Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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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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Your Review: The Russo-Ukrainian War
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posti...
Sources Say Bay Area House Party
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/sources-say-bay-area-house-party
[previously in series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Something is off abou...
Your Review: Project Xanadu - The Internet That Might Have Been
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posti...
Defining Defending Democracy: Contra The Election Winner Argument
Someone argues that Donald Trump threatens democracy, maybe because he’s asserting authority against the judiciary or the media or the NGOs. Someone e...
Your Review: The Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Hypothesis
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posti...
Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
I.
Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Machine Intelligence Research Institute is the original AI safety org. But the original isn’t always the best - how is Me...
Your Review: Participation in Phase I Clinical Pharmaceutical Research
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posti...
Links For September 2025
[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links...
What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful Of Him?
"You made him lower than the angels for a short time..."
God: …and the math results we’re seeing are nothing short of incredible. This Terry Tao...
Open Letter To The NIH
You can sign the letter here.
The Trump administration has been retaliating against its critics, and people and groups with business before the...
In Search Of AI Psychosis
AI psychosis (NYT, PsychologyToday) is an apparent phenomenon where people go crazy after talking to chatbots too much. There are some high-profile a...
Your Review: Ollantay
Finalist #9 in the Review Contest
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous u...
My Responses To Three Concerns From The Embryo Selection Post
[original post here]
#1: Isn’t it possible that embryos are alive, or have personhood, or are moral patients? Most IVF involves getting many em...
Your Review: Dating Men In The Bay Area
Finalist #8 in the Review Contest
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous u...
In Defense Of The Amyloid Hypothesis
A guest post by David Schneider-Joseph
The “amyloid hypothesis” says that Alzheimer’s is caused by accumulation of the peptide amyloid-β. It’s t...
Highlights From The Comments On Liberalism And Communities
[Original post: Should Strong Gods Bet On GDP?]
1: Comments About The Theory 2: Comments About Specific Communities
3: Other Comments
Your Review: My Father’s Instant Mashed Potatoes
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posti...
Should Strong Gods Bet On GDP?
Slightly contra Fukuyama on liberal communities
Francis Fukuyama is on Substack; last month he wrote Liberalism Needs Community. As always, read...
Your Review: Joan of Arc
Finalist #6 in the Review Contest
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous u...
Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection
[see footnote 4 for conflicts of interest]
In 2021, Genomic Prediction announced the first polygenically selected baby.
When a couple use...
My Heart Of Hearts
Since 2/3 of these are about Gaza, we’ll start there. And since there’s so much virtue-signaling and luxury-believing going around these days, I assur...
Your Review: The Astral Codex Ten Commentariat (“Why Do We Suck?”)
Jul 26, 2025
Finalist #5 in the Review Contest
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will...
Apply For An ACX Grant (2025)
We’re running another ACX Grants round!
If you already know what this is and just want to apply for a grant, use the form here (should take 15 -...
Press Any Key For Bay Area House Party
[previously in series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
It is eerily silent in San Francisco tonight. Since Mayor Lurie's crackdown, the usual drug hawke...
Your Review: Islamic Geometric Patterns In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posti...
Book Review: Arguments About Aborigines
I.
A thought I had throughout reading L.R. Hiatt’s Arguments About Aborigines was: What are anthropologists even doing?
The book recounts...
Your Review: Of Mice, Mechanisms, and Dementia
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posti...
Practically-A-Book Review: Byrnes on Trance
Steven Byrnes is a physicist/AI researcher/amateur neuroscientist; needless to say, he blogs on Less Wrong. I finally got around to reading his 2024 s...
Now I Really Won That AI Bet
In June 2022, I bet a commenter $100 that AI would master image compositionality by June 2025.
DALL-E2 had just come out, showcasing the potenti...
Your Review: School
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. It was origin...
Highlights From The Comments On Missing Heritability
[Original thread here: Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know]
1: Comments From People Named In The Post
2: Very Long C...
Links For July 2025
[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links...
Contra Skolnick On Schizophrenia Microbes
Stephen Skolnick is a gut microbiome expert blogging at Eat Shit And Prosper. His most recent post argues that contra the psychiatric consensus, schiz...
Your Review: Alpha School
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posti...
Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
The mid-20th century was the golden age of nurture. Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the spirit of the ‘60s convinced most experts that parents, peers...
Open Questions For Future ACX Grants Rounds
Related to: ACX Grants 1-3 Year Updates
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-questions-for-future-acx-grants
ACX Grants 1-3 Year Updates
The first cohort of ACX Grants was announced in late 2021, the second in early 2024. In 2022, I posted one-year updates for the first cohort. Now, as...
The Claude Bliss Attractor
This is a reported phenomenon where if two copies of Claude talk to each other, they end up spiraling into rapturous discussion of spiritual bliss, B...
"But" vs. "Yes, But"
This is another heuristic from the same place as If It’s Worth Your Time To Lie, It’s Worth My Time To Correct You.
If someone proves you are a...
If It's Worth Your Time To Lie, It's Worth My Time To Correct It
People don’t like nitpickers. “He literally did the WELL AKTUALLY!” If you say Joe Criminal committed ten murders and five rapes, and I object that it...