The Internet

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The Internet is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 29, 2022 and May 15, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “1990s stock photos representing The Internet”; “New technologies like the personal computer, the Internet, and the Human Genome Project were inspiring”. It most often appears alongside Reddit, /r/forcedbreeding, /r/forcedbreeding.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: July 29, 2022
• Last seen: May 15, 2024

Appears In

• Links For July
• Profile: The Far Out Initiative

Related Pages

• • Reddit (2 shared issues)
• • forcedbreeding (1 shared issues)
• • forcedbreeding (1 shared issues)
• • @the_megabase (1 shared issues)
• • A Pan-Species Welfare State (1 shared issues)
• • ACX Grantees (1 shared issues)
• • ACX MEETUP (1 shared issues)
• • Adrian D’Souza (1 shared issues)
• • Apimostinel (1 shared issues)
• • Aristotelian virtue theory (1 shared issues)
• • AutoRegex (1 shared issues)
• • Bamiyan Buddhas (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://abc7news.com/post/graffiti-in-san-francisco-tagging-vandalism-street/13801629/
• • https://imgur.com/a/Qlh7Y
• • https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5556650/the-internet-archives-last-ditch-effort-to-save-itself
• • https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over
• • https://time.com/6301552/weight-loss-drugs-compounding-pharmacies/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-rise-of-christianity
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-project-xanadu-the-internet
• • https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/an-ai-generated-reddit-post-fooled
• • https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10138907/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
• • https://www.modifynota.org/
• • https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/15gtbbp/tired_of_dating_apps_some_turn_to_dateme_docs_nyt/

Source Context

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.

Links For July

July 29, 2022 · Original source

15: 1990s stock photos representing The Internet. Here’s one example to whet your palate:

Inline links: 1990s stock photos representing The Internet

Profile: The Far Out Initiative

May 15, 2024 · Original source

Turn-of-the-21st-century Oxford was an exciting place. Derek Parfit was leading a renaissance in utilitarian thought. New technologies like the personal computer, the Internet, and the Human Genome Project were inspiring a new generation of transhumanists. Out of this milieu, philosophers like Nick Bostrom, Will MacAskill, and Toby Ord were laying the groundwork for what would become the rationalist and effective altruist movements. Utilitarians, they argued, were charged with relieving the suffering of the world as quickly and effectively as possible. Technology offered new opportunities to do this at scale. This could be ending poverty and curing diseases (if you were well-grounded in the present moment) or creating a superintelligence to lead us to a post-scarcity future (if you were feeling more ambitious).

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