Sulla
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Sulla is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 20, 2021 and September 24, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the dictator Sulla executed scholar-politician Quintus Valerius Soranus”; “dictator Sulla executed scholar-politician Quintus Valerius Soranus”; “I was thinking about Sulla”. It most often appears alongside Anki, 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 20, 2021
- Last seen: September 24, 2024
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- Anki (2 shared issues)
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- 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel (1 shared issues)
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- A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry (1 shared issues)
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- ACOU (1 shared issues)
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- ACOUP (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Survey Results (1 shared issues)
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- Age of Empires 2 (1 shared issues)
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- AI X-Risk Research Podcast (1 shared issues)
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- Alignment Research Center (1 shared issues)
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- Amor (1 shared issues)
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- Andrew Yang (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.
29: In 82 BC, the dictator Sulla executed scholar-politician Quintus Valerius Soranus for publicly revealing the secret true name of Rome. Wait, there was a secret true name of Rome? Apparently yes, and it had to never be revealed, lest Rome’s enemies learn it and gain spiritual power over the city. The execution must have worked, because scholars today still don’t know what Rome’s secret true name was. Irresponsible speculation includes Maia (via astronomical correspondence), Amor (via wordplay), Valentia (via multilingual pun), and Hirpa (via a long chain of scholarly/historical speculation).
I was thinking about Sulla.