Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
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20 of 1,177 episodesAgainst "Stochastic Terrorism"
"Stochastic terrorism" is the idea that if you spread fear and mistrust against a target, then eventually people will commit violence agains...
AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State
This was one of the most common objections to Plan A . The plan proposes AI chip regulation to ensure that both China and America know where...
Introducing Plan A
A Is For America It's increasingly clear that nobody has a plan for if this AI thing turns out to be real. Some people have suggestions , bu...
Your Book Review: The Book Of Abraham
[ This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is don...
The AI Superforecasters Are Here
The annual prediction market conference was earlier this month. This was the year prediction markets went from an obscure hobby to a multi-b...
Chip Off The Old Block
I. Having kids has given me new appreciation for old poetry. The first time I read Song of Hiawatha, I skimmed over the part in Book 3 where...
The Metaculus Threat To Democracy Index
In recent posts on Trump and dictatorship , people have asked me - how do you know you're not suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome? I t...
Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info?
The most controversial part of last week's article on the Midjourney ultrasound scanner was medical experts' recommendation against whole-bo...
Preliminary Thoughts On The Midjourney Scanner
like that, except from a medium-sized startup instead of a tech giant. Earlier today, they announced a pivot to medical scanners. The new Mi...
Waiting For The Miracle
In 1917, three children in Fatima, Portugal claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary. They promised she would perform a miracle on a certain day...
Never Cross a River Four Feet Deep on Average
Guest post by Alexander "Sasha" Putilin [This is a guest post by 2024 ACX grantee Sasha Putilin. I encourage any ACX grantees who are intere...
My AI Opinions
I recently had a minor spat over someone misinterpreting my AI beliefs (see section marked "Update" at the bottom here ), so I thought I wou...
Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination
The philosophers of the Frankfurt School practiced a technique called negative dialectics, where concepts are defined as much by what you ca...
Use AI This Election
I'm not saying AI is superintelligent or can decide better than you can. I'm saying that if you - like me - spend an hour or so doing resear...
New Paradigms Won't Save You
One popular objection to AI concerns is to declare that LLMs can never be AGI. You need a "new paradigm". Therefore, AGI is so far in the fu...
The Types Of Candidate You Find In The California Gubernatorial Race
Sorry, I give up. In past elections, I've covered every single candidate for governor of California, from the incumbents all the way down to...
The Sigmoids Won't Save You
"All exponentials eventually become sigmoids" is an annoying AI talking point. If someone presents a graph like this… ….and points out that...
Nostalgebraist's Hydrogen Jukeboxes
In conclusion , the only good theory of taste is Nostalgebraist's. He wrote a post called Hydrogen Jukeboxes , analyzing the literary output...
Three Model Organisms For Taste
(a continuation of yesterday's post ) Reddit Vexillology Vexillology is the c. elegans of aesthetics - the simplest model organism that lets...