Sniffnoy

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Sniffnoy is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 05, 2022 and June 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Sniffnoy writes : Hm, Proposition 1 it seems to me goes much further than keeping abortion legal”; “Sniffnoy explains how private fire departments stayed in business”; “Sniffnoy: The History Of The Term “Planet” Is Probably Not What You Think It Is”. It most often appears alongside 2006 IAU vote, 2023 Prediction Contest, 9/11.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: November 05, 2022
  • Last seen: June 01, 2023

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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.

November 05, 2022 · Original source
Sniffnoy writes:
January 01, 2023 · Original source
2: Some updates/corrections to last week’s Links post: Sniffnoy explains how private fire departments stayed in business. Questions about / alternative explanations for declining Native American test scores. The hack to beat AI at Go probably isn’t as interesting as I thought. Cremieux does a deep dive into the persistence-of-poverty-after-slavery study I hoped someone would do a deep dive into. Ivan Fyodorovich on why surname analysis doesn’t disprove Albion’s Seed.
June 01, 2023 · Original source
17: Sniffnoy: The History Of The Term “Planet” Is Probably Not What You Think It Is. “Moons -- including the Moon -- were considered planets up until the 1920s, and asteroids were considered planets up until the 1950s” and “the 2006 IAU vote [to de-planetize Pluto] was a mistake”.