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...
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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 1,200 episodesAbsurd 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...
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...