Astral Codex Ten

Bear

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Bear

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Bear is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 06, 2023 and January 02, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “unlike Bear or my response to Bear”; “the Laine , Bear , and Trammell/Dwarkesh articles that inspired it”. It most often appears alongside 2026-era Internet, ACX, ACX Grants.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: February 06, 2023
  • Last seen: January 02, 2026

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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.

Open Thread 262
February 06, 2023 · Original source
6: Speaking of Lars - I tried to credit Philosophy Bear as someone who had beaten me to writing about the chatbot propaganda apocalypse, but I didn’t realize Lars had also discussed it on his blog - see AI: Markets For Lemons, And The Great Logging Off. I like his post because unlike Bear or my response to Bear, it’s not originally considering the problem through a political lens and so mostly just expects “spam, but worse” - which I think is broadly right, but didn’t emphasize enough earlier.
Inline links: Philosophy Bear, AI: Markets For Lemons, And The Great Logging Off
You Have Only X Years To Escape Permanent Moon Ownership
January 02, 2026 · Original source
If you’re not familiar with “X years to escape the permanent underclass”, see the New Yorker here, or the Laine, Bear, and Trammell/Dwarkesh articles that inspired it.
Inline links: the New Yorker here, Laine, Bear, Trammell/Dwarkesh
You have only X years to escape being permanently boring when the weight of galactic humanity descends to scrutinize your life forever. Ten million years from now, do you want transhuman intelligences on a Niven Ring somewhere in Dario Amodei’s supercluster to briefly focus their deific gaze on your legacy and think “Yeah, he spent the whole hinge of history making B2B SAAS products because he was afraid of ‘joining the permanent underclass’, now he has a moon 20% bigger than the rest of us?” Or do you want them to think “She was one of the heroes who arose when the fate of humanity balanced on a knife’s edge, fought against the thousand forms of entropy that could have ended our paradise before it began, helped create a vision of broad-based prosperity that benefitted all humanity, and gets 0.000038501% of the credit for our current happy state. We grant her the rank of Forebear, and the Ancestor Veneration And Simulation Collective has built a megacathedral to her memory three star systems over”?