Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
A guest post by Lars Doucet Hi, this is Lars Doucet, author of the book review of Henry George's Progress and Poverty that won the first ACX...
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Astral Codex Ten Podcast
The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's just me reading Scott Alexander's blog posts.
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20 of 1,208 episodesThe Specter Of Neuralese
I. At Long Last, We Have Created Neuralese Recurrence, From The Classic Sci-Fi Novel "Don't Create Neuralese Recurrence" In the public debat...
Mysteries Of AI Generalization
I. Owain Evans In 2025, Owain Evans et al published a paper on "emergent misalignment" . They trained a previously-aligned AI to do one immo...
Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt
Finalist #9 in the Book Review Contest [ This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will rem...
AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA
This is a guest post by ACX grantee Josh Morrison of 1DaySooner . AI superforecasters are coming . Within a few years, the average person wi...
King Ludd
I. In the gods' great scramble for human followers, Nodens would seem to have lost decisively. We know him only from vague inscriptions at t...
Royce On San Francisco
These are all excerpts from Josiah Royce's 1886 book, A History Of California From Conquest In 1846 To The Second Vigilance Committee In San...
God Help Us, Let's Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques
The Story So Far Mechanistic interpretability is the science of "reading an AI's mind". Large language models are "grown, not built". Resear...
Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji
Finalist #8 in the Book Review Contest This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remai...
Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy
I am Daniel Böttger 1 . In 2023, my review of On The Marble Cliffs took second in the ACX book review contest, and Scott offered me the righ...
Nicholas Decker In Hell
I. Econblogger Nicholas Decker is not a fan of AI 2040 : One of the centerpieces of AI 2040 is the proposal that we pause the development of...
Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart's Translation Of Rabelais
Finalist #7 in the Book Review Contest [ This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will rem...
Highlights From The Comments On The Substack Religion Debate
[Original post: Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate ] Ben Smith writes : This post sure reads like participating in the obje...
Re: Re: Re: Pritchard On Liberal Happiness
In early July, Cassie Pritchard argued on Twitter that liberalism had failed; it bet the farm on economic progress making people happier, bu...
Your Book Review: A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands
[ 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...
Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate
I. Matthew Adelstein (aka Bentham's Bulldog) and Richard Chappell debate the existence of God . So do JP Andrew , Benjamin Tettu , Sangwon L...
Your Book Review: The Escape Artist
[ 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 Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night
Since the beginning of time, mankind has yearned to drink a cup of coffee at 5 PM and go to sleep at 10. But now there's an entire scientifi...
The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party
[previously in series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ] Paul Graham once said that every city sends a message. New York says you should m...
MacGregor The Bridge Builder
Old Scottish joke: A man at the bar is complaining: "You see that bridge there? I built it with my own hands! But do they call me 'MacGregor...