PhD
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PhD is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between June 28, 2024 and September 02, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “it’s monitored by PhD’s”; “first LGBT person to get a PhD in the study of ancient Assyria”; “some of them already have ‘PhD level intelligence’“. It most often appears alongside 2023 special, Aashish Reddy, ACX grant winners.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: June 28, 2024
- Last seen: September 02, 2025
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- 2023 special (1 shared issues)
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- Aashish Reddy (1 shared issues)
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- ACX grant winners (1 shared issues)
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- African Gray Parrot (1 shared issues)
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- AI 2027 (1 shared issues)
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- AI Innovation And Security Policy Workshop (1 shared issues)
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- Alex (1 shared issues)
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- Alex the Parrot (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- ancient Assyria (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten (1 shared issues)
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- Atlanta (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.
Scully asks him to comment on the frankly disturbing living conditions, only to have Godwin reject the premise. He thinks that the pigs like where they live. He says it’s good for them. They eat all they want, there are no predators, it’s warm, it’s monitored by PhD’s, and there’s nothing he would do differently. He also gives a curious concession to the fact that the pigs are not actually unfeeling robots:
Five, maybe ten percent of applicants are some kind of special snowflake whose father was murdered when they were five years old. As he lay there bleeding out, he said “Daughter, my whole life, I dreamed of being the first LGBT person to get a PhD in the study of ancient Assyria. Now that dream has been taken from me. With my dying breath, I give you my trowel and hand-painted figurine of Tiglath-Pileser III, in the hopes that one day you will succeed where I failed”. […]
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