Astral Codex Ten

Pyramid

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Pyramid

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Pyramid is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 13, 2023 and March 03, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Maybe these people are more akin to the Kennedy and Pyramid believers in Part 1?”; “part of the Pyramid above the water”. It most often appears alongside 1700s Great Britain, Acropolis of Athens, Against The Grain.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 13, 2023
  • Last seen: March 03, 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.

Conspiracies of Cognition, Conspiracies Of Emotion
January 13, 2023 · Original source
Some conspiracy theories center on finding anomalies in a narrative. For example, Oswald couldn’t have shot Kennedy, because the bullet came from the wrong direction. Or: the Egyptians couldn’t have built the Pyramids, because they required XYZ advanced technology. I like these because they feel straightforwardly about styles of processing evidence
Consider the pseudohistory claims I discuss in The Pyramid And The Garden. The Great Pyramid’s latitude in standard notation equals, to within seven decimal places, the speed of light in tens of millions of meters per second. In a strict sense, this is a one-in-a-million chance, although the post tries to explain why this might be less impressive than it sounds.
Inline links: The Pyramid And The Garden
So the evidence in favor of “aliens who knew the speed of light built the Great Pyramid” is that it would explain this otherwise baffling coincidence. The evidence against is everything else we know about history, archaeology, architecture, and common sense. Why would superadvanced aliens have visited Earth, created one primitive stone structure, and left without doing anything else? Why does the Great Pyramid look so much like other Egyptian pyramids, and fit into our narrative of Egyptian history so well? What about marks on the Great Pyramid suggesting it was made with primitive tools? Et cetera.
Against Ice Age Civilizations
March 03, 2023 · Original source
The top 80m of the Great Pyramid would rise above the waterline, forming a little island. The part of the Pyramid above the water would still be taller than the entire Leaning Tower of Pisa. It would be pretty hard to miss!
0.5% chance we ever find something demonstrating equal or greater architectural advancement to the Great Pyramid, dating from before 11,000 BC.