UAE
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UAE is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between August 25, 2023 and December 10, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “UAE”; “within UAE sharia law”; “US does support the UAE”. It most often appears alongside ACX, California, Cape Town.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: August 25, 2023
- Last seen: December 10, 2025
Appears In
- Meetups Everywhere 2023: Times & Places
- Highlights From The Comments On Capitalism & Charity
- Meetups Everywhere Spring 2025: Times & Places
- Links For December 2025
Related Pages
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- ACX (3 shared issues)
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- California (3 shared issues)
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- Cape Town (3 shared issues)
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- China (3 shared issues)
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- Dubai (3 shared issues)
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- EA (3 shared issues)
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- facebook (3 shared issues)
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- Ireland (3 shared issues)
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- Israel (3 shared issues)
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- Lithuania (3 shared issues)
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- Michael (3 shared issues)
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- New York (3 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.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Contact: Yaseen Mowzer Contact Info: yaseen[at]mowzer[dot]co[dot]za Time: Saturday, September 16th, 11:00 AM Location: Truth Coffee Roasting, 36 Buitenkant St, Cape Town City Centre Coordinates: https://plus.codes/4FRW3CCF+P3 Notes: Please RSVP so I know how big a table to reserve UAE DUBAI, UAE Contact: RS Contact Info: xyxyxz[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Sunday, September 24th, 7:00 PM Location: Unwind Boardgame Cafe - Zabeel Coordinates: https://plus.codes/7HQQ67MV+HV Notes: Please RSVP on LessWrong or send an email
Inline links: https://plus.codes/4FRW3CCF+P3, https://plus.codes/7HQQ67MV+HV
DUBAI, UAE Contact: RS Contact Info: xyxyxz[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Sunday, September 24th, 7:00 PM Location: Unwind Boardgame Cafe - Zabeel Coordinates: https://plus.codes/7HQQ67MV+HV Notes: Please RSVP on LessWrong or send an email
Inline links: https://plus.codes/7HQQ67MV+HV
There is a global movement towards zones with distinctive law and governance (precisely because it is widely recognized that bad institutions limit economic development). The Charter Cities Institute is indeed a leader in this movement, and should be supported, but the issue of better law and governance in zones is broader than their work alone. The most successful example is the Dubai International Financial Centre, where a common law legal system was placed in a 110 acre zone within UAE sharia law. It led to Dubai becoming a top global financial center in twenty years.
Contact: Ozge Contact Info: ozgeco[a t]yahoo[period]com Time: Saturday, May 3rd, 1:00 PM Location: Cafe Modern at Galataport, Istanbul Modern Museum Entrance Floor Coordinates: https://plus.codes/8GHC2XGM+94 Notes: I organize this meeting with the EA Istanbul Group. ACX readers, AI Safety and EA people, all of you are warmly welcomed. If possible, let me know that you will be attending by dropping an email or replying on LessWrong. I will be sitting outside of the cafe - weather permitting- with a ACX Meeting sign on the table. Looking forward to meeting old friends and new ones! UAE DUBAI Contact: Mike Contact Info: lumenwrites[a t]gmail[period]com Time: Sunday, April 13th, 4:00 PM Location: SpartaCUEs Board Game Centre, 2nd floor. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/7HQQ46M8+6Q Group Link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BfI [remove this bit] iv6EMJOZIVVhTiNocqj Notes: Please message me (+971507349246, or via WhatsApp group) at least a day in advance to let me know that you'll be joining.
Inline links: https://plus.codes/8GHC2XGM+94, https://plus.codes/7HQQ46M8+6Q
46: The death toll of the ongoing Sudan genocide has risen to about 150,000. Nicholas Kristof writes that the world has once again failed to prevent atrocities, and argues that the most important point of leverage is pressure on the United Arab Emirates, which is arming the genociders. Sam Kriss also writes about the situation in The World’s First Matcha Labubu Genocide, but is unimpressed with Kristof’s take: Sudan is passed over in a deeply uncomfortable silence. The absolute most you can do is blame the Emiratis. From what I’ve seen, more people seem to be appalled at the UAE for its frankly marginal role in arming the RSF than at the RSF itself. This is the approved way of understanding any inscrutably indigenous foreign conflict: you just worm out any third-party involvement and then act like you’ve solved the whole thing. I side with Kristof here, for reasons that Sam himself touches on later in his piece, in a section comparing Darfur with Gaza. It would be very easy to make people care about Darfur again. All it would take is a loud, vocal contingent of RSF apologists in the Western media. I agree, but would frame it less cynically: the reason Westerners pay attention to Gaza is that there’s a lever to push: not only does America support Israel, but many of their friends support Israel, so they can imagine convincing America or at least their friends to stop, and at least feel like there is some remote chance of making a small difference (and in fact, Trump getting mad at Israel and deciding to pressure them was decisive in effecting the cease-fire). On the other hand, we don’t have many levers to affect ethnic Baggara in the Rapid Support Forces of Sudan, so it doesn’t really feel useful to write blog posts arguing that they should stop; obviously they should stop, nobody disagrees with this, and it goes without saying - so nobody says it. But the US does support the UAE, and many of our friends like the UAE or at least go there on vacation, so maybe it’s possible to have make some small difference by embarrassing them. 4D chess take is that Sam Kriss agrees with all of this, but “loudly” and “vocally” argued against it to give people like me a hook to write about this genocide with, in which case I thank him for his sacrifice. It would also be nice to be able to donate, but I don’t know who to trust in the region - other than Doctors Without Borders, who are usually pretty good. 47: The AI Futures Project (group of AI-will-be-fast intellectuals) and the AI As A Normal Technology team (group of AI-will-be-slow intellectuals) wrote an adversarial collaboration in Asterisk explaining what they agree on, for example: That there’s an important distinction between existing AI and “strong AGI”