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Indulge Your Internet Addiction By Reading About Internet Addiction
Friendly And Hostile Analogies For Taste
Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House
Open Thread 358
Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Open Thread 357
Against The Generalized Anti-Caution Argument
How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?
Open Thread 356
The Early Christian Strategy
Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity
Open Thread 355
Congrats To Polymarket, But I Still Think They Were Mispriced
Mantic Monday: Judgment Day
Open Thread 354
Links For November 2024
ACX Endorses Harris, Oliver, Or Stein
The Case Against California Proposition 36
Open Thread 353
Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
Secrets Of The Median Voter Theorem
ACX Local Voting Guides
Open Thread 352
Book Review: Deep Utopia
AI Art Turing Test
Open Thread 351
Book Review Contest 2024 Winners
SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story
Triple Tragedy And Thankful Theory
Open Thread 350
Ballots Everywhere: Times And Places
Against The Cultural Christianity Argument
Preliminary Milei Report Card
Open Thread 349
Ballots Everywhere: Call For Organizers, Times, & Dates
Vote In The 2024 Book Review Contest
ACX Classifieds 9/2024
How Often Do Men Think About Rome?
Open Thread 348
Your Book Review: The Ballad of the White Horse
Sakana, Strawberry, and Scary AI
Mantic Monday 9/16/24
Open Thread 347
Berkeley Meetup This Saturday
Your Book Review: Nine Lives
Links For September 2024
Contra DeBoer On Temporal Copernicanism
Open Thread 346
Your Book Review: The Pale King
Highlights From The Comments On "Sorry You Feel That Way"
Interview Day At Thiel Capital
Open Thread 345
Your Book Review: The History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe
Meetups Everywhere 2024: Times & Places
In Defense Of "I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
Open Thread 344
Your Book Review: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet's Craft Book (1936 Edition)
The Compounding Loophole
Lukianoff And Defining Cancel Culture
Open Thread 343
Your Book Review: Silver Age Marvel Comics
Why Does Ozempic Cure All Diseases?
Open Thread 342
Your Book Review: How the War Was Won
Highlights From The Comments On Nietzsche
Altruism And Vitalism As Fellow Travelers
Open Thread 341
Your Book Review: Two Arms and a Head
Meetups Everywhere Fall 2024 - Call for Organizers
Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Superman
Open Thread 340
Your Book Review: Real Raw News
Links for July 2024
Some Practical Considerations Before Descending Into An Orgy Of Vengeance
Open Thread 339
Your Book Review: How Language Began
Highlights From The Comments On Mentally Ill Homeless People
Consciousness As Recursive Reflections
Open Thread 338
Your Book Review: The Family That Couldn’t Sleep
Lifeboat Games And Backscratchers Clubs
Details That You Should Include In Your Article On How We Should Do Something About Mentally Ill Homeless People
Open Thread 337
Your Book Review: Don Juan by Lord Byron
Prediction Markets Suggest Replacing Biden
Open Thread 336
Your Book Review: Dominion
My 2024 Presidential Debate
Clarification On "Fake Tradition Is Traditional"
Open Thread 335
Your Book Review: Autobiography Of Yukichi Fukuzawa
Fake Tradition Is Traditional
Open Thread 334
Failure To Replicate Anti-Vaccine Poll
Nobody Can Make You Feel Genetically Inferior Without Your Consent
Open Thread 333
Berkeley Meetup This Wednesday
Open Thread 332
Unsong Available In Paperback
Contra Stone On EA
Links for May 2024
What Is Going On In IFS?
Open Thread 331
A Theoretical "Case Against Education"
Book Review: The Others Within Us
Open Thread 330
Choose Book Review Finalists 2024
Profile: The Far Out Initiative
Open Thread 329
Mantic Monday 5/13/24
Highlights From The Comments On Hanson And Health Care
The Emotional Support Animal Racket
Asterisk/Zvi on California's AI Bill
Highlights From The Comments On "The Origin Of Woke"
Open Thread 328
Book Review: The Origins Of Woke
Response to Hanson On Health Care
Open Thread 327
Survey Results: PMS Symptoms
Desperately Trying To Fathom The Coffeepocalypse Argument
Contra Hanson On Medical Effectiveness
Open Thread 326
ACX Survey Results 2024
Ye Olde Bay Area House Party
Updates on Lumina Probiotic
Open Thread 325
ACX Classifieds 4/24
Highlights From The Comments On The Lab Leak Debate
Open Thread 324
Links For April 2024
Open Thread 323
Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024
Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate
Take The 2024 ACX Survey
Open Thread 322
In Continued Defense Of Non-Frequentist Probabilities
The Mystery Of Internet Survey IQs
Open Thread 320
In Partial Grudging Defense Of Some Aspects Of Therapy Culture
Verses On Five People Being Killed By A Falling Package Of Foreign Aid
Mantic Monday 3/11/24
Open Thread 317
Who Does Polygenic Selection Help?
Highlights From The Comments On Polyamory
Mantic Monday 2/19/24
Open Thread 316
X Fact Check: Does Gender Integration Moderate Politics?
Love And Liberty
Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion
Open Thread 315
ACX Grants Results 2024
Evolution Explains Polygenic Structure
You Don't Hate Polyamory, You Hate People Who Write Books
Open Thread 314
It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic
Seems Like Targeting
Mantic Monday 1/29/24
Open Thread 313
The Psychopolitics Of Trauma
Some Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders
Should The Future Be Human?
Open Thread 312
Subscrive Drive 2024 + Free Unlocked Posts
Links For January 2024
AI Sleeper Agents
Against Learning From Dramatic Events
Open Thread 311
Highlights From The Comments On Capitalism & Charity
The Road To Honest AI
Open Thread 310
Does Capitalism Beat Charity?
Singing The Blues
Open Thread 309
Open Thread 308
In The Long Run, We're All Dad
Open Thread 307
Son Of Bride Of Bay Area House Party
Open Thread 306
Apply For An ACX Grant (2024)
Defying Cavity: Lantern Bioworks FAQ
Beyond "Abolish The FDA"
Mantic Monday 12/4/23
Open Thread 305
Links For November 2023
Contra DeBoer On Movement Shell Games
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism
Open Thread 304
God Help Us, Let's Try To Understand AI Monosemanticity
Open Thread 303
Book Review: I See Satan Fall Like Lighting
Does Anaesthesia Prove Ketamine Placebo?
Open Thread 302
Followup: Quests And Requests
Highlights From The Comments On Kidney Donation
Hardball Questions For The Next Debate
Open Thread 301
Quests And Requests
Dictator Book Club: Chavez
Mantic Monday 10/30/23
Open Thread 300
My Left Kidney
Open Thread 299
Open Thread 298
Open Thread 297
Impact Market Mini-Grants Results
Pause For Thought: The AI Pause Debate
How Are The Gay Younger Brothers Doing?
Open Thread 296
Links For September 2023
Open Thread 295
ACX Classifieds 9/23
Book Review: The Alexander Romance
Open Thread 294
Highlights From The Comments On Elon Musk
Book Review Contest 2023 Winners
Book Review: Elon Musk
Open Thread 293
Highlights From The Comments On Last Week's Model Cities Post
Vote In The 2023 Book Review Contest
Contra Kirkegaard On Evolutionary Definitions Of Mental Illness
My Presidential Platform
Open Thread 292
Model City Monday 9/4/23: California Dreamin'
Your Book Review: Zuozhuan
Here's Why Automaticity Is Real Actually
Highlights From The Comments On Fetishes
Open Thread 291
Mantic Monday 8/28/23
Your Book Review: Why Nations Fail
Meetups Everywhere 2023: Times & Places
More Thoughts On Critical Windows
Highlights From The Comments On Dating Preferences
Critical Periods For Language: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
What Can Fetish Research Tell Us About AI?
Open Thread 290
Your Book Review: The Mind Of A Bee
Bride Of Bay Area House Party
In Defense Of Describable Dating Preferences
Open Thread 289
Your Book Review: The Weirdest People in the World
Highlights From The Comments On Putin
Links For August 2023
Open Thread 288
Your Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
More Memorable Passages From "The Man Without A Face"
Dictator Book Club: Putin
Meetups Everywhere Fall 2023 - Call For Organizers
Mantic Monday 7/31/23: Room Temperature Superforecaster
Open Thread 287
Your Book Review: On the Marble Cliffs
Bad Definitions Of "Democracy" And "Accountability" Shade Into Totalitarianism
New York Meetup On Sunday
We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned The Bitter Lesson
Highlights From The Comments On Social Model Of Disability
Open Thread 286
Your Book Review: The Laws of Trading
The Extinction Tournament
Highlights From The Comments On British Economic Decline
Berkeley Meetup On Sunday, Special Guest Philip Tetlock
Open Thread 285
Contra The xAI Alignment Plan
Your Book Review: The Educated Mind
Contra The Social Model Of Disability
Why Match School And Student Rank?
Open Thread 284
Your Book Review: Secret Government
Links For July 2023
Tales Of Takeover In CCF-World
Open Thread 283
Your Book Review: Safe Enough?
Is There An Illusion Of Moral Decline?
Sure, Whatever, Let's Try Another Contra Caplan On Mental Illness
Every Flashing Element On Your Site Alienates And Enrages Users
"Through A Glass Darkly" In Asterisk Magazine
Open Thread 282
Your Book Review: Public Citizens
Davidson On Takeoff Speeds
Open Thread 281
Your Book Review: Njal’s Saga
Your Incentives Are Not The Same As Media Companies'
Atlanta Meetup This Sunday
The Canal Papers
Open Thread 280
Your Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning
Attempts To Put Statistics In Context, Put Into Context
Highlights From The Comments On The Academic Job Market
Open Thread 279
Your Book Review: Why Machines Will Never Rule the World
Links For May 2023
All Medications Are Insignificant In The Eyes Of God And Traditional Effect Size Criteria
Are Woo Non-Responders Defective?
Open Thread 278
Your Book Review: Lying for Money
Mantic Monday 5/22/23
Open Thread 277
Your Book Review: Cities And The Wealth Of Nations/The Question Of Separatism
Why Is The Academic Job Market So Weird?
Galton, Ehrlich, Buck
Open Thread 276
Highlights From The Comments On Long COVID And Bisexuality
Highlights From The Comments On Housing Density And Prices
Open Thread 275
Constitutional AI: RLHF On Steroids
Berkeley Meetup This Saturday
Raise Your Threshold For Accusing People Of Faking Bisexuality
Replication Attempt: Bisexuality And Long COVID
Open Thread 274
The Psychology Of Fantasy
Highlights From The Comments On Nerds And Hipsters
Mantic Monday 4/24/23
Open Thread 273
Hidden Open Thread 272.5
Links For April 2023
Contra Kriss On Nerds And Hipsters
Open Thread 272
Highlights From The Comments On IRBs
Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill
Spring Meetups Everywhere 2023
Open Thread 271
Hidden Open Thread 270.5
Book Review: The Arctic Hysterias
Most Technologies Aren't Races
But Seriously, Are Bloxors Greeblic?
Open Thread 270
Highlights From The Comments On Telemedicine Regulations
Hidden Open Thread 269.5
MR Tries The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy
The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again
Turing Test
Open Thread 269
Hidden Open Thread 268.5
Book Review: Paper Belt On Fire
Open Thread 268
Half An Hour Before Dawn In San Francisco
Why Do Transgender People Report Hypermobile Joints?
Classifieds Thread 3/23
Are We All Doxastic Voluntarists?
Why I Am Not (As Much Of) A Doomer (As Some People)
Open Thread 267
Links For March 2023
Open Thread 266.66666...
Give Up Seventy Percent Of The Way Through The Hyperstitious Slur Cascade
Issue Two Of Asterisk
Kelly Bets On Civilization
Open Thread 266
Impact Market Mini-Grants Update
Against Ice Age Civilizations
Memorize A Few Basic Numbers To Have Intuitions About Other Things
OpenAI's "Planning For AGI And Beyond"
Highlights From The Comments On Geography Of Madness
Open Thread 265
Announcing Forecasting Impact Mini-Grants
Book Review: What's Our Problem?
Book Review: The Geography Of Madness
Open Thread 264
Grading My 2018 Predictions For 2023
Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Trying Again On Fideism
Ro-mantic Monday 2/13/23
Contra Kavanagh On Fideism
Open Thread 263
Hidden Open Thread 262.5
Links For February 2023
Henrietta Lacks Seems Like A Nice Person, But Not A Scientific Hero
Bonus Wisdom Of Crowds Analysis
Open Thread 262
Crowds Are Wise (And One's A Crowd)
Berkeley Meetup On Tuesday, Special Guest Daniel Ingram
Hidden Open Thread 261.5
Mostly Skeptical Thoughts On The Chatbot Propaganda Apocalypse
Book Review Contest Rules 2023
Response To Alexandros Contra Me On Ivermectin
Mantic Monday 1/30/2023
Open Thread 261
[Sneak Peek] Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Hidden Open Thread 260.5
Janus' Simulators
You Don't Want A Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy Of Mental Disorders
Who Predicted 2022?
Open Thread 260
ACX Survey Results 2022
Which Political Victories Cause Backlash?
Hidden Open Thread 259.5
SSC Survey Results On Schooling Types
Open Thread 259
Hidden Open Thread 258.5
Conspiracies of Cognition, Conspiracies Of Emotion
2023 Subscription Drive + Free Unlocked Posts
Highlights From The Comments On The Media Very Rarely Lying
Stage 2 Of Prediction Contest
Open Thread 258
Hidden Open Thread 257.5
Even More Bay Area House Party
How Do AIs' Political Opinions Change As They Get Smarter And Better-Trained?
Open Thread 257
Take The 2022 ACX Survey!
Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About The Media Very Rarely Lying
Hidden Open Thread 256.6
Links For December 2022
Selection Bias Is A Fact Of Life, Not An Excuse For Rejecting Internet Surveys
Open Thread 256
Fact Check: Do All Healthy People Have Mystical Experiences?
The Media Very Rarely Lies
Hidden Open Thread 255.5
The Buying Things From A Store FAQ
Prediction Market FAQ
Open Thread 255
2023 Prediction Contest
A Crypto Exchange
Perhaps It Is A Bad Thing That The World's Leading AI Companies Cannot Control Their AIs
Open Thread 254
Highlights From The Comments On Bobos In Paradise
Hidden Open Thread 253.5
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
Open Thread 253
Which Is Bigger, 256,000 Or A Deer?
Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise
Highlights From The Comments On Semaglutide
Open Thread 252
Can This AI Save Teenage Spy Alex Rider From A Terrible Fate?
If The Media Reported On Other Things Like It Does Effective Altruism
Semaglutidonomics
Mantic Monday: Twitter Chaos Edition
"Is Wine Fake?" In Asterisk Magazine
Open Thread 251
Hidden Open Thread 150.5
The Psychopharmacology Of The FTX Crash
Open Thread 250
Too Spicy For Twitter
Contra Resident Contrarian On Unfalsifiable Internal States
Open Thread 249.5: Challenge Mode
Can People Be Honestly Wrong About Their Own Experiences?
Highlights From The Comments On Brain Waves
Open Thread 249
Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot
My California Ballot 2022
ACX Grants: Project Updates
Moderation Is Different From Censorship
Open Thread 248.5
Highlights From The Comments On Jhanas
Open Thread 248
Elon Musk Has Purchased Twitter
Book Review: Malleus Maleficarum
Open Thread 247.5
Nick Cammarata On Jhana
Highlights From The Comments On Supplement Labeling
From The Mailbag
Open Thread 247
Open Thread 246.5
Book Review: Rhythms Of The Brain
Another Bay Area House Party
Mantic Monday 10/17/22
Open Thread 246
Hidden Open Thread 245.5
Highlights From The Comments On The Central Valley
Links For October
Highlights From The Comments On Columbus Day
Open Thread 245
A Columbian Exchange
LA and San Diego Meetups This Weekend
Hidden Open Thread 244.5
How Trustworthy Are Supplements?
CHAI, Assistance Games, And Fully-Updated Deference
Open Thread 244
Highlights From The Comments On Unpredictable Reward
Universe-Hopping Through Substack
From Nostradamus To Fukuyama
Open Thread 243
Hidden Open Thread 242.5
Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Replaceability
Ask Me Anything
Why Is The Central Valley So Bad?
Janus' GPT Wrangling
Open Thread 242
Bay Area Meetups This Weekend
Travelogue: Northern California
Hidden Open Thread 241.5
Unpredictable Reward, Predictable Happiness
Open Thread 241
I Won My Three Year AI Progress Bet In Three Months
Classifieds Thread 9/22
Links For September 2022
Open Thread 240
The Prophet And Caesar's Wife
Book Review Contest 2022 Winners
Open Thread 239.5
Billionaires, Surplus, And Replaceability
Open Thread 239
Your Book Review: Kora In Hell
Meetups Everywhere 2022: Times & Places
Hidden Open Thread 238.5
Highlights From The Comments On The Repugnant Conclusion And WWOTF
Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions
Book Review: What We Owe The Future
Open Thread 238
Your Book Review: 1587, A Year Of No Significance
Open Thread 237.5
Highlights From The Comments On Subcultures
Skills Plateau Because Of Decay And Interference
Meetups Everywhere 2022 - Call For Organizers
Mantic Monday 8/15/22
Open Thread 237
Your Book Review: God Emperor Of Dune
Will Nonbelievers Really Believe Anything?
Hidden Open Thread 236.5
A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures
Why Not Slow AI Progress?
Open Thread 236
Your Book Review: Exhaustion
Hidden Open Thread 235.5
Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries
Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition
Open Thread 235
Model City Monday 8/1/22
Your Book Review: Viral
Links For July
Hidden Open Thread 234.5
Highlights From The Comments On Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism
Forer Statements As Updates And Affirmations
ELK And The Problem Of Truthful AI
Open Thread 234
Your Book Review: The Society Of The Spectacle
Hidden Open Thread 233.5
Perpendicular Lives II
Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism
Open Thread 233
Your Book Review: The Righteous Mind
Impact Markets: The Annoying Details
Hidden Open Thread 232.5
Book Review: The Man From The Future
Mantic Monday 7/11/22
Open Thread 232
Your Book Review: The Outlier
Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike
Hidden Open Thread 231.5
Nobody Knows How Well Homework Works
Study: Ritalin Works, But School Isn't Worth Paying Attention To
Open Thread 231
Your Book Review: The Internationalists
Links For June
Hidden Open Thread 230.5
What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?
Highlights From The Comments On San Fransicko
Model City Monday 6/27/22
Open Thread 230
Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
Open Thread 229.5
Book Review: San Fransicko
Open Thread 229
Your Book Review: The Future Of Fusion Energy
Peer Review: Nightmares
Hidden Open Thread 228.5
Open Thread 228
Mantic Monday 6/13/22
Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything
Somewhat Contra Marcus On AI Scaling
Hidden Open Thread 227.5
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
Open Thread 227
Your Book Review: The Castrato
Hidden Open Thread 226.5
Classifieds Thread 6/2022
Birth Order Effects: Nature vs. Nurture
Open Thread 226
A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows
Your Book Review: The Anti-Politics Machine
[Peer Review] Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster?
Hidden Open Thread 225.5
In Partial, Grudging Defense Of The Hearing Voices Movement
California Gubernatorial Candidates From Z to Z
Willpower, Human and Machine
Open Thread 225
Your Book Review: Making Nature
Hidden Open Thread 224.5
Lavender's Game: Silexan For Anxiety
Link: Troof On Nootropics
Contra Dynomight On Sexy In-Laws
Open Thread 224
Your Book Review: Consciousness And The Brain
Hidden Open Thread 223.5
Mantic Monday 5/9/22
Book Review: The Gervais Principle
Open Thread 223
Berkeley Meetup This Saturday
Why Do People Prefer My Old Blog's Layout To Substack's?
Every Bay Area House Party
Open Thread 222
Highlights From The Comments On Xi Jinping
Hidden Open Thread 221.5
Current Affairs' Marxist Critique Of Toddler Show Blippi Isn't Marxist Enough
Book Review: A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Open Thread 221
Hidden Open Thread 219.5
Initial Conditions
Hidden Open Thread 220.5
Contra Hoffman On Vitamin D Dosing
Highlights From The Comments On "Sadly, Porn"
Mantic Monday 4/18/22
Open Thread 220
Irvine Meetup This Monday
Links For April
Obscure Pregnancy Interventions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Biography of Jason Shea, 44th US President
Deceptively Aligned Mesa-Optimizers: It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It
Spring Meetups In Seventy Cities
Open Thread 219
Peer Review Request: Obscure Pregnancy Interventions
Highlights From The Comments On Self-Determination
Hidden Open Thread 218.5
Dictator Book Club: Xi Jinping
Yudkowsky Contra Christiano On AI Takeoff Speeds
Open Thread 218
The Low-Hanging Fruit Argument: Models And Predictions
Hidden Open Thread 217.5
Idol Words
Who Gets Self-Determination?
Information Markets, Decision Markets, Attention Markets, Action Markets
Open Thread 217
Highlights From The Comments On Justice Creep
Hidden Open Thread 216.5
Men Will Literally Have Completely Different Mental Processes Instead Of Going To Therapy
Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring
Mantic Monday 3/21/22
Open Thread 216
Hidden Open Thread 215.5
The Onion Knight
Highlights From The Comments On Zulresso
Justice Creep
Mantic Monday 3/14/22
Open Thread 215
Hidden Open Thread 214.5
Progesterone Megadoses Might Be A Cheap Zulresso Substitute
Advice For Unwoke Academic?
Zounds! It's Zulresso and Zuranolone!
Ukraine Thoughts And Links
Open Thread 214
What Are We Arguing About When We Argue About Rationality?
Hidden Open Thread 213.5
Microaddictions
Ukraine Warcasting
Open Thread 213
Austin Meetup Correction
Hidden Open Thread 212.5
Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work
Links For February
Play Money And Reputation Systems
Open Thread 212
Hidden Open Thread 211.5
Austin Meetup Next Sunday
The Gods Only Have Power Because We Believe In Them
Book Review: Sadly, Porn
Mantic Monday: Ukraine Cube Manifold
Open Thread 211
Highlights From The Comments On Motivated Reasoning And Reinforcement Learning
Hidden Open Thread 210.5
ACX Grants ++: The Second Half
So You Want To Run A Microgrants Program
Two Small Corrections And Updates
Heuristics That Almost Always Work
The Passage Of Polymarket
Open Thread 210
Hidden Open Thread 209.5
Book Review Contest Rules 2022
ACX Grants ++: The First Half
Why Do I Suck?
Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning
Predictions For 2022
Open Thread 209
Hidden Open Thread 208.5
Classifieds Thread 1/2022
Highlights From The Comments On Health Care Systems
Bounded Distrust
Against That Poverty And Infant EEGs Study
Open Thread 208
Grading My 2021 Predictions
Resubmit And Summarize Your Proposals For Grants ++
Hidden Open Thread 207.5
Ask Me Anything
Book Review: Which Country Has The World's Best Health Care?
Practically-A-Book Review: Yudkowsky Contra Ngo On Agents
Open Thread 207
There's A Time For Everyone
Hidden Open Thread 206.5
Open Thread 206
Highlights From The Comments On "Don't Look Up"
Open Thread 205.5
Name's The Same
Movie Review: Don't Look Up
Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894
Open Thread 205
Open Thread 204.5
Links For December
ACX Grants Results
Open Thread 204
Mantic Monday: Dogs In Wizard Hats
Open Thread 203.5
Highlights From The Comments On Diseasonality
Addendum To "No Evidence" Post
Addendum To Luvox Post
The FDA Has Punted Decisions About Luvox Prescription To The Deepest Recesses Of The Human Soul
Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That For You
Open Thread 203
The Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication
Open Thread 202.5
Ancient Plagues
Open Thread 202
Does Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value be Accurately Assessed Separately From Buildings?
Does Georgism Work? Part 2: Can Landlords Pass Land Value Tax on to Tenants?
Hidden Open Thread 201.5
Does Georgism Work? Is Land Really A Big Deal?
Diseasonality
Model City Monday 12/6/21
Open Thread 201
Open Thread 200.5
Book Review: Lifespan
MM: Omicron Variant
Open Thread 200
Links For November
Pascalian Medicine
Open Thread 199.5
Higlights From The Comments On Ivermectin
Highlights From The Comments On The FDA And Paxlovid
When Will The FDA Approve Paxlovid?
Open Thread 199
Open Thread 198.5
Highlights From The Comments On Great Families
Continental Drip
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Mantic Monday 11/15
Open Thread 198
Open Thread 197.5
Highlights From The Comments On Orban
Apply For An ACX Grant
Secrets Of The Great Families
Open Thread 197
Model City Monday 11/8/21
Open Thread 196.5
Dictator Book Club: Orban
Non-Cognitive Skills For Educational Attainment Suggest Benefits Of Mental Illness Genes
Mantic Monday 11/1/21
Open Thread 196
Jhanas and the Dark Room Problem
Learn British English With ACX
Epistemic Minor Leagues
Open Thread 195 + Cambridge/Edinburgh Meetups This Weekend
Chilling Effects
Open Thread 194 + London/Oxford Meetups This Weekend
Links For October
Correction: London Meetup Location
Highlights From The Comments On Kids And Global Warming
Please Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change
Learn German With ACX
Open Thread 193 + Berlin/Paris Meetups This Weekend
Classifieds Thread 10/2021
Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture
Open Thread 192 + Vienna/Prague Meetups This Weekend
Learn Spanish With ACX
Open Thread 191.5
Book Review: The Scout Mindset
Open Thread 191 + Madrid/Zurich Meetups This Weekend
Whither Tartaria?
Learn Portuguese With ACX
Links For September
Open Thread 190
Lisbon Meetup This Saturday
Book Review: The Revolt Of The Public
Open Thread 189.5
Book Review: Modi - A Political Biography
Open Thread 189
Washington DC Meetup This Saturday
The Unbearable Semiheaviness Of Being
Open Thread 188.5
Too Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts
Open Thread 188
New York Meetup This Monday
Boston Meetup This Sunday
Open Thread 187.5
Long COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Peer Review: Long COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
On Hreha On Behavioral Economics
Open Thread 187
Berkeley Meetup This Saturday
Highlights From The Comments On Missing School
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Governor Of California?
Carbon Costs Quantified
Meetups Everywhere 2021: Times And Places
Open Thread 186
Highlights From The Comments On Aducanumab
Peer Review Request: Carbon Costs Quantified
Open Thread 185.5
Links For August
Kids Can Recover From Missing Even Quite A Lot Of School
Open Thread 185
Blindness, Schizophrenia, and Autism
Contra Hanania On Partisanship
Open Thread 184.5
Classifieds Thread 8/2021
(Outdoor, Careful) Meetups Everywhere 2021 - Seeking Organizers
Eight Hundred Slightly Poisoned Word Games
Open Thread 184
Contra Drum On The Fish Oil Story
Open Thread 183.5
Details Of The Infant Fish Oil Story
Highlights From The Comments On Acemoglu And AI
Adumbrations Of Aducanumab
What Should We Make Of Sasha Chapin's Claim That Taking LSD Restored His Sense Of Smell After COVID?
Model City Monday 8/2/21
Open Thread 183
Updated Look At Long-Term AI Risks
When Does Worrying About Things Trade Off Against Worrying About Other Things?
Contra Acemoglu On...Oh God, We're Doing This Again, Aren't We?
Mantic Monday 7/26
Open Thread 182
Links For July
Open Thread 181.5
Things I Learned Writing The Lockdown Post
Highlights From The Comments On "Crazy Like Us"
Peer Review Request: Ketamine
Open Thread 181
Please Take The Reader Survey
Open Thread 180.5
Book Review: Crazy Like Us
Reader Survey Final Check-In
Use Prediction Markets To Fund Investigative Reporting
Open Thread 180
Book Review Contest: Winners
Open Thread 179.5
Is This Predictive Coding?
Lockdown Effectiveness: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Model City Monday
Open Thread 179
Open Thread 178.5
Highlights From The Comments On "How Asia Works"
Welcome Polygenically Screened Babies
Book Review: How Asia Works
Open Thread 178
Open Thread 177.5
ACX Reader Research Survey: Call For Submissions
Perpendicular Lives
Links For June
Mantic Monday 6/21/21
Open Thread 177
Vote In The Book Review Contest!
Your Book Review: Plagues And Peoples
Peer Review: Lockdown Effectiveness
Open Thread 176.5
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