Podcast Episodes

Your Book Review: The Laws of Trading

[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 be…

3 years, 1 month ago

Highlights From The Comments On British Economic Decline

People are talking about British economic decline.

Not just the decline from bestriding the world in the 19th century to today. A more recent, more p…

3 years, 1 month ago

The Extinction Tournament

This month’s big news in forecasting: the Forecasting Research Institute has released the results of the Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament (XPT)…

3 years, 1 month ago

Contra The xAI Alignment Plan

Elon Musk has a new AI company, xAI. I appreciate that he seems very concerned about alignment. From his Twitter Spaces discussion:

I think I hav…

3 years, 1 month ago

Your Book Review: The Educated Mind

[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 be…

3 years, 1 month ago

Contra The Social Model Of Disability

What is the Social Model Of Disability? I’ll let its proponents describe it in their own words (emphases and line breaks mine)

The Social Model Of Di…

3 years, 1 month ago

Why Match School And Student Rank?

Matt Yglesias’ five-year old son asks: why do we send the top students to the best colleges? Why not send the weakest students to the best colleges, …

3 years, 1 month ago

Your Book Review: Secret Government

Finalist #8 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 anonym…

3 years, 1 month ago

Links For July 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 …

3 years, 1 month ago

Tales Of Takeover In CCF-World

Machine Alignment Monday, 7/3/2023

Tom Davidson’s Compute-Centric Framework report forecasts a continuous but fast AI takeoff, where people hand cont…

3 years, 1 month ago