Podcast Episodes

Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh

Finalist #4 in the Book Review Contest

[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonym…

11 hours ago

Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident

[Original here. Like a Highlights From The Comments post, but including discussion from around the Internet.]

Roon is an OpenAI researcher whose pop…

11 hours ago

Links For July 2026 (Part 2)

[continued from Part 1 here. I haven't independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or thr…

11 hours ago

Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine

People act like the replication crisis has discredited psychology, that the field is now widely agreed to be a sham, that it can be uncontroversially…

11 hours ago

The Hugging Face Incident

You've probably heard about this one by now. If not, you can get up to speed with OpenAI's statement, 

The story: OpenAI was testing an unreleased AI…

12 hours ago

Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan

[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I'll be…

12 hours ago

Links For July 2026 (Part 1)

[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…

1 week, 3 days ago

Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness

Cassie Pritchard, on Twitter:

I get why so many liberals are fundamentally disdainful of democracy these days—it's because liberalism is exhausted. …

1 week, 3 days ago

Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures

Finalist #2 in the Book Review Contest

[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonym…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Against "Stochastic Terrorism"

"Stochastic terrorism" is the idea that if you spread fear and mistrust against a target, then eventually people will commit violence against that ta…

3 weeks, 3 days ago