Podcast Episodes

Record Low Crime Rates Are Real, Not Just Reporting Bias Or Improved Medical Care

Last year, the US may have recorded the lowest murder rate in its 250 year history. Other crimes have poorer historical data, but are at least at ~50…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

What Happened With Bio Anchors?

[Original post: Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work]

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Ajeya Cotra's Biological Anchors report was the landmark AI timelines …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Political Backflow From Europe

The European discourse can be - for lack of a better term - America-brained. We hear stories of Black Lives Matter marches in countries without signi…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Links For February 2026

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

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Moltbook: After The First Weekend

[previous post: Best Of Moltbook]

From the human side of the discussion:

As the AIs would say, "You've cut right to the heart of this issue". What's …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Best Of Moltbook

Moltbook is "a social network for AI agents", although "humans [are] welcome to observe".

The backstory: a few months ago, Anthropic released Claude …

6 months, 1 week ago

Slightly Against The "Other People's Money" Argument Against Aid

In the comments to last year's USAID post, Fabian said:

While i am happy for the existence of charity organisations, i don't get why people instead…

6 months, 1 week ago

Highlights From The Comments On Scott Adams

[original post: The Dilbert Afterlife]

Table of Contents:

1: Should I Have Written This At All?
2: Was I Unfair To Adams?
3: Comments On The Substanc…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Dilbert Afterlife

Thanks to everyone who sent in condolences on my recent death from prostate cancer at age 68, but that was Scott Adams. I (Scott Alexander) am still …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Mantic Monday: The Monkey's Paw Curls

The Monkey's Paw Curls

Isn't "may you get exactly what you asked for" one of those ancient Chinese curses?

Since we last spoke, prediction markets ha…

6 months, 4 weeks ago