Astral Codex Ten Podcast

The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's

Episodes

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Robin Hanson of Overcoming Bias more or less believes medicine doesn’t work [EDIT: see his response

[previously in series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] When that April with his sunlight fierce The rainy winter of t

Lumina, the genetically modified anti-tooth-decay bacterium that I wrote about in December, is back

Original post here. Table of contents below. I want to especially highlight three things. First, Saa

Links For April 2024

2024/4/12

[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence th

Many cities have regular Astral Codex Ten meetup groups. Twice a year, I try to advertise their u

Saar Wilf is an ex-Israeli entrepreneur. Since 2016, he’s been developing a new form of reasoning, m

It’s every blogger’s curse to return to the same arguments again and again. Matt Yglesias has to kee

I have data from two big Internet surveys, Less Wrong 2014 and Clearer Thinking 2023. Both asked que

Both the Atlantic’s critique of polyamory and my defense of it shared the same villain - “therapy cu

(inspired by Aid Airdrop Kills Five People In Gaza After Parachute Fails) https://www.astralcodexte

Mantic Monday 3/11/24

2024/3/20

Robots of prediction, predictions of robots https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mantic-monday-31124 

There are ACX meetup groups all over the world. Lots of people are vaguely interested, but don't try

The consensus says "biological race doesn't exist". But if race doesn't exist, how do we justify aff

I. What’s Going On We got 351 proposals for ACX Grants, but were only able to fund 34 of them. I’m n

Who Predicted 2023?

2024/3/15

Winners and takeaways from last year's prediction contest I. The Annual Forecasting Contest …i

All right, let’s do this again. Write a review of a book. There’s no official word count requirement

Links For February 2024

2024/3/10

[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence th

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/less-utilitarian-than-thou 

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/who-does-polygenic-selection-help