Southern California
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Southern California is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between December 11, 2023 and October 28, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “he is a therapist on the list, based in Southern California”; “It guessed Southern California, USA”; “available at Whole Foods in Southern California”. It most often appears alongside Barcelona, China, Detroit.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: December 11, 2023
- Last seen: October 28, 2025
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- Barcelona (2 shared issues)
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- @scaling01 (1 shared issues)
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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.
3: A few years ago I started the Psychiatlist, a list of psychiatrists and therapists endorsed by ACX readers (though not checked by me). I let it lapse pretty badly for a while, but some good work by Erik Anderson and Josh Haas has it up and running again at psychiatlist.astralcodexten.com. Thanks especially to Erik for kickstarting this process (and by the way he is a therapist on the list, based in Southern California).
Inline links: psychiatlist.astralcodexten.com
...ce wrong: 3 km - It guessed Fort Frederick State Park, Maryland (USA) which was correct. - It guessed Atlanta GA, was Gatlinsburg TN. Distance wrong: 230 km - It guessed Southern California, USA was Six Flags NJ. Distance wrong: 3800 km Fermion concluded “It got the tourist destinations where there were a lot pictures taken very accurately for example pictu...
...oit. Distance wrong: 3 km - It guessed Fort Frederick State Park, Maryland (USA) which was correct. - It guessed Atlanta GA, was Gatlinsburg TN. Distance wrong: 230 km - It guessed Southern California, USA was Six Flags NJ. Distance wrong: 3800 km Fermion concluded “It got the tourist destinations where there were a lot pictures taken very accurately for example pictures ,...
IAA is promoting a technological solution - in ovo sexing - that lets farmers identify eggs by sex and only hatch the female ones. This is already widespread in Europe, but recently got its first American champion in NestFresh, available at Whole Foods in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada now, and elsewhere later this year. Other companies are watching their performance - so if you support this effort, consider buying NestFresh eggs with the "Humanely Hatched" label. Read more here.
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And the Solano Foundry would be the “the largest [advanced manufacturing] park in the US”. Many of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs’ manufacturing startups set up shop in Southern California - for example, Elon Musk’s original base for SpaceX and the Boring Company was in Hawthorne, near LA - just because the Bay has so few good industrial locations. The Foundry aims to change that, and aims for 40,000 new manufacturing jobs. Finally, something nobody else will care about but which is close to my heart - Jan is pursuing a partnership with Monumental Labs, a group working on “AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories”. The question of why modern architecture is so dull and unornamented compared to its classical counterpart is complicated, but three commonly-proposed reasons are: Ornament costs too much