Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 12, 2021 and November 03, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Alexander Pope writes: Vice is a monster of such frightful mien”; ““Superior beings”, wrote Alexander Pope, “would show a Newton as we show an ape.”“. It most often appears alongside American Scholar, Buddhism, CBT-i.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 12, 2021
- Last seen: November 03, 2025
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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.
And you should do it soon. Alexander Pope writes:
Might a superintelligence do a non-pastiche, even improved version of my style, and use it to communicate important truths? What good would this be? Insofar as my style is good, it should use the good things that my style is pointing at; insofar as it is bad, it should jettison it. “Superior beings”, wrote Alexander Pope, “would show a Newton as we show an ape.” I don’t want to be an ape in some transhuman zoo, with people playing with models of me to see what bloggers were like back when everyone was stupid.