US military
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US military is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 15, 2022 and September 28, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “current relationship between the US military and its defense contractors”; “by the grace of the US military and extraterrestrials”. It most often appears alongside Amazon, FTX, 2020 election.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 15, 2022
- Last seen: September 28, 2023
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- Amazon (2 shared issues)
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- FTX (2 shared issues)
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- 2020 election (1 shared issues)
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- @eigenrobot (1 shared issues)
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- @jeremychrysler (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Mastroianni (1 shared issues)
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- Adversarial examples (1 shared issues)
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- Aella (1 shared issues)
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- aella.ai (1 shared issues)
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- aella.ai (1 shared issues)
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- AI (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.
Once an impact certificate marketplace is established, decisions of final oracular funders will determine whether savvy private investors get millions of dollars or not. That means that savvy private investors - who are very good at influencing things! who might have entire departments whose whole job it is to influence other large savvy organizations! - will want to gain power over organizations like Future Fund and OpenPhil and influence their grantmaking. A worst-case scenario for this might look like the current relationship between the US military and its defense contractors, where outright bribery is banned but the contractors use many other forms of soft influence to sway military decision-makers.
45: Romana Didulo mixes sovereign citizenship, QAnon, and messianism in her claim to be Queen of Canada, by the grace of the US military and extraterrestrials; her followers (30 who literally follow her around, 30,000 on social media)considered dangerous. I think this is an especially interesting case for theorists of religion - the James Strang to the original Q’s Joseph Smith. The cult deficit must have something to do with the channeling of religious feeling into politics, and the difficulty of having political “unobservables” in the sense that God and angels are unobservable. But with sufficient paranoia, everything becomes unobservable. We will have schisms over the true nature of the Senate; crusades will be fought over which amendments are in the Constitution; martyrs will go willingly to their deaths over how many pages are in the Inflation Reduction Act. This will be bad, of course - but sociologically fascinating.
Inline links: Romana Didulo, cult deficit