Dominican Republic
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Dominican Republic is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between April 14, 2021 and April 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Próspera’s white paper mentions “expansion opportunities” in Guatemala, Dominican Republic”; “divergence between Haiti and the Dominican Republic”; “the Dominican Republic eventually did much better”. It most often appears alongside Haiti, New York, Spain.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: April 14, 2021
- Last seen: April 10, 2023
Appears In
- Prospectus On Próspera
- Links For July
- Links For September
- Universe-Hopping Through Substack
- Spring Meetups Everywhere 2023
Related Pages
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- Haiti (3 shared issues)
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- New York (3 shared issues)
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- Spain (3 shared issues)
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- Texas (3 shared issues)
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- Twitter (3 shared issues)
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- Australia (2 shared issues)
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- Boston (2 shared issues)
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- Canada (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- David Friedman (2 shared issues)
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- Denmark (2 shared issues)
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- Dubai (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.
Próspera’s white paper mentions “expansion opportunities” in Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and Haiti. None of those countries allow ZEDEs now, and none of them seem interested in changing that. But if they watch Honduras get rich, maybe they’ll think again. There are six hundred million people in Latin America; who knows where they could be thirty years from now?
21: Probably inspired by the recent assassination of the Haitian president, there’s been some interesting recent discussion on divergence between Haiti and the Dominican Republic - same GDP per capita until ~1960, but now Dominican Republic is about 8x higher. Start with Noah Smith here, then Tyler Cowen here, then Lurking_Chronicler_2 here. One reason people find this question so interesting is that it feels like it should be possible to pinpoint the difference to policy-like-variables alone - since Haiti and the DR were doing so similarly for so long, it doesn’t seem like culture or genetics should play a role. I’m not sure this is really that airtight - one of Noah’s commenters points out that even when Haiti and DR had identical GDPperCs, DR life expectancy was ten years longer, so maybe there are hidden depths. It’s tempting to attribute all of Haiti’s terrible second-half-of-the-20th-century to the Duvaliers, but it’s still a minor mystery why DR has done so much better than the rest of Latin America. Tyler Cowen offhandedly mentions really good use of special economic zones. I’d like to learn more about that - some of the people who are always talking about Shenzhen and Dubai should write about it sometime.
21: More mea culpa: last month, I linked to some articles speculating on why, even though Haiti and the Dominican Republic had the same GDP in 1960, the Dominican Republic eventually did much better. Now a Haiti econ blog (appropriately named Vodou Economics) proposes a much better explanation - the data are wrong, and the DR was always ahead of Haiti. The DR’s recent economic boom is still interesting, but we should stop insisting on finding a post-1960 explanation for Haiti’s current woes.
Inline links: Vodou Economics
Ray J was vacationing with friends at a luxury mansion in the Dominican Republic when he spontaneously hoped on IG to respond with “faded rage” to Jenner’s talk show antics. Deciding, after a lot of weed washed down with some delicious-looking exotic cocktails, that enough is enough. That he is done being villainized by this family and the manipulated lies still surrounding this storyline that continues to feed new subplots, 20 years later, to frame him as the sleazy ex who betrayed Kim. While Kim is portrayed as the unsuspecting victim, who weathered the storm of scandal forced upon her.
This year we have spring meetups planned in over eighty cities, from Tokyo to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Thanks to all the organizers who responded to my request for details, and to Meetups Czar Skyler and the Less Wrong team for making this happen.
PUNTA CANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Contact: Nikita Sokolsky Contact Info: sokolx[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Sunday, April 16th, 06:00 PM Location: Soles restaurant. We will have an ACX Meetup sign on the table. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/77CHMHMP+6W Event Link: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/YsGiAZnZvcvG2CG5s/acx-everywhere-punta-cana-dr