Astral Codex Ten

Carroll

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Carroll

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Carroll is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 04, 2022 and November 02, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “The only step Carroll missed is the ones where the tradesmen financialize their role”; “Carroll discusses the situation in Ciudad Guayana”; “Carroll ends his book at Chavez’s death”. It most often appears alongside Alice in Wonderland, America, American conservatives.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 04, 2022
  • Last seen: November 02, 2023

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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.

Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894
January 04, 2022 · Original source
Upon re-reading some old SSC comments, I found a gem I’d missed the first time around: Julie K says that the actual first person to invent this idea was Lewis Carroll (aka author of Alice in Wonderland) back in 1894. She quotes from his book Sylvie and Bruno:
Inline links: Julie K says, Sylvie and Bruno
The only step Carroll missed is the ones where the tradesmen financialize their role and sell bonds based on the professors’ future winnings on the free market.
Dictator Book Club: Chavez
November 02, 2023 · Original source
How did a once-great nation reach this point? I read Rory Carroll’s Comandante to find out.
Inline links: Comandante
He continued to hold mostly fair elections throughout his reign. His party even lost some of them! He certainly didn’t murder his enemies as consistently as Putin. He wasn’t even consistent about locking them up. Carroll describes one enemy, a judge who sometimes ruled against him. Chavez jailed her, but forgot (?) to take away her cell phone. She kept posting anti-Chavez tirades from her jail cell, Chavez kept posting bombastic responses, but the thought that she was in jail and he could rough her up or at least steal her phone never really got through to him. Part of Chavez’s appeal was that he was more of a clown than a chessmaster, and this percolated through to his dictatorial style.
Carroll discusses the situation in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela’s “industrial heartland”. During the late 20th century, the Venezuelan elites had invested in it as the harbinger of a new self-sufficient Venezuela full of high-tech factories and good manufacturing jobs. At first, it seemed to be working.