The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's
Internet addiction may not be as bad as some other forms of addiction, but it’s more common (and mor
Recently we’ve gotten into discussions about artistic taste (see comments on AI Art Turing Test and
Like most people, Tom Wolfe didn’t like modern architecture. He wondered why we abandoned our patrim
Do longer prison sentences reduce crime? It seems obvious that they should. Even if they don’t deter
Suppose something important will happen at a certain unknown point. As someone approaches that point
Last month, I challenged 11,000 people to classify fifty pictures as either human art or AI-generate
In 1980, game theorist Robert Axelrod ran a famous Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament. He asked
The rise of Christianity is a great puzzle. In 40 AD, there were maybe a thousand Christians. Their
I. Polymarket (and prediction markets in general) had an amazing Election Night. They called states
[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence th
A red sun dawns over San Francisco. Juxtaposed against clouds and sea, it forms a patriotic tab
I. Time to own the libs! ACX joins such based heterodox thinkers as Curtis Yarvin, Nick Fuentes, R
[This is a guest post by Clara Collier. Clara is the editor of Asterisk Magazine.] Proposition 36 is
Tyler Cowen is an economics professor and blogger at Marginal Revolution. Patrick Collison is the bi
The Median Voter Theorem says that, given some reasonable assumptions, the candidate closest to t
Thanks to our local meetup groups for doing this! Quick lookup version: AUSTIN: Guide here BOSTON
What problem do we get after we've solved all other problems? I. Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom got
Okay, let’s do this! Link is here, should take about twenty minutes. I’ll close the form on Monda
Thanks to everyone who entered or voted in the book review contest. The winners are: 1st: Two Arms
I. My ex-girlfriend has a weird relationship to reality. Her actions ripple out into the world more
