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Give Up Seventy Percent Of The Way Through The Hyperstitious Slur Cascade

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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Astro-credex 10 is the audio version of Scott Alexander's sub-stack. In this edition, give up 70% of the way through the hyperstitious slur cascade. Why is Jap a slur? It's the natural shortening of Japanese person - just as Brit is not a slur. During World War II, there was a lot of informal, emotionally charged language about Japanese people,. The symmetry broke and it became 95-5 or something.

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