Peoria
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Peoria is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 18, 2024 and September 06, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “doesn’t play well in Peoria”; “an examination center in Peoria, Illinois”. It most often appears alongside MeToo, 21st century political dogmatism, @april.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 18, 2024
- Last seen: September 06, 2024
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- [[entities/concept/metoo|#MeToo]] (1 shared issues)
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- 21st century political dogmatism (1 shared issues)
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- @april (1 shared issues)
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- @somefoundersalt (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Advanced Tax (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- AI accelerationism (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Tabarrok (1 shared issues)
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- Anand Singh (1 shared issues)
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- Ann Williams (1 shared issues)
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- Aria Babu (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.
11: Poll: AI accelerationism (“e/acc”) has a negative 51% net favorability with the general public, putting it behind (eg) Scientology and Satanism. There’s no shame in this. But there is a little shame in how the e/accs are surprised and trying to nitpick the result. There could be a certain amount of coolness cred in wanting to sacrifice humanity to the Void Gods - but not if you get all huffy when you learn this doesn’t play well in Peoria.
The novel that would eventually be titled The Pale King went through many stages, starting with an early draft focused on an IRS agent so obsessed with viewing himself from a third person perspective that he stars in his own porno. This plotline receded, with the book converging on its eventual focus: a group of IRS agents travel to an examination center in Peoria, Illinois, 1985, where a battle takes place over the philosophical and technological future of the agency.
The plot: a group of IRS hires converge on an examination center in Peoria, Illinois, circa 1985. There’s the sense that once they’re there, things will start happening, but nothing really does. The chapters alternate between the 1985 story, character background, debate/discussion of the deeper philosophical meaning of the IRS, metanarrative written in the voice of 2005 David Foster Wallace, scraps of trivia/world building/slices-of-life.