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Astral Codex Ten Podcast

The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It"s just me reading Scott Alexander"s blog posts.

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40:45

Your Book Review: The Outlier

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/10

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-outlier [This is one of the finalists in the 2022 book review contest. It’s not by me - it’s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked - SA] I. I decided to read a 600-page book about Jimmy Carter

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32:29

Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/08

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-the-bb9 Thanks to the 750 of you who commented on the homicide spike post (as of last weekend when I collated these highlights). I don’t have enough space here to address everything, but here are some general themes: Was It Guns? Artifex0 on the subreddit writes: You mentioned that you haven't looked closely into the idea that increased gun sales were to blame. I haven't either, but that hypothesis

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06:36

Nobody Knows How Well Homework Works

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/07

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-well-homework-works Yesterday I wrote about bottlenecks to learning. I wanted to discuss the effectiveness of homework. If it works well, that would suggest students are bottlenecked on examples and repetition. If it works poorly, it would have to be something else. Unfortunately, all the research on this (showcased in eg Cooper 2006) is terrible. Most studies cited by both sides use “time spent doing homework” as the independent variable, then

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12:06

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

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/07

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/study-ritalin-works-but-school-isnt Recent study, Pelham et al: The Effect Of Stimulant Medication On The Learning Of Academic Curricula In Children With ADHD. It’s gotten popular buzz as “scientists have found medication has no detectable impact on how much children with ADHD learn in the classroom” and “Medication alone has no impact on learning”. This probably comes as a surprise if you’ve ever worked with stimulants, ADHD patients, or classrooms, so let’s

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57:21

Your Book Review: The Internationalists

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/04

Finalist #8 in the Book Review Contest https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-internationalists [This is one of the finalists in the 2022 book review contest. It’s not by me - it’s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones

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30:31

Links For June

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/03

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-june-1e7 [Remember, 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 post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can’t guarantee I will have caught them all by the time you read this.] 1: Did you know: seven countries in East Africa plan to merge into a single

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01:04:14

Highlights From The Comments On San Fransicko

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/02

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-san [Original post here] 1: Nifty775 writes: This doesn't address allegations that many of California's homeless are from elsewhere, but deliberately moved to a few metro areas due to nice weather and generous social services. (Or, I've heard stories that their local town put them on a bus to SF). If .2% of the population everywhere is basically OK with a lifestyle of camping on the street and doing drugs, and then they all

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32:57

What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/02

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-caused-the-2020-homicide-spike In my review of San Fransicko, I mentioned that it was hard to separate the effect of San Francisco’s local policies from the general 2020 spike in homicides, which I attributed to the Black Lives Matter protests and subsequent police pullback. The nationwide 2020 spike in homicides (source). The spike is small compared to the secular trend from the 1960s through 2000, but large by the standards of the past twenty years.

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25:27

Model City Monday 6/27/22

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/07/01

ZEDE update, Afropolitan, and we're going to Disney World! https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/model-city-monday-62722 Goodbye, ZEDE Law The story so far: in the mid 2010s, Honduras passed a first-in-the-world law saying that private actors could apply to run charter cities / special economic zones (ZEDEs) on Honduran territory. Three groups took them up on the offer and designed various interesting projects. In January, Honduras kicked out the right-wing government that passed the ZEDE law and

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55:55

Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The...

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/29

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-public-choice-theory Finalist #7 In The Book Review Contest [This is one of the finalists in the 2022 book review contest. It’s not by me - it’s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked - SA] [update

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02:57:45

Book Review: San Fransicko

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/28

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-san-fransicko Last month I discussed the platforms of twenty-six candidates for California governor. One candidate, author and activist Michael Shellenberger, objected to my characterization of him, so I read his book San Fransicko to learn more and decide whether I owed him an apology. San Fransicko is subtitled “Why Progressives Ruin Cities”. It builds off the kind of stories familiar to most Bay Area residents: In the spring of 2021 two

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49:15

Your Book Review: The Future Of Fusion Energy

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/18

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-future-of-fusion [This is one of the finalists in the 2022 book review contest. It’s not by me - it’s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked - SA] Introduction Fusion is the power which

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17:47

Peer Review: Nightmares

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/16

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/peer-review-nightmares I'm trying to build up a database of mental health resources on my other website, Lorien Psychiatry. Every time I post something, people here have made good comments, so I want to try using you all as peer review. Please give me comments on typos, places where you disagree with my recommendations, extra things you think I should add, your personal stories about your own experiences, and comments on the overall organization and tone of the

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16:48

Mantic Monday 6/13/22

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/14

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mantic-monday-61422 Mantic Monday 6/13/22 It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, hopefully no major new crises started while we were . . . oh. Darn. Mantic Monkey Metaculus predicts 17000 cases and 400 deaths from monkeypox this year. But as usual, it’s all about the distribution 90% chance of fewer than 400,000 cases. 95% chance of fewer than 2.2 million cases. 98% chance of fewer than 500 million cases. This is encouraging, but a 2% chance of >500

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01:04:19

Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/12

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-dawn-of-everything [This is one of the finalists in the 2022 book review contest. It’s not by me - it’s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked - SA] ON ROUSSEAU, ESSAY

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32:58

Somewhat Contra Marcus On AI Scaling

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/11

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/somewhat-contra-marcus-on-ai-scaling I. Previously: I predicted that DALL-E’s many flaws would be fixed quickly in future updates. As evidence, I cited Gary Marcus’ lists of GPT’s flaws, most of which got fixed quickly in future updates. Marcus responded with a post on his own Substack, arguing . . . well, arguing enough things that I’m nervous quoting one part as the thesis, and you should read the whole post, but if I had to do it, it would be: Now it is

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08:10

Against "There Are Two X-Wing Parties"

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/10

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 two left-wing parties" or "America has two right-wing parties" or "both major parties are socialist" or however else you want frame this. The argument goes that even the Democrats aren't truly left (or even the Republicans aren't truly right), and so one side of the political spectrum completely controls discourse. Taken as an absolute claim, it's

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28:58

Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/09

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 this meme (originally by Colin Wright, recently signal-boosted by Elon Musk): He concludes that, contra the image where the Right stays in the same place and the Left moves, both Republicans and Democrats have “changed a lot” since 2008. He wisely avoids speculating on whether one party has moved further or faster than the other. I’m less wise, so I’ve

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25:17

My Bet: AI Size Solves Flubs

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/08

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 DALL-E gets confused easily and makes silly mistakes. But I also wrote that: I’m not going to make the mistake of saying these problems are inherent to AI art. My guess is a slightly better language model would solve most of them...For all I know, some of the larger image models have already fixed these issues. These are the sorts of problems I expect

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01:11:06

Your Book Review: The Castrato

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2022/06/06

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 - it’s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked - SA] Morning of the Mutants “CASTRATO, a musician, who in

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