Astral Codex Ten

Oracle

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Oracle

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Oracle is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 18, 2023 and January 13, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Levchin and his engineers were wrestling with a difficult problem involving the Oracle database they were using”; “OpenAI ten trillion dollars to invest in Oracle conditional on Oracle investing in Broadcom”. It most often appears alongside OpenAI, 787, adderallposting.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: September 18, 2023
  • Last seen: January 13, 2026

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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.

Highlights From The Comments On Elon Musk
September 18, 2023 · Original source
And yet, Levchin began to marvel at the counterexamples [to his generally low opinion of Musk], such as when Musk astounded him by knowing things. At one point, Levchin and his engineers were wrestling with a difficult problem involving the Oracle database they were using. Musk poked his head in the room, and even though his expertise was with Windows and not Oracle, immediately figured out the context of the conversation, gave a precise and technical answer, and walked out without waiting for confirmation. Levchin and his team went back to their Oracle manuals and looked up what Musk had described. "One by one, we all said, 'S**t, he's right," Levchin recalled. "Elon will say crazy stuff, but every once in a while he'll surprise you by knowing way more than you do about your own specialty. I think a huge part of the way he motivates people are these displays of sharpness, which people just don't expect from him, because they mistake him for a bullsh***er or goofball."
SOTA On Bay Area House Party
January 13, 2026 · Original source
“Cause, uh, NVIDIA gave OpenAI ten trillion dollars to invest in Oracle conditional on Oracle investing in Broadcom conditional on Broadcom funding the Series A of a vehicle that buys OpenAI stock in exchange for OpenAI backstopping AMD investing ten trillion dollars into us, and every company in the chain had its stock go up 80% on the news, but if our valuation goes down even for one second then it crashes the global economy. And I’m sure I can solve this eventually, but just, uh, don’t let anybody involved in the global economy hear about this until then, okay?”