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Erusian

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Erusian is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 12 times across 12 issues between April 19, 2021 and January 20, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Comments of the week from the blog are Erusian on the different accounts of Caesar’s death”; “Erusian writes : The Hungarians are descended from steppe nomads”; “Erusian for giving a helpful and detailed account of objections to Georgism”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Scott, US.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 12
  • Issue count: 12
  • First seen: April 19, 2021
  • Last seen: January 20, 2025

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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 168
April 19, 2021 · Original source
2: Comments of the week from the blog are Erusian on the different accounts of Caesar’s death, plus Deiseach with other wacky Caesar-related stories. Also, from the Progress and Poverty discussion, why real estate is so expensive in some third world countries, and a subthread on least disruptive ways to institute a land value tax.
Inline links: Erusian on the different accounts of Caesar’s death, other wacky Caesar-related stories, why real estate is so expensive in some third world countries, least disruptive ways to institute a land value tax
Highlights From The Comments On Orban
November 11, 2021 · Original source
Several people chided me for genetic essentialism in my paragraph about Magyars. Erusian writes:
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You can read the rest of Erusian’s very thoughtful 14-part comment here.
Inline links: here
Does Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value be Accurately Assessed Separately From Buildings?
December 11, 2021 · Original source
Erusian for giving a helpful and detailed account of objections to Georgism
Open Thread 215
March 13, 2022 · Original source
3: Other people I missed who correctly predicted the Ukraine war: Erusian, Aleksandr Nevzorov (link in Russian).
Inline links: Erusian, Aleksandr Nevzorov
Highlights From The Comments On Xi Jinping
April 28, 2022 · Original source
— Erusian on Xi’s rise:
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— Erusian:
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— And: is every single one of these sections going to include an Erusian comment?
Inline links: Erusian
Highlights From The Comments On Bobos In Paradise
December 09, 2022 · Original source
Erusian writes:
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Open Thread 271
April 09, 2023 · Original source
1: Some good pushback to my post Most Technologies Aren’t Races, arguing that even my examples of historical non-race technologies were races at the time. See especially Erusian, Tatu Ahponen, Jumpingjacksplash, and (thanks to anonymous emailer) Ding & Dafoe (2023) (Twitter summary here). I agree any technology with military applications is more than zero a race; I still think under most assumptions it’s only a race in the same sense that stealth aircraft are a race, rather than the existential threat you would get if you imported singularitarian scenarios and took out the singularitarian bits.
Inline links: Most Technologies Aren’t Races, Erusian, Tatu Ahponen, Jumpingjacksplash, Ding & Dafoe (2023), here
Highlights From The Comments On Fetishes
August 30, 2023 · Original source
Erusian writes:
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Followup: Quests And Requests
November 10, 2023 · Original source
Erusian writes:
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Erusian again, in response to the (I think valid) question of whether pressuring companies to give up patents might decrease their profits and so their incentives to develop further drugs:
Highlights From The Comments On Capitalism & Charity
January 11, 2024 · Original source
Erusian writes:
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Open Thread 340
July 29, 2024 · Original source
Erusian on the Argentine economy, plus some bonus linguistic detective work.
Inline links: on the Argentine economy
Open Thread 365
January 20, 2025 · Original source
3: Comments from Links: Vlaakith Outrance on A16Z returns, Erusian on dominance within party systems, Hadi Khan corrects my AI training cost numbers (but it ends up not mattering much), and someone linked Alice Evans’ posts on Turkey and fertility (Lyman Stone supposedly discusses this too, though the post is paywalled). And in response to the story about the Chinese warlord misunderstanding basketball, a Jewish friend relates a suspiciously similar legend:
Inline links: on A16Z returns, dominance within party systems, corrects my AI training cost numbers, Turkey, fertility, the post