FAA
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FAA is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between May 24, 2021 and October 24, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the FAA currently recommends avoiding demon-bird-men and sticking with mechanical flying horses instead”; “negotiations thrown into by the FAA and the DOT”; “the FAA’s attempt to discriminate in favor of black air traffic control applicants”. It most often appears alongside China, Congress, David Rozado.
Metadata
- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: May 24, 2021
- Last seen: October 24, 2024
Appears In
- Book Review: Arabian Nights
- Your Book Review: Where’s My Flying Car?
- Links For February 2024
- Book Review: The Origins Of Woke
- Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
Related Pages
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Congress (2 shared issues)
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- David Rozado (2 shared issues)
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- Eric Drexler (2 shared issues)
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- Great Stagnation (2 shared issues)
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- Hanania (2 shared issues)
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- NYT (2 shared issues)
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- Rachel Carson (2 shared issues)
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- Republicans (2 shared issues)
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- Supreme Court (2 shared issues)
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- Tesla (2 shared issues)
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- Tyler Cowen (2 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.
Your other option for powered flight in the Idealized Middle East is some demon-men who live on an island in the Indian Ocean. They sometimes turn into birds and go flying, and if you ask them very nicely, they'll take you along. Unfortunately, once you get too high, you'll hear the angels in Heaven praising Allah, and it will sound so beautiful that you'll be compelled to join in. This will wound the birds, who are demons and allergic to Allah's name, and they'll get angry and drop you. So far nobody in the Idealized Middle East has come up with a good solution to this, and the FAA currently recommends avoiding demon-bird-men and sticking with mechanical flying horses instead. Also, don't try to tie yourself to the foot of a roc. This almost never helps.
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22: Congrats to ACX commenter TracingWoodgrains, who has made a significant contribution to a national news story by finding new information on the FAA’s attempt to discriminate in favor of black air traffic control applicants. The FAA deprioritized a standardized test in favor of a “biographical questionnaire” - For example, you got zero points for having previous air traffic experience, but lots of points if you said your worst grades in high school were in science, or that you’d been unemployed for the past three years. Hundreds of qualified applicants who got top grades in the supposedly FAA-endorsed education system for air traffic controllers were turned away in favor of people who gave the “right” answers to the biographical questions, plausibly because these covertly selected by race. Then in addition to this they gave black organizations “keywords” that they could tell their members to get their resumes to the top of the pile.
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