Jake
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Jake is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 7 times across 7 issues between March 08, 2023 and April 01, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Congratulations again to Clara, Jake, and the rest of the Asterisk team!”; “good luck to Jake with this project and everything else”; “Contact: Jake and Brandon”. It most often appears alongside ACX, California, Cambridge.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 7
- Issue count: 7
- First seen: March 08, 2023
- Last seen: April 01, 2026
Appears In
- Issue Two Of Asterisk
- Links For August 2023
- Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024
- Meetups Everywhere 2024: Times & Places
- Misophonia: Beyond Sensory Sensitivity
- Meetups Everywhere 2025: Times and Places
- Meetups Everywhere Spring 2026: Times & Places
Related Pages
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- ACX (5 shared issues)
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- California (5 shared issues)
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- Cambridge (5 shared issues)
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- facebook (5 shared issues)
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- India (5 shared issues)
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- London (5 shared issues)
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- 200 Degrees (4 shared issues)
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- ACX (4 shared issues)
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- ACX MEETUP (4 shared issues)
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- Adam (4 shared issues)
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- Adiel (4 shared issues)
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- Andrew (4 shared issues)
External Links
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.
The Health Debates Over Plant-Based Meat, by Jake Eaton (is this nominative determinism?) There’s no ironclad evidence yet that plant-based meat is any better or worse for you than animals, although I take the pro-vegetarian evidence from the Adventist studies a little more seriously than Jake does (see also section 4 here). There’s a prediction market about the question below the article, but it’s not very well-traded yet.
Inline links: The Health Debates Over Plant-Based Meat, here
Congratulations again to Clara, Jake, and the rest of the Asterisk team! As always, you can subscribe here.
Inline links: here
32: Jake Selinger, currently dying of cancer with “a few weeks or months” left to live, writes about how the FDA is preventing him from obtaining treatments that he thinks could save him. He would like to use his death to spread awareness of this issue, and asks people involved in drug development who have first-hand knowledge to get in touch:
Inline links: how the FDA is preventing him from obtaining treatments that he thinks could save him, people involved in drug development who have first-hand knowledge to get in touch
There are reform efforts and at least three serious people I now know of who are working on books about the invisible graveyard that I’m likely to join soon—and perhaps become a mascot for: a million deaths are a statistic but one is a tragedy, as they say. If the life and death of one man can stand for the millions who have died, maybe people will pay more attention. So if you have any direct experience that you’re willing to share, including anonymously, consider doing your bit for reform.
Inline links: that you’re willing to share
If that’s you, contact him ASAP, I guess, and good luck to Jake with this project and everything else.
TAIPEI Contact: Jake and Brandon Contact Info: jakessolo[plus]acxmeetup[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Sunday, April 28th, 3:00 PM Location: Daan Park - northeast field next to the basketball courts (backup: Learn Bar if it's raining) Coordinates: https://plus.codes/7QQ32GJP+PG3 Notes: Backup location coordinates: https://plus.codes/7QQ32GMJ+GHR
Inline links: https://plus.codes/7QQ32GJP+PG3, https://plus.codes/7QQ32GMJ+GHR
Contact: Jake & Brandon Contact Info: jakessolo[plus]acxmeetup[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Sunday, September 08th, 03:00 PM Location: Daan Park - northeast field next to the basketball courts (backup: Learn Bar if it's raining) Coordinates: https://plus.codes/7QQ32GJP+PG3 Notes: Backup location coordinates of Learn Bar: https://plus.codes/7QQ32GMJ+GHR
Inline links: https://plus.codes/7QQ32GJP+PG3, https://plus.codes/7QQ32GMJ+GHR
Contact: Jake S Contact Info: jacob[dot]scheiber[a t]gmail[d ot]com Time: Saturday, September 14th, 01:00 PM Location: Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary145 Wolf Rd Albany, NY 12205 Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87J8P59W+7J8 Notes: We will probably be sitting outside (unless the weather is bad).
Inline links: https://plus.codes/87J8P59W+7J8
Jake Eaton has a great article on misophonia in Asterisk.
Inline links: a great article on misophonia
So it’s a sensory hypersensitivity, right? Maybe not. There’s increasing evidence - which I learned about from Jake, but which didn’t make it into the article - that misophonia is less about sound than it seems.
I suggested Jake think of this in the context of my old trapped priors post. Suppose that in reality, noise is annoying but nothing more. For whatever reason, someone gets stuck thinking noise is the worst thing in the world. In a normal situation, they should gradually unlearn this association - each time noise happens, they’ll update a little bit of the way back to “annoying and nothing more” until they’re all the way there. For this updating process to fail, the noise must genuinely provoke misery each time. My claim is that this whole learned network of negative things and noise ensures that each instance of noise will provoke enough negative associations to sustain the misophonia and the network of context clues that makes the misophonia work. The knot has so many dependencies that the brain’s natural updating process can’t untangle it in the amount of time it takes to form an emotion, so the update fails, or goes the wrong direction.
Inline links: trapped priors
Contact: Jake Contact Info: jacob[period]scheiber[a t]gmail[period]com Time: Sunday, September 28th, 1:00 PM Location: 131 Colonie Center, Albany NY 12205 (Upstairs in food court, at the tables by the windows overlooking the parking lot) Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87J8P56M+CC
Inline links: https://plus.codes/87J8P56M+CC
Contact: Jake Contact Info: jacob[.]scheiber[@]gmail[.]com Time: Sunday, May 3rd, 1:00 PM Location: 131 Colonie Center, Albany NY 12205 (Upstairs in food court, at the tables by the windows overlooking the parking lot) Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87J8P56M+CC
Inline links: https://plus.codes/87J8P56M+CC