Donald Klein
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Donald Klein is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 25, 2021 and January 13, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “HEY GUYS HAVE YOU HEARD DONALD KLEIN’S THEORY OF PANIC DISORDER?”; “he co-published with Donald Klein”; “he co-published with Donald Klein, whose ventilatory hypothesis of panic revolutionized my understanding”. It most often appears alongside China, WIRED, ACX/Metaculus 2026 Prediction Contest.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: October 25, 2021
- Last seen: January 13, 2026
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Related Pages
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- WIRED (2 shared issues)
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- Metaculus 2026 Prediction Contest (1 shared issues)
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- Adrian Hon (1 shared issues)
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- AGI (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- AlanMCole (1 shared issues)
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- Albert Einstein (1 shared issues)
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- AlphaRaccoon (1 shared issues)
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- AlphaRaccoon (1 shared issues)
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- Alternate reality games (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 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.
Maybe the heap of already-discovered knowledge is so unwieldy that diving into it and retrieving a particular piece of already-discovered knowledge becomes its own form of discovery. I once won a research prize for a paper which was basically "HEY GUYS HAVE YOU HEARD DONALD KLEIN'S THEORY OF PANIC DISORDER?" Everyone who read my paper agreed that the theory was beautiful and important and they'd learned a lot from it, but my apparently prize-worthy contribution was just to dig it up and show how it applied to a particular patient whose condition was otherwise mysterious. Probably a lot of work linking conspiracy theories and the discovery drive has already been done somewhere; Hon either independently rederived it, or read it and realized it applied to QAnon. Either way, he got it in front of a lot of people who were happy to learn about it and it's fair to celebrate his contribution.
The obvious next question - is Coplan Sr’s work on panic disorder any good? Answer: yes! - he co-published with Donald Klein, whose ventilatory hypothesis of panic revolutionized my understanding of the condition. Great Families theory undefeated.