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Take The 2022 ACX Survey!

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Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About The Media Very Rarely Lying

Links For December 2022

Selection Bias Is A Fact Of Life, Not An Excuse For Rejecting Internet Surveys

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Fact Check: Do All Healthy People Have Mystical Experiences?

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The Media Very Rarely Lies

The Buying Things From A Store FAQ

Prediction Market FAQ

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2023 Prediction Contest

A Crypto Exchange

Perhaps It Is A Bad Thing That The World's Leading AI Companies Cannot Control Their AIs

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Highlights From The Comments On Bobos In Paradise

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Why I'm Less Than Infinitely Hostile To Cryptocurrency

Know Your GABA-A Receptor Subunits

What Your Doctor Spends 80% Of Their Time Doing

Peer Review: Prediction Market FAQ

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Which Is Bigger, 256,000 Or A Deer?

Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise

Highlights From The Comments On Semaglutide

Can This AI Save Teenage Spy Alex Rider From A Terrible Fate?

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If The Media Reported On Other Things Like It Does Effective Altruism

Semaglutidonomics

"Is Wine Fake?" In Asterisk Magazine

Mantic Monday: Twitter Chaos Edition

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The Psychopharmacology Of The FTX Crash

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Too Spicy For Twitter

Contra Resident Contrarian On Unfalsifiable Internal States

Can People Be Honestly Wrong About Their Own Experiences?

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Highlights From The Comments On Brain Waves

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Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot

ACX Grants: Project Updates

My California Ballot 2022

Moderation Is Different From Censorship

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Highlights From The Comments On Jhanas

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Elon Musk Has Purchased Twitter

Book Review: Malleus Maleficarum

Nick Cammarata On Jhana

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Highlights From The Comments On Supplement Labeling

From The Mailbag

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Book Review: Rhythms Of The Brain

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Another Bay Area House Party

Mantic Monday 10/17/22

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Highlights From The Comments On The Central Valley

Links For October

Highlights From The Comments On Columbus Day

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A Columbian Exchange

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LA and San Diego Meetups This Weekend

How Trustworthy Are Supplements?

CHAI, Assistance Games, And Fully-Updated Deference

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Highlights From The Comments On Unpredictable Reward

Universe-Hopping Through Substack

From Nostradamus To Fukuyama

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Ask Me Anything

Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Replaceability

Why Is The Central Valley So Bad?

Janus' GPT Wrangling

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Bay Area Meetups This Weekend

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Travelogue: Northern California

Unpredictable Reward, Predictable Happiness

I Won My Three Year AI Progress Bet In Three Months

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Classifieds Thread 9/22

Links For September 2022

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Book Review Contest 2022 Winners

The Prophet And Caesar's Wife

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Billionaires, Surplus, And Replaceability

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Your Book Review: Kora In Hell

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Meetups Everywhere 2022: Times & Places

Highlights From The Comments On The Repugnant Conclusion And WWOTF

Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions

Book Review: What We Owe The Future

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Your Book Review: 1587, A Year Of No Significance

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Highlights From The Comments On Subcultures

Skills Plateau Because Of Decay And Interference

Meetups Everywhere 2022 - Call For Organizers

Mantic Monday 8/15/22

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Your Book Review: God Emperor Of Dune

Will Nonbelievers Really Believe Anything?

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A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures

Why Not Slow AI Progress?

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Your Book Review: Exhaustion

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Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition

Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries

Model City Monday 8/1/22

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Your Book Review: Viral

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Links For July

Highlights From The Comments On Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism

Forer Statements As Updates And Affirmations

ELK And The Problem Of Truthful AI

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Your Book Review: The Society Of The Spectacle

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Perpendicular Lives II

Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism

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Your Book Review: The Righteous Mind

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Impact Markets: The Annoying Details

Book Review: The Man From The Future

Mantic Monday 7/11/22

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Your Book Review: The Outlier

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Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike

Nobody Knows How Well Homework Works

Study: Ritalin Works, But School Isn't Worth Paying Attention To

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Your Book Review: The Internationalists

Links For June

Highlights From The Comments On San Fransicko

What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?

Model City Monday 6/27/22

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Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy

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Book Review: San Fransicko

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Your Book Review: The Future Of Fusion Energy

Peer Review: Nightmares

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Mantic Monday 6/13/22

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Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything

Somewhat Contra Marcus On AI Scaling

Against "There Are Two X-Wing Parties"

Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster?

My Bet: AI Size Solves Flubs

It's Bad On Purpose To Make You Click

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Your Book Review: The Castrato

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Classifieds Thread 6/2022

Birth Order Effects: Nature vs. Nurture

A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows

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Your Book Review: The Anti-Politics Machine

[Peer Review] Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster?

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In Partial, Grudging Defense Of The Hearing Voices Movement

California Gubernatorial Candidates From Z to Z

Willpower, Human and Machine

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Your Book Review: Making Nature

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Lavender's Game: Silexan For Anxiety

Link: Troof On Nootropics

Contra Dynomight On Sexy In-Laws

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Your Book Review: Consciousness And The Brain

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Book Review: The Gervais Principle

Mantic Monday 5/9/22

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Berkeley Meetup This Saturday

Why Do People Prefer My Old Blog's Layout To Substack's?

Every Bay Area House Party

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Highlights From The Comments On Xi Jinping

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Current Affairs' Marxist Critique Of Toddler Show Blippi Isn't Marxist Enough

Book Review: A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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Initial Conditions

Contra Hoffman On Vitamin D Dosing

Highlights From The Comments On "Sadly, Porn"

Mantic Monday 4/18/22

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Irvine Meetup This Monday

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Links For April

Biography of Jason Shea, 44th US President

Obscure Pregnancy Interventions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Deceptively Aligned Mesa-Optimizers: It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It

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Spring Meetups In Seventy Cities

Peer Review Request: Obscure Pregnancy Interventions

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Dictator Book Club: Xi Jinping

Highlights From The Comments On Self-Determination

Yudkowsky Contra Christiano On AI Takeoff Speeds

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The Low-Hanging Fruit Argument: Models And Predictions

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Idol Words

Who Gets Self-Determination?

Information Markets, Decision Markets, Attention Markets, Action Markets

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Highlights From The Comments On Justice Creep

Men Will Literally Have Completely Different Mental Processes Instead Of Going To Therapy

Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring

Mantic Monday 3/21/22

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The Onion Knight

Highlights From The Comments On Zulresso

Justice Creep

Mantic Monday 3/14/22

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Progesterone Megadoses Might Be A Cheap Zulresso Substitute

Advice For Unwoke Academic?

Zounds! It's Zulresso and Zuranolone!

Ukraine Thoughts And Links

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What Are We Arguing About When We Argue About Rationality?

Microaddictions

Ukraine Warcasting

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Austin Meetup Correction

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Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work

Links For February

Play Money And Reputation Systems

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Austin Meetup Next Sunday

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The Gods Only Have Power Because We Believe In Them

Book Review: Sadly, Porn

Mantic Monday: Ukraine Cube Manifold

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Highlights From The Comments On Motivated Reasoning And Reinforcement Learning

ACX Grants ++: The Second Half

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So You Want To Run A Microgrants Program

Heuristics That Almost Always Work

Two Small Corrections And Updates

The Passage Of Polymarket

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Book Review Contest Rules 2022

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ACX Grants ++: The First Half

Why Do I Suck?

Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning

Predictions For 2022

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Classifieds Thread 1/2022

Highlights From The Comments On Health Care Systems

Against That Poverty And Infant EEGs Study

Bounded Distrust

Grading My 2021 Predictions

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Resubmit And Summarize Your Proposals For Grants ++

Ask Me Anything

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Book Review: Which Country Has The World's Best Health Care?

Practically-A-Book Review: Yudkowsky Contra Ngo On Agents

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There's A Time For Everyone

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Highlights From The Comments On "Don't Look Up"

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Name's The Same

Movie Review: Don't Look Up

Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894

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