The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's
[Original posts: Contra The Atlantic On Polyamory (subscriber only), You Don’t Hate Polyamory, Yo
AI forecasters come of age / Prediction market reality TV dating show? / OpenAI's Sora https://www.a
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/x-fact-check-does-gender-integration
Libertarians don’t really have their own holiday. Communists have May Day. The woke have MLK’s birth
I. Sam Altman wants $7 trillion. In one sense, this isn’t news. Everyone wants $7 trillion. I want $
Thanks to everyone who participated in ACX Grants, whether as an applicant, an evaluator, or a fu
We’ve been gradually working our way through the conversation around E. Fuller Torrey’s concerns abo
I. Yesterday I criticized The Atlantic’s recent invective against polyamory (subscriber-only post, s
Famous schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey recently wrote a paper trying to cast doubt on whet
I. Recently Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard over plagiarism accusations and a fumbled
Election problems // Trump odds // AI worlds https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mantic-monday-12924
I. Everyone knows politics makes people crazy. But what kind of crazy? Which page of the DSM is it o
E. Fuller Torrey recently published a journal article trying to cast doubt on the commonly-accepted
Machine Alignment Monday 1/22/24 Business Insider: Larry Page Once Called Elon Musk A “Specieist”:
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Does it matter if COVID was a lab leak? Here’s an argument against: not many people still argue that
Machine Alignment Monday 1/15/24 A sleeper agent is an AI that acts innocuous until it gets some tri
[original post: Does Capitalism Beat Charity?] 1: Comments Where I Want To Reiterate That I’m In Nea
Can blob fish dance ballet under diagonally fried cucumbers made of dust storms? AIs sometimes lie.