Podcast Episodes

Your Review: The Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Hypothesis

[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be post…

11 months ago

Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

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Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Machine Intelligence Research Institute is the original AI safety org. But the original isn’t always the best - how is Mesopot…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Links For September 2025

[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…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Your Review: Participation in Phase I Clinical Pharmaceutical Research

[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be post…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful Of Him?

"You made him lower than the angels for a short time..."

God: …and the math results we’re seeing are nothing short of incredible. This Terry Tao gu…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Open Letter To The NIH

You can sign the letter here.

The Trump administration has been retaliating against its critics, and people and groups with business before the ad…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

In Search Of AI Psychosis

AI psychosis (NYT, PsychologyToday) is an apparent phenomenon where people go crazy after talking to chatbots too much. There are some high-profile …

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Your Review: Ollantay

Finalist #9 in the Review Contest

[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until …

1 year ago

My Responses To Three Concerns From The Embryo Selection Post

[original post here]

#1: Isn’t it possible that embryos are alive, or have personhood, or are moral patients? Most IVF involves getting many embryos…

1 year ago

Your Review: Dating Men In The Bay Area

Finalist #8 in the Review Contest

[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until …

1 year ago