Kai
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Kai is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between September 18, 2023 and January 09, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “The list is … Kai”; “their nicknames are Kai and Lyra”; “Kai, you wouldn’t come out of your mother on your own”. It most often appears alongside Lyra, America, California.
Metadata
- Category: People
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: September 18, 2023
- Last seen: January 09, 2026
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Elon Musk
- In The Long Run, We’re All Dad
- Book Review: Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids
- Open Thread 397
- The Permanent Emergency
Related Pages
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- Lyra (4 shared issues)
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- Jeff Bezos (2 shared issues)
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- Scott (2 shared issues)
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- 787 (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- ACX survey (1 shared issues)
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- adderallposting (1 shared issues)
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- ADL (1 shared issues)
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- aerospace industry (1 shared issues)
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- AI x-risk (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
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.
No direct inline source block was recovered for this mention.
But I need some way to refer to them online, so their nicknames are Kai and Lyra.
Tooth decay isn’t the worst thing in the world. As victories go, this is a relatively minor one. I tell it to you only because it is ours. Our drop of water in a vast ocean of victories that have improved the lot of humankind on every continent, for as long as the species lasts. There is nothing that hammers this in like being a new father - nothing like seeing two tiny rudimentary week-old cognitive engines struggle not to fade into the entropic background. Kai, you wouldn’t come out of your mother on your own - the obstetrician used vacuum extraction to save your life. Neither of you was a great breastfeeder at first, and if we hadn’t had nurses and bottles and formula, you might not have made it. A few days after your birth, it rained two inches in fifty degree weather; if we didn’t have central heating and space heaters and warm blankets, who knows what would have happened? In 1800, about 50% of babies died before their fifth birthday. This statistic used to feel like a brute fact. Now I’m noticing all the little cracks that Death could creep in through, if we didn’t have our cornucopia of technologies and our team of vigilant pediatricians.
Inline links: vacuum extraction
No direct inline source block was recovered for this mention.
No direct inline source block was recovered for this mention.
No direct inline source block was recovered for this mention.