Dor Yeshorim
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Dor Yeshorim is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 24, 2021 and May 15, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “short-term through voluntary community-based efforts like Dor Yeshorim”; “my favorite is Dor Yeshorim, the group that screens for the genetic mutations common in Ashkenazi Jews”. It most often appears alongside Nobel sperm bank, 60 Minutes, Adam Mastroianni.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 24, 2021
- Last seen: May 15, 2023
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- Nobel sperm bank (2 shared issues)
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- 60 Minutes (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Mastroianni (1 shared issues)
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- Adraste (1 shared issues)
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- Ashkenazi Jews (1 shared issues)
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- August Derleth (1 shared issues)
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- Balaji Srinivasan (1 shared issues)
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- Beroe (1 shared issues)
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- BETA-MEALR (1 shared issues)
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- Bihar (1 shared issues)
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- Buck (1 shared issues)
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- Buck v. Bell (1 shared issues)
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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.
3. Some people are predicting that now that the blog is back up NYT might still publish their article about me. I guess I have no right to object anymore. Balaji Srinivasan's rule about hit pieces is to get out in front of them and reveal any negative information they're going to use before they do. Right now the negative information I know they've collected is an incident in college where I was writing a humor thing in a college paper, tried to write a column mocking racists, did it so badly that people thought I was asserting the racism, then did a bad job apologizing afterwards. Someone else says they might use some old comments of mine to suggest I support eugenics. I support it in the sense of improving people's genetics and genetic outcomes - long-term through genetic engineering, medium-term through having things like the Nobel sperm bank (but less badly done) available for people who want them, and short-term through voluntary community-based efforts like Dor Yeshorim. I don't support any form of eugenics more coercive or racist than that. I think these are the main pieces of negative information on me they're pursuing, so I look forward to seeing them treat everything else I've done fairly and in-context.
Inline links: Nobel sperm bank, Dor Yeshorim
Beroe: What you call my “pathological extreme Outside View” is an attempt to ban myself from smuggling in all my prejudices under the guise of “context”. For example, someone with different biases than you might say eugenics had many successes - my favorite is Dor Yeshorim, the group that screens for the genetic mutations common in Ashkenazi Jews and makes sure that two carriers don’t marry each other and produce a child with a deadly condition. Or they might say environmentalism has had some pretty spectacular failures - knee-jerk environmentalist opposition to nuclear power prevented it from taking over from fossil fuels, leading to our current coal-and-oil-dominated regime and all the worries about climate change that come with it - also coal pollution in the air kills tens of thousands of people per year directly. I think that if you do your calculations and context-finding without writing the bottom line ahead of time, it’s actually quite hard to make environmentalism come out on top.