South Pole
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South Pole is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 13, 2023 and August 22, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The other answer is somewhere close to the South Pole”; “organizing the first British expeditions to reach the South Pole”. It most often appears alongside Abe Lincoln, AI alignment movement, Ambras.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 13, 2023
- Last seen: August 22, 2025
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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.
From that point, the tales of engineers who have interviewed with Musk run the gamut from torturous experiences to the sublime. He might ask one question or he might ask several. You can be sure, though, that he will roll out the Riddle: “You’re standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?” One answer to that is the North Pole, and most of the engineers get it right away. That’s when Musk will follow with “Where else could you be?” The other answer is somewhere close to the South Pole where, if you walk one mile south, the circumference of the Earth becomes one mile. Fewer engineers get this answer, and Musk will happily walk them through that riddle and others and cite any relevant equations during his explanations. He tends to care less about whether or not the person gets the answer than about how they describe the problem and their approach to solving it.
More well-known for bringing quinine to India and organizing the first British expeditions to reach the South Pole. But he also dabbled as a translator.