United Arab Emirates
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United Arab Emirates is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between April 14, 2021 and December 10, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Dubai in the United Arab Emirates”; “DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ( RSVP )”; “donating to the most influential think tanks in Washington (the United Arab Emirates to CSIS)“. It most often appears alongside Israel, China, Europe.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: April 14, 2021
- Last seen: December 10, 2025
Appears In
- Prospectus On Próspera
- Meetups Everywhere 2021: Times And Places
- Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
- Meetups Everywhere 2025: Times and Places
- Links For December 2025
Related Pages
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- Israel (5 shared issues)
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- China (4 shared issues)
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- Europe (4 shared issues)
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- France (4 shared issues)
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- Germany (4 shared issues)
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- Hong Kong (4 shared issues)
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- Ireland (4 shared issues)
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- Italy (4 shared issues)
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- New York (4 shared issues)
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- ACX (3 shared issues)
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- ACX (3 shared issues)
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- Canada (3 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.
Proponents point out that the idea of a ZEDE or charter city is similar to (in fact, stronger than) the idea of a special economic zone, which transformed the cities of Shenzhen in China and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (RSVP) Contact: RS, xyxyxz[at]gmail[dot]com Time: 6:00 PM, Friday, October 1 Location: Starbucks behind Jumeirah Creekside Hotel Coordinates: https://w3w.co/themes.seasonal.salsa Notes: This is probably going to be a tiny group, so I'm open to change time or location to accommodate anyone if they get in touch.
Inline links: RSVP, https://w3w.co/themes.seasonal.salsa
donating to the most influential think tanks in Washington (the United Arab Emirates to CSIS; Qatar to Brookings Institution);
Contact: Anslem Namonye Contact Info: anslemnamonye[a t]gmail[period]com Time: Saturday, September 20th, 6:00 PM Location: National ICT Innovation Hub, Nakawa, Kampala, Uganda. We'll be meeting inside the main reception area of the National ICT Innovation Hub. Once you're at the entrance, look out for a sign labeled "ACX MEETUP - Kampala", and I’ll be wearing a White shirt. If you need help finding the place or have any questions, feel free to call or WhatsApp me at +256 761 951 019 Coordinates: https://plus.codes/6GGJ8JH7+JH Group Link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DII [remove this bit] k5Ru1QxxLrBAfvIIYmi Notes: Feel free to bring a friend or two! Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP via WhatsApp so we can plan seating and snacks accordingly: +256 761 951 019 Come with curiosity and an open mind. We welcome both first-timers and long-time ACX readers. United Arab Emirates DUBAI Contact: Marko Contact Info: thiel[period]marko[a t]cantab[period]net Time: Saturday, September 6th, 6:00 PM Location: La Tablita Dubai Coordinates: https://plus.codes/7HQQ68MF+MM
Inline links: https://plus.codes/6GGJ8JH7+JH, https://plus.codes/7HQQ68MF+MM
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”