Astral Codex Ten

Mein Kampf

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Mein Kampf

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Mein Kampf is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 17, 2023 and August 04, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “quoting Mein Kampf”; “As he wrote later in Mein Kampf”; “he used his time behind bars to refine his political vision and began writing Mein Kampf”. It most often appears alongside Hitler, Academy’s School of Architecture, Adolf.

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  • Category: Books
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: July 17, 2023
  • Last seen: August 04, 2023

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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.

Contra The xAI Alignment Plan
July 17, 2023 · Original source
I’ve never seen this cause a Waluigi Effect. There’s no point where ChatGPT starts hailing the Fuhrer and quoting Mein Kampf. It just actually makes it anti-Nazi. For a theory that’s supposed to say something profound about LLMs, it’s very hard to get one to demonstrate a Waluigi effect in real life. The examples provided tend to be thought experiments, or at best contrived scenarios where you’re sort of indirectly telling the AI to do the opposite of what it usually does, then calling that a “Waluigi”.
Your Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
August 04, 2023 · Original source
Young Adolf matured quickly, beginning his angsty, rebellious phase before he was even a teenager. Alois wanted his son to follow him into the civil service. Adolf refused. As he wrote later in Mein Kampf:
In these harangues, Hitler defended his actions and gave his vision for Germany’s future. It was this performance that gave Hitler his first national prominence. He was found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in prison (despite a legal requirement that treason carry a life sentence). He served nine months of his sentence before being released on parole, and he used his time behind bars to refine his political vision and began writing Mein Kampf. All in all, it was a small price to pay for his new national salience.
Hitler certainly wasn’t shy about his anti-liberal intentions. In his public trial following the Beer Hall Putsch, he explicitly claimed that he was destined to be dictator of Germany10. Behind closed doors his message was no different: in a secret meeting with industrialists in 1933, Hitler told them, “Private enterprise cannot be maintained in an age of democracy; it is conceivable only if the people have a sound idea of authority and personality.” Even in Mein Kampf, published in 1925 well before Hilter’s rise to power, he laid out exactly the sort of authoritarian control he sought:
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