Jo Cameron

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Jo Cameron is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 15, 2024 and August 06, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “I. Jo Cameron, Bio-Arhat”; “a 76 year old Scottish woman named Jo Cameron”; “Jo Cameron forces us to ask: is that just cope?“. It most often appears alongside Internet, @the_megabase, A Pan-Species Welfare State.

Metadata

• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: May 15, 2024
• Last seen: August 06, 2024

Appears In

• Profile: The Far Out Initiative
• Altruism And Vitalism As Fellow Travelers

Related Pages

• • Internet (2 shared issues)
• • @the_megabase (1 shared issues)
• • A Pan-Species Welfare State (1 shared issues)
• • ACX Grantees (1 shared issues)
• • ACX MEETUP (1 shared issues)
• • AI (1 shared issues)
• • altruism (1 shared issues)
• • America (1 shared issues)
• • Apimostinel (1 shared issues)
• • Aristotelian virtue theory (1 shared issues)
• • Bell Labs (1 shared issues)
• • BIA 10-2474 (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/10/book-review-the-prices-are-too-dmn-high/
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/details-that-you-should-include-in/comment/61387082
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/profile-the-far-out-initiative
• • https://www.neonarrative.us/p/an-interview-with-scott-alexander
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

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.

Profile: The Far Out Initiative

May 15, 2024 · Original source

My other disagreement with neurodiversity advocates is that they insist no neurotype is better than any other. This is, as they say, a postmodernist lie. The best neurotype belongs to a 76 year old Scottish woman named Jo Cameron.

For centuries, philosophers have praised suffering as a necessary part of the human condition. Without suffering, we couldn’t learn, couldn’t empathize, couldn’t be fully human. Jo Cameron forces us to ask: is that just cope?

Is FAAH-OUT even responsible for Jo Cameron’s condition? When I first wrote about FAAH-OUT, Twitter user @the_megabase got interested and ran some analyses. They were able to find a few other people in the UK Biobank with Cameron’s pattern of FAAH and FAAH-OUT mutations, none of whom had any unusual pain resistance. They point out that over the past twenty years, the vast majority of associations between single genes and exciting phenotypes (“candidate genes”) have failed, proving in the end to be only statistical noise. Will that happen here too?

Inline links: and ran some analyses

Altruism And Vitalism As Fellow Travelers

August 06, 2024 · Original source

Here I’ll also refer back to my old post on Jo Cameron, a Scottish woman with a rare genetic mutation that makes it impossible for her to suffer. She cannot feel pain, anxiety, fear, or any other negative emotion. As far as anyone can tell, she is completely normal. She is a successful wife, mother, and teacher, generally considered well-liked and excellent at her job. She may not have achieved greatness, but I once talked to someone impressive who you’ve probably heard of (I don’t have permission to share their name) who seems to have a lesser version of the same condition.

Inline links: Jo Cameron

Backlinks

• Altruism And Vitalism As Fellow Travelers
• People: J
• Profile: The Far Out Initiative