Podcast Episodes

Against "There Are Two X-Wing Parties"

Episode 671

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/against-there-are-two-x-wing-parties

One of my least favorite political tropes is the claim that "America has …

4 years, 2 months ago

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Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster?

Episode 670

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/which-party-has-gotten-more-extreme

Matt Yglesias has written a couple of posts (1, 2) on the subject of th…

4 years, 2 months ago

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My Bet: AI Size Solves Flubs

Episode 669

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/my-bet-ai-size-solves-flubs?s=r

On A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows, I described how D…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Your Book Review: The Castrato

Episode 668

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-castrato

[This is one of the finalists in the 2022 book review contest. It’s not by me - …

4 years, 2 months ago

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Birth Order Effects: Nature vs. Nurture

Episode 667

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/birth-order-effects-nature-vs-nurture

Introduction

Thanks to everyone who waited two years for me to get aroun…

4 years, 3 months ago

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A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows

Episode 666

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-asking-robots-to-design

I love stained glass. Not so much your usual suburban house stained glass w…

4 years, 3 months ago

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Your Book Review: The Anti-Politics Machine

Episode 665

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-anti-politics

[This is one of the finalists in the 2022 book review contest. It’s not by …

4 years, 3 months ago

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In Partial, Grudging Defense Of The Hearing Voices Movement

Episode 664

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/in-partial-grudging-defense-of-the

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The New York Times has an article out on the Hearing Voices Movement - i…

4 years, 3 months ago

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California Gubernatorial Candidates From Z to Z

Episode 663

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/california-gubernatorial-candidates

California is the home of Alphabet Inc, so it’s symbolically appropriate t…

4 years, 3 months ago

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Willpower, Human and Machine

Episode 662

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/willpower-human-and-machine

Two paragraphs from the mesa-optimizers post, which I quoted again in the adaptati…

4 years, 3 months ago

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