Podcast Episodes

Who Does Polygenic Selection Help?

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/who-does-polygenic-selection-help 

2 years, 5 months ago

Highlights From The Comments On Polyamory

[Original posts: Contra The Atlantic On Polyamory (subscriber only), You Don’t Hate Polyamory, You Hate People Who Write Books]

1: Comments I Can …

2 years, 6 months ago

Mantic Monday 2/19/24

AI forecasters come of age / Prediction market reality TV dating show? / OpenAI's Sora

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mantic-monday-21924 

2 years, 6 months ago

X Fact Check: Does Gender Integration Moderate Politics?

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/x-fact-check-does-gender-integration 

2 years, 6 months ago

Love And Liberty

Libertarians don’t really have their own holiday. Communists have May Day. The woke have MLK’s birthday. Nationalists have July 4th or their local eq…

2 years, 6 months ago

Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion

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Sam Altman wants $7 trillion.

In one sense, this isn’t news. Everyone wants $7 trillion. I want $7 trillion. I’m not going to get it, and Sam Altm…

2 years, 6 months ago

ACX Grants Results 2024

Thanks to everyone who participated in ACX Grants, whether as an applicant, an evaluator, or a funder.

The best part of ACX Grants is telling the …

2 years, 6 months ago

Evolution Explains Polygenic Structure

We’ve been gradually working our way through the conversation around E. Fuller Torrey’s concerns about schizophrenia genetics - last week we had It’s…

2 years, 6 months ago

You Don't Hate Polyamory, You Hate People Who Write Books

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Yesterday I criticized The Atlantic’s recent invective against polyamory (subscriber-only post, sorry). Today I want to zoom away from the specifi…

2 years, 6 months ago

It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic

Famous schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey recently wrote a paper trying to cast doubt on whether schizophrenia is really genetic. His exact ar…

2 years, 6 months ago