Podcast Episodes

Mantic Monday 10/30/23

Manifest || Manifold.Love || Eyeless in Gaza

Last month, the Lighthaven convention center in Berkeley hosted Manifest, the first conference for predi…

2 years, 9 months ago

My Left Kidney

A person has two kidneys; one advises him to do good and one advises him to do evil. And it stands to reason that the one advising him to do good is…

2 years, 10 months ago

Impact Market Mini-Grants Results

Last March we (ACX and Manifold Markets) did a test run of an impact market, a novel way of running charitable grants. You can read the details at th…

2 years, 10 months ago

Pause For Thought: The AI Pause Debate

Last month, Ben West of the Center for Effective Altruism hosted a debate among long-termists, forecasters, and x-risk activists about pausing AI.…

2 years, 10 months ago

How Are The Gay Younger Brothers Doing?

In the 1990s, Blanchard and Bogaert proposed the Fraternal Birth Order Effect (FBOE). Men with more older brothers were more likely to be gay. “Th…

2 years, 10 months ago

Links For September 2023

[Remember, I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in …

2 years, 10 months ago

Book Review: The Alexander Romance

[if this looks familiar to you, see explanation here]

Sometimes scholars go on a search for “the historical Jesus”. They start with the Gospels, then…

2 years, 11 months ago

Highlights From The Comments On Elon Musk

[original post: Book Review: Elon Musk]

1: Comments From People With Personal Experience
2: ...Debating Musk's Intelligence
3: ...Debating Musk's Men…

2 years, 11 months ago

Book Review Contest 2023 Winners

Thanks to everyone who entered or voted in the book review contest. The winners are:

1st: The Educated Mind, reviewed by Brandon Hendrickson. Brand…

2 years, 11 months ago

Book Review: Elon Musk

Not the new one, sorry

This isn’t the new Musk biography everyone’s talking about. This is the 2015 Musk biography by Ashlee Vance. I started reading…

2 years, 11 months ago