Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Good News Is That One Side Has Definitively Won The Missing Heritability Debate
…the bad news is that they can't agree which one.
I explained the debate more here, but the short version is: twin studies find that most traits are…
8 months, 1 week ago
Why AI Safety Won't Make America Lose The Race With China
If we worry too much about AI safety, will this make us "lose the race with China"1?
(here "AI safety" means long-term concerns about alignment and h…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The New AI Consciousness Paper
Most discourse on AI is low-quality. Most discourse on consciousness is super-abysmal-double-low quality. Multiply these - or maybe raise one to the …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Suggest Questions For Metaculus/ACX Forecasting Contest
ACX has been co-running a forecasting contest with Metaculus for the past few years. Lately the "co-running" has drifted towards them doing all the…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
What Happened To SF Homelessness?
Last year, I wrote that it would be very hard to decrease the number of mentally ill homeless people in San Francisco. Commenters argued that no, it…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
In What Sense Is Life Suffering?
"Life is suffering" may be a Noble Truth, but it feels like a deepity. Yes, obviously life includes suffering. But it also includes happiness. Many …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Bloomer's Paradox
In Jason Pargin's I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom, a manic pixie dream girl cajoles a shut-in incel loser to drive her and her my…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Writing For The AIs
American Scholar has an article about people who "write for AI", including Tyler Cowen and Gwern. It's good that this is getting more attention, b…
9 months ago
Links For October 2025
[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…
9 months ago
Model City Monday 10/27/25
Would You Like To Buy A Bahama?
The Bahamas is an archipelago-nation of 400,000 people scattered across 3,000 small islands.
The Bahamas' most populo…
9 months ago