Astral Codex Ten

19th Century

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19th Century

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19th Century is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 20, 2024 and October 22, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “five human and five AI pictures in each of four styles: … 19th Century”; “In the 19th century, the Russian Old Believers accused Napoleon of the same”. It most often appears alongside Sam Altman, /r/ImaginaryWarhammer, 10th century.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: November 20, 2024
  • Last seen: October 22, 2025

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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.

How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?
November 20, 2024 · Original source
I originally planned five human and five AI pictures in each of four styles: Renaissance, 19th Century, Abstract/Modern, and Digital, for a total of forty. After receiving many exceptionally good submissions from local AI artists, I fudged a little and made it fifty. The final set included paintings by Domenichino, Gauguin, Basquiat, and others, plus a host of digital artists and AI hobbyists.
The “human bias” term indicates what percent of art in each category test-takers identified as human, normalized to a situation where the correct answer was always 50%. So in a 50-50 mix of AI and human 19th century art, they would incorrectly guess it was 75-25 human; in a 50-50 mix of digital art, they would incorrectly guess it was only 31% human.
My Antichrist Lecture
October 22, 2025 · Original source
Thank you for attending. The Book of Revelation was written around 95 AD by St. John of Patmos. Most secular scholars interpret it as an allegorical description of events in John’s own time, especially the Roman persecution of the early church. But millennia of Christian commentators have treated it as a prophecy about some future cataclysm - most often during the commentator’s own era. In the 10th century, a renegade bishop declared Pope John XV to be the Antichrist. In the 19th century, the Russian Old Believers accused Napoleon of the same. In our own day, American evangelicals have proposed everyone from Saddam Hussein to Barack Obama.