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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[Original posts: Contra The Atlantic On Polyamory (subscriber only), You Don’t Hate Polyamory, Yo

Mantic Monday 2/19/24

2024/3/1

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 

Love And Liberty

2024/2/16

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 $

ACX Grants Results 2024

2024/2/16

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

Seems Like Targeting

2024/2/9

I. Recently Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard over plagiarism accusations and a fumbled

Mantic Monday 1/29/24

2024/2/9

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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Links For January 2024

2024/1/22

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

Does it matter if COVID was a lab leak? Here’s an argument against: not many people still argue that

AI Sleeper Agents

2024/1/20

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

The Road To Honest AI

2024/1/14

Can blob fish dance ballet under diagonally fried cucumbers made of dust storms? AIs sometimes lie.