

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WWI is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 30, 2021 and July 20, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “attitude towards violence in the US in the years just before WWI”; “the vast majority of WWI veterans”; “collapse of human capital after WWI”. It most often appears alongside United States, US, WWII.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: April 30, 2021
  • Last seen: July 20, 2023

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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.

Your Book Review: Double Fold
April 30, 2021 · Original source
To simplify, a historian might approach these sources in two different ways. For some projects, she might consult a small number of predetermined sources – e. g. when analyzing the US response to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, she would check what the major newspapers wrote at the end of June 1914. In other cases, it is necessary to comb through a large body of sources, without knowing in advance which ones will be useful for one’s project – e. g. if our historian analyzed the attitude towards violence in the US in the years just before WWI, she would need to check out a large number of books, newspapers, and ephemera from the time. For such a systematic search, even trying out a bunch of keywords in an electronic database might be inferior to simply leafing through the volumes themselves in a large research library.
Highlights From The Comments On "Crazy Like Us"
July 21, 2021 · Original source
...ht malingerers, but clearly for a large number (including a friend of mine) this is real. They really are suffering from a set of symptoms consistent with PTSD. And yet, the vast majority of WWI veterans, Holocaust survivors, everyone who lived through WWII in Western Russia etc., a large fraction of people in the Middle Ages etc. experienced as bad or worse stuff and th...
Highlights From The Comments On British Economic Decline
July 20, 2023 · Original source
I’d be interested in seeing the “government decided to sit on industries in 1900” thesis fleshed out more. Also the “collapse of human capital after WWI”? Is this just saying lots of people died in WWI? If so, how come this didn’t happen in other deadly wars? For example, lots of Germans died in WWII, but Germany remained an economic powerhouse.