Jupiter
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Jupiter is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 07, 2023 and October 17, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “an asteroid named after her somewhere between Mars and Jupiter”; “a Matrioshka brain the size of Jupiter”; “56% know the biggest planet (Jupiter)“. It most often appears alongside Einstein, Shakespeare, United States.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: February 07, 2023
- Last seen: October 17, 2024
Appears In
- Henrietta Lacks Seems Like A Nice Person, But Not A Scientific Hero
- Most Technologies Aren’t Races
- A Theoretical “Case Against Education”
- Book Review: Deep Utopia
Related Pages
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- Einstein (3 shared issues)
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- Shakespeare (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- 1984 (1 shared issues)
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- 1984 Calendar Meme (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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- Ahab (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- Airstrip One (1 shared issues)
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- Alan Turing (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.
Well, her life and legacy are now successfully being acknowledged and celebrated. Congress passed a resolution honoring Lacks in 1997. She has received honorary degrees, the WHO’s Director General Award, and membership in the National Women’s Hall Of Fame. Atlanta declared October 11 “Henrietta Lacks Day”. There is a high school named after her in Washington, a plaza named after her in Virginia, and an asteroid named after her somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. In 2014, at the 9th annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, the dean of Johns Hopkins announced the college’s new research building would be named after Lacks, saying:
“Wouldn’t Joe Biden overregulate small business?” There won’t be small business! If you want to build a customized personal utopian megastructure, you won’t hire a small business, you’ll just say “AI, build me a customized personal utopian megastructure” and it will materialize in front of you. Probably you should avoid doing this in a star system someone else owns, but there will be enough star systems to go around. If people insist on having an economy for old time’s sake, you can just build a Matrioshka brain the size of Jupiter, ask it which policies are good for the economy, then do those ones.
“Wouldn’t Mark Zuckerberg perpetuate structural racism?” You will be able to change your race, age, gender, species, and state of matter at will. Nobody will even remember what race you were. If for some reason the glowing clouds of plasma that used to be black people have smaller customized personal utopian megastructures than the glowing clouds of plasma that used to be white people, you can ask the brain the size of Jupiter how to solve it, and it will tell you (I bet it involves using slightly different euphemisms for things, that’s always been the answer so far).
And yeah, that “they’re not actively a sadist” clause is doing a lot of work. I want whoever rules the post-singularity future to have enough decency to avoid ruining it, and to take the Jupiter-sized brain’s advice when it has some. I think any of Xi, Biden, or Zuckerberg meet this low bar. There are some ideologues and terrible people who don’t, but they seem far away from the cutting edge of AI.
56% know the biggest planet (Jupiter)
(All of the above goes for appreciating the profound truths of Science too. We assume that all worthwhile science has already been discovered - or that everything left requires a particle accelerator the size of the Milky Way plus an AI with a brain the size of Jupiter to interpret the results. You will not be asked to help, but you can still try to contemplate the already-discovered truths and bask in their elegance.)