Devon

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Devon is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 02, 2021 and November 08, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “Devon writes: Today, Chautauqua continues to be a place of perpetual learning and tight-knit community”; “I trust Devon more than I trust some anti-tech e-zine”. It most often appears alongside Charter Cities Institute, Devon Zuegel, Honduras.

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• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: August 02, 2021
• Last seen: November 08, 2021

Appears In

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Related Pages

• • Charter Cities Institute (2 shared issues)
• • Devon Zuegel (2 shared issues)
• • Honduras (2 shared issues)
• • Prospera (2 shared issues)
• • Prospera (2 shared issues)
• • ZEDE (2 shared issues)
• • AgroAlpha (1 shared issues)
• • Alex Tabarrok (1 shared issues)
• • Amazon (1 shared issues)
• • America (1 shared issues)
• • Apolo Group (1 shared issues)
• • Ashkenazi (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://devonzuegel.com/
• • https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/10/book-review-the-prices-are-too-dmn-high/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/details-that-you-should-include-in/comment/61387082
• • https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1906042672499864034
• • https://x.com/devonzuegel/status/1955298715259769134

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.

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August 02, 2021 · Original source

I recently got to talk to Devon Zuegel, who also blogs about model cities. Along with the usual examples, she talks about her own experience growing up in Chautauqua, a small town in New York. Its history is: some 19th century Methodists organized a retreat. Every summer they would go to a nice lake and discuss the Bible for a few weeks. They liked it a lot and it became a kind of institution with some more permanent structures. Some of them moved there year-round, and eventually it became a town. Devon writes:

Inline links: Devon Zuegel, her own experience growing up in Chautauqua

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November 08, 2021 · Original source

Devon Zuegel, a friend of the blog who was on the ground at Prospera at the time, gives the ZEDE’s version:

I’m probably biased here, but I trust Devon more than I trust some anti-tech e-zine. Other sources confirm that Crawfish Rock citizens have had big problems getting water for a long time. Rest Of World wasn’t really able to deny that Prospera gave Crawfish Rock water when they really needed it, try as they might to make it sound sinister. And they weren’t able to deny that their only condition was that the city officially say they wanted it, which sounds like a pretty reasonable demand with the news coverage being what it is.

Inline links: Other sources

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