Astral Codex Ten

Avi Loeb

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Avi Loeb

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Avi Loeb is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 20, 2023 and August 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “One of those astronomers, Harvard professor Avi Loeb”; “SETI, and Avi Loeb’s work trying to recover anomalous meteorites”. It most often appears alongside 15 minute cities, 200 Concrete Problems In AI Interpretability, 2022 ACX Forecasting contest.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 20, 2023
  • Last seen: August 01, 2023

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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.

Links For April 2023
April 20, 2023 · Original source
34: A few years ago a weird object called Oumuamua entered the solar system and a few astronomers speculated in might have been an alien spacecraft (it’s since left). One of those astronomers, Harvard professor Avi Loeb, got access to Department of Defense data that he used to locate another weird interstellar visitor - a two-foot-long object that hit Earth in 2014 and landed (probably in fragments) in the ocean near New Guinea. He’s now gotten private funding for a submarine search team to look for pieces of the object on the New Guinea seafloor, although other scientists say his chances are low (he’ll be searching forty square miles of seafloor for weird rocks that might be no larger than a pebble and might not look much different from any other rock).
Inline links: another weird interstellar visitor, now gotten private funding
23: Room Temperature Superforecaster
August 01, 2023 · Original source
This covers literal UFOs, SETI, and Avi Loeb’s work trying to recover anomalous meteorites, plus any other way aliens might make themselves known to us in the next 27 years.
Inline links: Avi Loeb’s work trying to recover anomalous meteorites