Astral Codex Ten

Mao

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Mao

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Mao is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 6 times across 6 issues between April 21, 2021 and May 07, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “China from ‘literally Mao’ to ‘kind of an average level of market freedom’”; “The jungle gym guy had two crazy Communist children who were big fans of Mao”; “This has been the case since Mao died”. It most often appears alongside Scott, China, Communism.

Metadata

  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 6
  • Issue count: 6
  • First seen: April 21, 2021
  • Last seen: May 07, 2025

Appears In

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.

Book Review: Global Economic History
April 21, 2021 · Original source
No direct inline source block was recovered for this mention.
Highlights From The Comments On Great Families
November 18, 2021 · Original source
One of Charles [Hinton]'s descendants is Geoffrey Hinton who won a Turing Award a couple of years ago. He is also a descendant of George Boole and George Everest (Surveyor General of India) after whom the mountain is named. He is not descended from the jungle gym guy. The jungle gym guy had two crazy Communist children who were big fans of Mao.
Highlights From The Comments On Xi Jinping
April 28, 2022 · Original source
The Party determines what happens in China. Not some individual. This has been the case since Mao died. Not even Deng had his level of personal unilateral power.
Highlights From The Comments On IRBs
April 17, 2023 · Original source
No direct inline source block was recovered for this mention.
Verses On Five People Being Killed By A Falling Package Of Foreign Aid
March 14, 2024 · Original source
No direct inline source block was recovered for this mention.
Moldbug Sold Out
May 07, 2025 · Original source
No direct inline source block was recovered for this mention.