Michelangelo
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Michelangelo is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between October 10, 2022 and November 20, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Michelangelo-esque depictions of God”; “he is instead a creative genius, the Michelangelo of fake news. Just as Michelangelo took four years to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling”; “they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance”. It most often appears alongside America, Ukraine, AI.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: October 10, 2022
- Last seen: November 20, 2024
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Columbus Day
- Your Book Review: Real Raw News
- Altruism And Vitalism As Fellow Travelers
- How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?
Related Pages
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- America (3 shared issues)
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- Ukraine (3 shared issues)
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- AI (2 shared issues)
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- Bill Gates (2 shared issues)
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- Israel (2 shared issues)
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- Moon Landing (2 shared issues)
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- Renaissance (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- Scott (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- World War II (2 shared issues)
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- ImaginaryWarhammer (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.
I would quibble that Jesus as the Messiah is not one of Jews’ top objections to Christianity, which I think would be first that it flirts with polytheism (the Trinity), that it flirts with idolatry (icons + Michelangelo-esque depictions of God), and that it says you don’t need to follow the Law. Other sects of Judaism that have “just” posited a Messiah (eg the subset of Lubavitchers who think Rebbe Schneerson was the Messiah) have met much less resistance.
The articles of RRN are all the work of one Michael Baxter, and after enough time spent reading the site, one realizes that Baxter is no crank – he is instead a creative genius, the Michelangelo of fake news. Just as Michelangelo took four years to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Baxter has spent three and a half building his own elaborate world of plots, counterplots, and bloody, implacable justice.
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Human. This is “The Mourning Of Christ” by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (1515). This was the picture that people were most confident was human (they were right), but a few people protested and said that the anatomy was so wrong that it must be AI-generated. Sorry, I guess Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo just wasn’t very good at anatomy. Maybe that’s why Michelangelo had to dissect all those corpses.
Inline links: “The Mourning Of Christ”