Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 05, 2025 and May 29, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Secretary of State Marco Rubio has granted PEPFAR a waiver”; “I am not recommending that people kill … Marco Rubio”; “Marco Rubio’s claim that it was mostly waste”. It most often appears alongside Elon Musk, PEPFAR, ACX Grants.

Metadata

• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: March 05, 2025
• Last seen: May 29, 2025

Appears In

• Open Thread 371.5
• Sorry, I Still Think MR Is Wrong About USAID

Related Pages

• • Elon Musk (2 shared issues)
• • PEPFAR (2 shared issues)
• • ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
• • ACX subreddit (1 shared issues)
• • Africa (1 shared issues)
• • AIDS (1 shared issues)
• • Ancient Chinese (1 shared issues)
• • Bryan Caplan (1 shared issues)
• • Caritas Nigeria (1 shared issues)
• • Catholic Relief Services (1 shared issues)
• • Center for Global Development (1 shared issues)
• • Congress (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

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.

Open Thread 371.5

March 05, 2025 · Original source

1: Pro-PEPFAR protest in DC this Friday at 12 noon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has granted PEPFAR a waiver to continue operating, but Musk seems to be illegally refusing to honor it; the protest is urging Rubio to enforce his decision. Organizers include Catholicism blogger Leah Sargent (some of you probably know her by her maiden name Libresco) and various EAs; excited to see the religious and non-religious pro-charity folks working together. You can find more information here and the Facebook event here.

Inline links: here, here

Sorry, I Still Think MR Is Wrong About USAID

May 29, 2025 · Original source

I want to make it clear: I am not recommending that people kill Donald Trump or Marco Rubio. I am recommending that God consider sending them to Hell. I think this is a moderate compromise proposal, endorsed by leading Hell experts2.

Inline links: endorsed by leading Hell experts, 2

This is why I found Tyler’s post saying that he was “fact checking” Marco Rubio’s claim that it was mostly waste, and indeed found that 75-90% “went to third-parties” and that “not all third parties are wasteful” but “USAID defenders [aren’t] keen to deal with such estimates” to provide such negative value. It looks like it’s offering this much-needed clarity, but in fact it’s the opposite.

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• Events: P
• Open Thread 371.5
• People: L
• People: M
• Sorry, I Still Think MR Is Wrong About USAID