MIT

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MIT is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 18 times across 18 issues between April 30, 2021 and September 11, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Vernon D. Tate … who went to become chief librarian at MIT”; “wrote the MIT economist Morris Adelman”; “They’re especially trying to expand the student groups at Harvard and MIT”. It most often appears alongside California, Harvard, Japan.

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Category: Organizations
Mention count: 18
Issue count: 18
First seen: April 30, 2021
Last seen: September 11, 2025

Appears In

- California (6 shared issues)
- Harvard (6 shared issues)
- Japan (5 shared issues)
- United States (5 shared issues)
- US (5 shared issues)
- Wikipedia (5 shared issues)
- ACX (4 shared issues)
- America (4 shared issues)
- COVID (4 shared issues)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky (4 shared issues)
- Elon Musk (4 shared issues)
- Israel (4 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.

Your Book Review: Double Fold

April 30, 2021 · Original source

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Your Book Review: The Wizard And The Prophet

April 30, 2021 · Original source

In "Fire," the line between Wizardry and Prophetry seems the most slippery – is solar power an example of a cutting-edge technological solution to a seemingly intractable growth problem (in which case it would be firmly in the Wizard camp) or an environmentally-friendly alternative to "dirty" Wizard technology like fracking and nuclear power plants (in which case, it should belong to the Prophets)? Mann places it more in the Prophet category, but an important point he makes is that, before fears of climate change displaced the locus of the argument surrounding oil, the Prophets’ party line was that alternative "clean" energy solutions like solar were desperately needed because the stock of oil in the world was running out – which so far has proven to be untrue. Much like "we’re running out of room for all these people!" or "we’re running out of space to house all this garbage!" this zombie conviction persisted for decades and seemed resistant to any evidence to the contrary. But if (big if!) carbon emission were of no concern, Wizards would have neatly won this fight through their development of more sophisticated oil extraction techniques and more energy-efficient machines, turning oil supply into a Zeno’s Paradox. Mann: "‘It is commonly asked, when will the world’s supply of oil be exhausted?’ wrote the MIT economist Morris Adelman. ‘The best one-word answer: never.’ On its face, this seems ridiculous – how could a finite stock be inexhaustible, when a constantly renewed flow can run out? But more than a century of experience has shown it to be true. [...] That is, fossil fuel supplies have no known bounds."

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Boston Meetup This Sunday

September 04, 2021 · Original source

Some rationalist/EA leaders are focusing on Boston right now as a promising place to community-build. They’re especially trying to expand the student groups at Harvard and MIT. If you live in Boston and/or attend either of those colleges, then - whether or not you can make it Sunday - consider giving them your name through this form so they can help get you connected.

Inline links: this form

ACX Grants Results

December 28, 2021 · Original source

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ACX Grants ++: The First Half

February 03, 2022 · Original source

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Your Book Review: The Future Of Fusion Energy

June 17, 2022 · Original source

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Highlights From The Comments On The Central Valley

October 13, 2022 · Original source