Astral Codex Ten

Central Park

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Central Park

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Central Park is a recurring venue in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 14, 2021 and April 09, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “a little smaller than New York’s Central Park”; “Central Park is 3.5 square kilometers”; “CTRL+F “Central Park” in the original post for a discussion”. It most often appears alongside Europe, Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

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  • Category: Venues
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: April 14, 2021
  • Last seen: April 09, 2024

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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.

Prospectus On Próspera
April 14, 2021 · Original source
Right now this is just a sort of testbed. Eventually, Próspera plans to buy up most of the land between Palmetto Bay and the golf course (though not the area marked Crawfish Rock, which is already a separate town). That would make it about a square mile in size - a little smaller than New York’s Central Park.
Model City Monday
July 05, 2021 · Original source
Mark Lutter of CCI broadly supports the research, but argues that the World Bank study might underrate CCI’s work. The study only investigated SEZs between 0.5 and 10 square kilometers. This is more like a neighborhood than like a real city (Central Park is 3.5 square kilometers, Manhattan is 87, Shenzhen is 320). But Lutter thinks that “a city is the smallest unit that can support economic development”. He also thinks the SEZs were comparatively weak - slightly lower taxes or something boring like that, compared to the total overhaul involved in charter cities. He comes up with a reference class that includes Shenzhen, but not a lot of SEZs that don’t work, and says this is the proper comparison.
Inline links: broadly supports the research
Highlights From The Comments On The Lab Leak Debate
April 09, 2024 · Original source
“The wet market cases were concentrated around a mahjong room”. CTRL+F “mahjong room” in the original post. The mahjong room itself tested negative, and the “epicenter” mechanism isn’t fine-grained enough to be useful (CTRL+F “Central Park” in the original post for a discussion of why this is).