Podcast Episodes

Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Defeats Most Proofs Of God's Existence

It feels like 2010 again - the bloggers are debating the proofs for the existence of God. I found these much less interesting after learning about M…

1 year, 5 months ago

Only About 40% Of The Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science

From the Commerce Department:

U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a database identifying over 3,400 grants, totalin…

1 year, 6 months ago

Deliberative Alignment, And The Spec

In the past day, Zvi has written about deliberative alignment, and OpenAI has updated their spec. This article was written before either of these and…

1 year, 6 months ago

1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals

As RFK Jr. fights to be confirmed in Congress, the rest of Trump’s health team is already taking shape.

1DaySooner is an ACX grantee organization tha…

1 year, 6 months ago

Money Saved By Canceling Programs Does Not Immediately Flow To The Best Possible Alternative

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PEPFAR - a Bush initiative to send cheap AIDS drugs to Africa - has saved millions of lives and is among the most successful foreign aid programs…

1 year, 6 months ago

Model City Monday 2/3/25

Prospera Declared Unconstitutional

The Honduras Supreme Court has declared charter cities, including Prospera, unconstitutional.

The background: in …

1 year, 6 months ago

Why Recurring Dream Themes?

An observant Jewish friend told me she has recurring dreams about being caught unprepared for Shabbat.

(Shabbat is the Jewish Sabbath, celebrated e…

1 year, 6 months ago

ACX Survey Results 2025

Thanks to the 5,975 people who took the 2025 Astral Codex Ten survey.

See the questions for the ACX survey

See the results from the ACX Survey (click…

1 year, 6 months ago

Everyone's A Based Post-Christian Vitalist Until The Grooming Gangs Show Up

Whenever I talk about charity, a type that I’ll call the “based post-Christian vitalist” shows up in the comments to tell me that I’ve got it all wro…

1 year, 6 months ago

Try The 2025 ACX/Metaculus Forecasting Contest

This is normally when I would announce the winners of the 2024 forecasting contest, but there are some complications and Metaculus has asked me to wa…

1 year, 6 months ago