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...
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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 1,191 episodesThe 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...
Open Questions On Open Weights
Last month, some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies signed an open letter supporting open-weights AI. Open weights AI is like open-source...
The Beauty Of Settled Science
Commenters convinced me I made a subtle mis-step in my framing of Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine . My framing emphasized that social pri...
Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top?
Superforecasting is the art/science/sport of predicting the future - for example, who will win elections, which countries will fight wars, w...
Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh
Finalist #4 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 Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident
[Original here . Like a Highlights From The Comments post, but including discussion from around the Internet.] Roon is an OpenAI researcher...
Links For July 2026 (Part 2)
[continued from Part 1 here . I haven't independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around t...
Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine
People act like the replication crisis has discredited psychology, that the field is now widely agreed to be a sham, that it can be uncontro...
The Hugging Face Incident
You've probably heard about this one by now. If not, you can get up to speed with OpenAI's statement, The story: OpenAI was testing an unrel...
Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan
[ 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...
Links For July 2026 (Part 1)
[I haven't independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in e...
Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness
Cassie Pritchard, on Twitter : I get why so many liberals are fundamentally disdainful of democracy these days—it's because liberalism is ex...
Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
Finalist #2 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...
Against "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...