UNICEF
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UNICEF is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 09, 2021 and May 04, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Henry Labouisse won a Nobel Prize for his work in UNICEF”; “Millions of people competing to praise UNICEF”. It most often appears alongside Eliezer Yudkowsky, 1000, 1200.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 09, 2021
- Last seen: May 04, 2022
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- Eliezer Yudkowsky (2 shared issues)
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- 1000 (1 shared issues)
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- 1200 (1 shared issues)
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- 1400 (1 shared issues)
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- 1650 (1 shared issues)
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- 400 AD (1 shared issues)
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- 700 (1 shared issues)
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- Aage Bohr (1 shared issues)
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- Abanindranath Tagore (1 shared issues)
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- Aldous Huxley (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- Amida Buddha (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.
Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize. Their daughter Irene Curie also won a Nobel in chemistry. Their other daughter, Eve Curie, is described on her Wikipedia page as "the only member of her family who did not win a Nobel Prize" - but her husband, Henry Labouisse, did win a Nobel Prize (Peace, for his work in UNICEF). Marie and Pierre's granddaughter, Helene Joliot-Curie, is a professor of nuclear physics and former president of the French Rationalist Union; their grandson Pierre Joliot-Curie is a biology professor and Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research.
“No, you don’t understand. This is just the first step. Once we make it super-big, we’ll introduce other things into the algorithm. Charities. Political causes. We’ll have millions of people competing to praise UNICEF in order to get that next million-dollar ViraCoin drop. If you think about it, all problems are caused by lack of awareness. We’re an at-scale solution to awareness. Solve that, and you solve poverty, inequality, racism…”