Mahayana
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Mahayana is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 04, 2023 and February 09, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Mahayana as ‘monster truck’”; “translated “Mahayana” as “monster truck”“. It most often appears alongside Bitcoin, California, New York Times.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 04, 2023
- Last seen: February 09, 2023
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Related Pages
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- Bitcoin (2 shared issues)
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- New York Times (2 shared issues)
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- Rome (2 shared issues)
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- @moritheil (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Prediction Contest (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Tooze (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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- AI Circle (1 shared issues)
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- AI X-Risk Research Podcast (1 shared issues)
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- AISafety.training (1 shared issues)
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- Al-Mada’in (1 shared issues)
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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.
“Glad you asked! I’m working on a new translation of the Pali Canon. I translate nirvana as ‘freedom’, maya as ‘fake news’, and Mahayana as ‘monster truck’. Gādhrakūta is ‘Mt. Eagle’. Some parts don’t even have to be retranslated! The sutras say that you attain the formless jhanas by ‘passing beyond bodily sensations and paying no attention to perceptions of diversity’. See, it’s perfect! Red state conservatives already hate paying attention to diversity!”
32: In honor of the Even More Bay Area House Party post where a character translated “Mahayana” as “monster truck”, Nat Sharpe (or more likely an AI prompted by Nat) made these images:
Inline links: Even More Bay Area House Party