Podcast Episodes

SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story

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My ex-girlfriend has a weird relationship to reality. Her actions ripple out into the world more heavily than other people's. She finds herself at…

1 year, 10 months ago

Triple Tragedy And Thankful Theory

I accept guest posts from certain people, especially past Book Review Contest winners. Earlier this year, I published Daniel Böttger’s essay Conscio…

1 year, 10 months ago

Against The Cultural Christianity Argument

The "cultural Christianity" argument says that atheists might not like Christianity, but they like a culture which depends on Christianity. They like…

1 year, 10 months ago

Preliminary Milei Report Card

How is Javier Milei, the new-ish libertarian president of Argentina doing?

According to right-wing sources, he’s doing amazing, inflation is vanquish…

1 year, 10 months ago

How Often Do Men Think About Rome?

Exegi monumentum aere perennius

There’s a Twitter meme on how men constantly think about the Roman Empire. Some feminist friends objected that women …

1 year, 10 months ago

Your Book Review: The Ballad of the White Horse

Finalist #14 in the Book Review Contest

[This is one of the finalists in the 2024 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain…

1 year, 10 months ago

Sakana, Strawberry, and Scary AI

Sakana (website, paper) is supposed to be “an AI scientist”. Since it can’t access the physical world, it can only do computer science. Its human …

1 year, 10 months ago

Mantic Monday 9/16/24

Probably No Superintelligent Forecaster Yet

FiveThirtyNine (ha ha) is a new forecasting AI that purports to be “superintelligent”, ie able to be…

1 year, 10 months ago

Your Book Review: Nine Lives

Finalist #13 in the Book Review Contest

[This is one of the finalists in the 2024 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anony…

1 year, 10 months ago

Links For September 2024

[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, 10 months ago