Leo Szilard
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Leo Szilard is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 13, 2022 and September 03, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Leo Szilard joked that “Hungary” was a front for Martian spies”; ““Leo Szilard made the cobalt bomb,”“. It most often appears alongside Hitler, Holocaust, Teller.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 13, 2022
- Last seen: September 03, 2024
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- Hitler (2 shared issues)
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- Holocaust (2 shared issues)
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- Teller (2 shared issues)
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- von Neumann (2 shared issues)
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- World War I (2 shared issues)
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- 1890s (1 shared issues)
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- 1980s (1 shared issues)
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- Air Force One (1 shared issues)
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- Alan Turing (1 shared issues)
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- Albert Einstein (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- anal probing (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.
Technically he was born in Hungary. But we’ve already been through this. A few years ago I wrote about “The Martians” - a sudden spurt of Hungarian supergeniuses born around 1900. People low-key noticed this phenomenon almost as soon as it started, but it really became obvious during the Manhattan Project, when several of the project’s leading lights (including von Neumann) reconnected in the deserts of New Mexico c. 1940 and realized they’d gone to high school together in Budapest. Leo Szilard joked that “Hungary” was a front for Martian spies, and the group has been called “Martians” ever since..
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“All the good superweapons are invented by Jews. Einstein and Oppenheimer made the A-bomb. Teller and von Neumann made the H-bomb. Samuel Cohen made the neutron bomb, Leo Szilard made the cobalt bomb, et cetera. Even the world-destroying AIs are being invented by Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, et cetera.”