Erik
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Erik is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between January 27, 2022 and November 04, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Erik on US cost inflation”; “the most “famous” person to enter won first place, and if it had been open-identity I would have wondered whether he was drawing on a pre-existing fan base. But no, Erik can rest assured he is actually very good at writing (which he probably already knew, being a novelist and all”; ”— Erik from Uruk”. It most often appears alongside Australia, Scott, Substack.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: January 27, 2022
- Last seen: November 04, 2022
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Health Care Systems
- Book Review Contest 2022 Winners
- From The Mailbag
- ACX Grants: Project Updates
Related Pages
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- Australia (3 shared issues)
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- Scott (3 shared issues)
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- Substack (3 shared issues)
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- Canada (2 shared issues)
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- 1587 (1 shared issues)
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- 1587, A Year Of No Significance (1 shared issues)
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- 1DaySooner (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- @campeters4 (1 shared issues)
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- a_reader (1 shared issues)
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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.
1st: The Dawn Of Everything, reviewed by Erik Hoel. Erik is a neuroscientist and author of the recent novel The Revelations. He writes at his Substack The Intrinsic Perspective.
I was happy with my decision to keep this contest anonymous, because the most “famous” person to enter won first place, and if it had been open-identity I would have wondered whether he was drawing on a pre-existing fan base. But no, Erik can rest assured he is actually very good at writing (which he probably already knew, being a novelist and all, but you never know). In fact, 2 of the 5 winners, plus an extra 1.5 of the remaining finalists, were authors of Substacks which I read and have linked to here (Hoel, Roger’s Bacon, Resident Contrarian, and the extra 0.5 is for Etienne who I didn’t know about before this week but just saw his post Common Tech Jobs Described As Cabals Of Mesoamerican Wizards on the subreddit). I’m always suspicious that everything is fake and good writers aren’t actually good and it’s just a social conspiracy to believe that they are, but these results are a vote in support of our existing writer-identification-institutions (are they all Substack? I guess it’s just Substack) - although many unknown people also did very well, including the 2nd place winner (I didn’t get a response to my email asking how I should reveal his identity, so I’m defaulting to initials, but I don’t recognize his real name either).
36: Seeds Of Science, A Journal Of Non-Traditional Research (6/10) The journal exists and can be found here. Erik is working on it fuller-time and has a part-time assistant. They are excited about some upcoming articles and alternative distribution channels. They continue to look for more funding; if interested, contact Info@TheSeedsofScience.org
Inline links: here, Info@TheSeedsofScience.org