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Impact Market Mini-Grants Update

Episode 801

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/impact-market-mini-grants-update

Impact markets are a charity analogy to private equity. Instead of prospectiv…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Against Ice Age Civilizations

Episode 800

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/against-ice-age-civilizations

There’s a good debate about this on the subreddit; see also Robin Hanson and Sam…

3 years, 5 months ago

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OpenAI's "Planning For AGI And Beyond"

Episode 799

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/openais-planning-for-agi-and-beyond

Planning For AGI And Beyond

Imagine ExxonMobil releases a statement on cli…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Highlights From The Comments On Geography Of Madness

Episode 798

Plus: A case for culture-bound mental disorder skepticism

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-geography

[Original …

3 years, 5 months ago

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Announcing Forecasting Impact Mini-Grants

Episode 797

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/announcing-forecasting-impact-mini

I still dream of running an ACX Grants round using impact certificates, but…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Book Review: The Geography Of Madness

Episode 796

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-geography-of-madness

Around the wide world, all cultures share a few key features. Anthropolog…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Grading My 2018 Predictions For 2023

Episode 795

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/grading-my-2018-predictions-for-2023

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of my old blog, in 2018, I made some p…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Episode 794

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/declining-sperm-count-much-more-than 

Is Sperm Count Declining?

People say it is.

Levine et al 2017 looks at 1…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Trying Again On Fideism

Episode 793

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trying-again-on-fideism

[apologies for an issue encountered when sending out this post; some of you may have go…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Contra Kavanagh On Fideism

Episode 792

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-kavanaugh-on-fideism

 

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I’ve been looking into the world of YouTube streamers; if you want to make…

3 years, 6 months ago

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