James
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James is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 6 times across 6 issues between August 23, 2021 and January 06, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Contact: James, jglamine[at]gmail[dot]com”; “writers and thinkers I mentioned earlier that suffered from exhaustion (James, Woolf, Mann, Wilde et al)”; “James writes : Would be really interesting to get these results further broken down by Kinsey scale”. It most often appears alongside Scott, ACX, Argentina.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 6
- Issue count: 6
- First seen: August 23, 2021
- Last seen: January 06, 2026
Appears In
- Meetups Everywhere 2021: Times And Places
- Your Book Review: Exhaustion
- Highlights From The Comments On Long COVID And Bisexuality
- 23
- Meetups Everywhere 2024: Times & Places
- Highlights From The Comments On Boomers
Related Pages
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- Scott (4 shared issues)
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- ACX (3 shared issues)
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- Argentina (3 shared issues)
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- France (3 shared issues)
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- Ireland (3 shared issues)
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- Israel (3 shared issues)
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- Japan (3 shared issues)
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- 4th Ave Food Park (2 shared issues)
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- ACX MEETUP (2 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.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (RSVP) Contact: DS, 87robertjames[at]gmail[dot]com Time: 3:00 PM, Sunday, September 5 Location: Delta Park, within 100m of the parking area on the west. I will be wearing a red shirt or jacket, carrying a sign that says ACX MEETUP. Coordinates: https://w3w.co/holiday.crashing.custom
Inline links: RSVP, https://w3w.co/holiday.crashing.custom
HONOLULU, HI (RSVP) Contact: James, jglamine[at]gmail[dot]com, Google group Time: 4:00 PM, Saturday, September 11 Location: Magic Island, on the grass under a tree by this drop pin. Coordinates: https://w3w.co/tingled.steer.tricky Notes: Look for the ACX sign. We will be sitting on the grass so you may want to bring a blanket, towel, or beach chair to sit on. Consider bringing water and sunscreen. It would be helpful if you RSVP in the google group.
COLUMBUS, OH (RSVP) Contact: Jim Hays, james[dot]thomas[dot]hays[at]gmail[dot]com Time: 3:00 PM, Saturday, August 28 Location: Clifton Park Shelterhouse (this is in the SW corner of Jeffrey Park). We will have a sign that says ACX Meetup. Coordinates: https://w3w.co/appeal.august.post
Inline links: RSVP, https://w3w.co/appeal.august.post
As Anna Schaffner explains it in Exhaustion: A History, you will find yourself in good company. The book has testimony from Charles Darwin, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann, amongst others, giving accounts of their chronic pathological exhaustion.
This led to the development in the 19th century of a new, vaguely defined illness known as neurasthenia. It was, in the conception of the time, an illness of overworked and played out nerves due to their overstimulation at the hands of industrialisation and modern society. A neat rhetorical trick was employed by physicians at the time, who claimed that sensitive and creative people doing brain work were more susceptible than those in the working classes. This is an important change, as it begins the move away from the moralistic conception of exhaustion and produces a blame-free, stigma-free conception of an illness which has a tendency to strike the special and the smart. It is no coincidence that many of the writers and thinkers I mentioned earlier that suffered from exhaustion (James, Woolf, Mann, Wilde et al) are all concentrated in this era – they all were diagnosed with neurasthenia. As Darwin announces and elaborates on the theory of evolution, more attention is paid to the idea of inherited weaknesses in nerves, culminating in cultural accounts like Huysmans’s Á rebours (Against Nature), which described the final, exhausted, idle throes of generations of inbreeding in the person of a decadent, hypersensitive and exhausted noble recluse.
Inline links: Á rebours
And people seem to be using the betting functionality! Here’s James (the founder of the site, so I feel okay showing 50,000 people his dating profile for an example).
Does James only have all these matches because he’s the founder? Do ordinary people have friends who will put in this much work to play matchmaker (and bet on it?). My impression is that the Bay Area rationalist social scene members who all know each other well in real life have all matchmade their friends, and the normies are having worse luck. I can’t tell if this is because they don’t have friends on the site, or because they haven’t filled out their profile with any information for matchmakers to go off. There are some bots and Good Samaritan matchmakers gradually going through random people’s profiles and matching them up with each other, though not with any consistency.
All of this, so far, seems informal and motivated by enthusiasm. The market function barely works. For one thing, volume is so much lower than on regular-Manifold that it’s not worth money-seekers’ time; the market for James + the first woman in the picture has a total of ℳ32, compared to ℳ1,700,000 in the “why was Sam Altman fired” market cited above.
Contact: James Contact Info: Jamesmzech[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Friday, September 13th, 06:00 PM Location: Oyster City brewery (603 W Gaines St #7, Tallahassee, FL 32304). I’ll be wearing nondescript clothing and carrying a sign with ACX MEETUP on it. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/862QCPP5+4P
Inline links: https://plus.codes/862QCPP5+4P
Contact: James P Contact Info: jonbenettleilax[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Sunday, October 20th, 12:00 PM Location: Commonwealth Coffee and Bakery (Jones St), 203 E Jones Ave Ste 101, San Antonio, TX 78215. Meet in the outdoor enclave abutting the cafe. I should have a sign setup, and I will have nametags. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/76X3CGP9+9X Group Link: https://lesswrongsa.dry.ai/ Notes: All are welcome!
Inline links: https://plus.codes/76X3CGP9+9X
James (Enriched Jam Sham) writes:
Inline links: Enriched Jam Sham, writes
James answered:
The policy that most people in James’ camp are proposing is to repeal California Proposition 13 (or other jurisdictions’ local variants) which lock property taxes to the value of a house when it was bought (rather than the value now). This benefits old people, who might have bought their houses 30 years ago when prices were much lower. Repealing it, and making everyone pay property taxes based on the current price of their house, would incentivize (in some cases, force) old people to move to cheaper houses.