"Is Wine Fake?" In Asterisk Magazine
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Summary
A promo/announcement for the launch of Asterisk (Clara Collier's rationalist/EA magazine), whose first issue includes Scott's 'Is Wine Fake?' (hosted there, not on ACX). Mostly a table-of-contents of the issue's pieces (monkeypox forecasting, Kelsey Piper on longtermism, Esvelt on bioterror, Ritchie on the replication crisis, Vollrath on growth, China's chips, nuclear escalation, factory-farming-2053), capped by the kabbalistic launch-party coda (the refreshment was a white wine dyed red -- nobody caught it).
Why this score
Quality 48 · Solid. Solid (low)/Minor: a promo TOC pointing to another publication, with a charming kabbalistic-food coda but little standalone substance (the actual wine article is elsewhere).
Claude’s paradigm shift 25 · Slight. Slight: an announcement; no ideas of its own.
Real-world impact 2 · Minor. Minor: helps launch a real EA-adjacent magazine, but the post itself is a promo with a diffuse effect.