Podcast Episodes

In Partial Grudging Defense Of Some Aspects Of Therapy Culture

Both the Atlantic’s critique of polyamory and my defense of it shared the same villain - “therapy culture”, the idea that you should prioritize “find…

2 years, 5 months ago

Verses On Five People Being Killed By A Falling Package Of Foreign Aid

(inspired by Aid Airdrop Kills Five People In Gaza After Parachute Fails)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/verses-on-five-people-being-killed 

2 years, 5 months ago

Mantic Monday 3/11/24

Robots of prediction, predictions of robots

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mantic-monday-31124 

2 years, 5 months ago

Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024 - Call For Organizers

There are ACX meetup groups all over the world. Lots of people are vaguely interested, but don't try them out until I make a big deal about it on the…

2 years, 5 months ago

How Should We Think About Race And "Lived Experience"?

The consensus says "biological race doesn't exist". But if race doesn't exist, how do we justify affirmative action, cultural appropriation, and all …

2 years, 5 months ago

ACX Grants Followup Impact Market

I. What’s Going On

We got 351 proposals for ACX Grants, but were only able to fund 34 of them. I’m not a professional grant evaluator and can’t guara…

2 years, 5 months ago

Who Predicted 2023?

Winners and takeaways from last year's prediction contest

I. The Annual Forecasting Contest

…is one of my favorite parts of this blog. I get a …

2 years, 5 months ago

Book Review Contest Rules 2024

All right, let’s do this again.

Write a review of a book. There’s no official word count requirement, but previous finalists and winners were often b…

2 years, 5 months ago

Links For February 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…

2 years, 5 months ago

Less Utilitarian Than Thou

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/less-utilitarian-than-thou 

2 years, 5 months ago