Podcast Episodes

Your Review: Islamic Geometric Patterns In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

[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…

1 year, 1 month ago

Book Review: Arguments About Aborigines

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A thought I had throughout reading L.R. Hiatt’s Arguments About Aborigines was: What are anthropologists even doing?

The book recounts two centur…

1 year, 1 month ago

Your Review: Of Mice, Mechanisms, and Dementia

[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…

1 year, 1 month ago

Practically-A-Book Review: Byrnes on Trance

Steven Byrnes is a physicist/AI researcher/amateur neuroscientist; needless to say, he blogs on Less Wrong. I finally got around to reading his 2024 …

1 year, 1 month ago

Now I Really Won That AI Bet

In June 2022, I bet a commenter $100 that AI would master image compositionality by June 2025.

DALL-E2 had just come out, showcasing the potent…

1 year, 1 month ago

Your Review: School

[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. It was origi…

1 year, 1 month ago

Highlights From The Comments On Missing Heritability

[Original thread here: Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know]

1: Comments From People Named In The Post
2: Very Long Comments From…

1 year, 1 month ago

Links For July 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…

1 year, 1 month ago

Contra Skolnick On Schizophrenia Microbes

Stephen Skolnick is a gut microbiome expert blogging at Eat Shit And Prosper. His most recent post argues that contra the psychiatric consensus, schi…

1 year, 1 month ago

Your Review: Alpha School

[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…

1 year, 1 month ago