Podcast Episodes

Links for August 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 …

3 years ago

Your Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

[This is one of the finalists in the 2023 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll…

3 years ago

More Memorable Passages From "The Man Without A Face"

Actual serious review here, Amazon link to the book here. These were just some extra parts that stuck out to me.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com…

3 years ago

Dictator Book Club: Putin

Review of Masha Gessen's "The Man Without A Face"

[previously in series: Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Xi]

I. Vladimir Putin’s Childhood As Metaphor For Life…

3 years ago

Meetups Everywhere Fall 2023 - Call For Organizers

You can find the meetup organizer volunteer form here. If you want to know if anyone has signed up to run a meetup for your city, you can view that h…

3 years ago

Mantic Monday 7/31/23: Room Temperature Superforecaster

Plus more CFTC, X, and UFOs

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mantic-monday-73123-room-temperature

3 years ago

Your Book Review: On the Marble Cliffs

Finalist #11 in the Book Review Contest

[This is one of the finalists in the 2023 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anony…

3 years ago

Bad Definitions Of "Democracy" And "Accountability" Shade Into Totalitarianism

Suppose there’s freedom of religion: everyone can choose what religion to practice. Is there some sense in which this is “undemocratic”? Would it be …

3 years ago

Highlights From The Comments On Social Model Of Disability

[original post: Contra The Social Model Of Disability]

Table Of Contents

1: Comments Defending The Social Model
2: Comments About The Social Model Be…

3 years, 1 month ago

We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned The Bitter Lesson

Machine Alignment Monday, 7/24/23

Intelligence explosion arguments don’t require Platonism. They just require intelligence to exist in the normal fuz…

3 years, 1 month ago