zeitgeist

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zeitgeist is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 02, 2022 and March 16, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “the zeitgeist has caught up to what I knew in 2015”; “But mostly it just seems to be the zeitgeist”. It most often appears alongside California, 1984, Amartya Sen.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: February 02, 2022
• Last seen: March 16, 2022

Appears In

• Why Do I Suck?
• Justice Creep

Related Pages

• • California (2 shared issues)
• • 1984 (1 shared issues)
• • Amartya Sen (1 shared issues)
• • Apollo Mojave (1 shared issues)
• • Aztec gods (1 shared issues)
• • barberpole model of fashion (1 shared issues)
• • Bari Weiss (1 shared issues)
• • Catiline (1 shared issues)
• • Charity (1 shared issues)
• • Cicero (1 shared issues)
• • climate justice (1 shared issues)
• • COP (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://app.zeitgeist.pm/
• • 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_revolution
• • https://what3words.com/guitars.record.caps
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-the-2024-Democratic-presidential-nomination
• • https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-the-2024-US-presidential-election
• • 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.

Why Do I Suck?

February 02, 2022 · Original source

You could argue this represents a failure on my part: the zeitgeist has caught up to what I knew in 2015, but I haven’t learned new things to keep me ahead of the zeitgeist. Seems plausible. Half of what I know, I know from the Less Wrong Sequences; the other half, from a basic medical school education. But nobody else explains things quite like Eliezer, and I’m sure as heck not going back to med school.

Justice Creep

March 16, 2022 · Original source

I can’t find clear evidence on Google Trends that use of these terms is increasing - I just feel like I’ve been hearing them more and more often. Nor can I find a simple story behind why - it’s got to have something to do with Rawls, but I can’t trace any of these back to specific Rawlsian philosophers. Some of it seems to have something to do with Amartya Sen, who I don’t know enough about to have an opinion. But mostly it just seems to be the zeitgeist.

Inline links: on Google Trends

Backlinks

• Concepts: Z
• Justice Creep
• Why Do I Suck?