Siberia

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Siberia is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 20, 2021 and May 08, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “cold-weather deaths in Siberians even at temperatures as low as -52C”; “But then why don’t we see any effect from excess winter heart attacks in very cold places like Stockholm or Siberia?”; “pictures of streets in Siberia”. It most often appears alongside Europe, @DeepGuessr, @scaling01.

Metadata

• Category: Places
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: October 20, 2021
• Last seen: May 08, 2025

Appears In

• Chilling Effects
• Highlights From The Comments On AI Geoguessr

Related Pages

• • Europe (2 shared issues)
• • @DeepGuessr (1 shared issues)
• • @scaling01 (1 shared issues)
• • ACX Discord (1 shared issues)
• • Africa (1 shared issues)
• • AIFP (1 shared issues)
• • Albania (1 shared issues)
• • Alex Zavoluk (1 shared issues)
• • AlphaGo (1 shared issues)
• • AlphaGo (1 shared issues)
• • Argentina (1 shared issues)
• • Atlanta (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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_language
• • https://twitter.com/SilverVVulpes/status/1382409197204205568
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • 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.

Chilling Effects

October 20, 2021 · Original source

You could argue that this is at least partly because of cultural adaptation. The “effective temperature”, the one that’s reaching your blood vessels and your heart, depends on things like how many layers of clothing you wear, how often you go outside, how much air conditioning you use, et cetera. So for example, in the figure above, Stockholm doesn’t get any increased mortality from the cold, no matter how cold it gets. Plausibly that’s because they’ve organized their lives and built environment around surviving cold winters. One study failed to find any excess cold-weather deaths in Siberians even at temperatures as low as -52C (-62F).

Global warming should theoretically help prevent the excess winter heart attacks, which are a direct effect of cold weather. But then why don’t we see any effect from excess winter heart attacks in very cold places like Stockholm or Siberia? Overall I’m not convinced of this one either.

Highlights From The Comments On AI Geoguessr

May 08, 2025 · Original source

I tried to reproduce this on several not-previously-online pictures of streets in Siberia and the results were nowhere as impressive as described in this post. The model seemed to realize it was in Russia when it saw an inscription in Russian or a flag; failing that it didn't even always get the country right. When it did, it usually got the place thousands of kilometers wrong. I don't understand where this discrepancy is coming from. Curious.

After looking through many other user tests, I found this the most insightful rule of thumb on what it gets right vs. wrong. In retrospect, Kelsey’s California beach and my Nepal trekking trail are both very touristy; my house in Michigan and Vadim’s Siberian streets aren’t.

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