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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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27:09

Links For September

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/21

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-september [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: My parents’ and grandparents’ generations had lots of weird rules about fashion like “never

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01:44

Lisbon Meetup This Saturday

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/18

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lisbon-meetup-this-saturday When: Saturday, September 18th, 5 PM Where: guitars.record.caps, aka a suspiciously ordinary-looking tree in Parque da Pedra, Monsanto Park. Our intrepid organizer writes: “Spot the tall white guy in pink pants. There's an adjacent road with street parking, and a clearing at that point that opens onto a trail that leads to the park.” Who: Anyone who wants. Please feel free to come even if you feel awkward about it, even if you’re

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32:54

Book Review: The Revolt Of The Public

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/17

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-revolt-of-the-public I. Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014, which means you might as well read the Epic of Gilgamesh. It has a second-edition-update-chapter from 2017, which means it might as well be Beowulf. The book is about how social-media-connected masses are revolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what Gurri considers wild speculation is now obvious fact. I picked up the book on

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49:31

Book Review: Modi - A Political Biography

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/14

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-modi-a-political-biography I. I have a friend who studied the history of fascism. She gets angry when people call Trump (or some other villain du jour) fascist. "Words have meanings! Fascism isn't just any right-winger you dislike!" Maybe she takes this a little too far; by a strict definition, she's not even sure Franco qualifies. Anyway, I mention this because she says Narendra Modi, the current prime minister of India, is absolutely, literally,

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01:24

Washington DC Meetup This Saturday

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/11

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/washington-dc-meetup-this-saturday When: Saturday, September 11th, 5 PM Where: decent.search.hurls, aka the patio and lot around 1002 N St. NW. Who: Anyone who wants. Please feel free to come even if you feel awkward about it, even if you’re not “the typical ACX reader”, even if you’re worried people won’t like you, etc. Also, me! I’ll be there on my meetups tour and hope to meet many of you. If you’re somewhere other than DC, check the spreadsheet to find

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13:04

The Unbearable Semiheaviness Of Being

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/09

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-unbearable-semiheaviness-of-being I hear that Google tests prospective employees with weird vaguely-science-related riddles. If I were in charge of this, here's what I would ask: You're an American spy in Cuba. The CIA has gotten you a position refilling the water coolers in Castro's presidential palace, hoping you can poison him. But Castro's security is pretty good. Every time you enter the palace, they search you so exhaustively that you're sure you

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18:14

Too Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/07

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-play-in-three I. Seen on Twitter: In case you find this hard to follow: ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that looked promising against COVID in early studies. Later it started looking less promising, and investigators found that a major supporting study was fraudulent. But by this point it had gotten popular among conspiracy theorists as a suppressed coronavirus cure that They Don’t Want You To Know. The media has tried to spread the word

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01:28

New York Meetup This Monday

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/06

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/new-york-meetup-this-monday When: Monday, 9/6. I’ll be arriving at 5 PM but some other people might get there earlier, around 3. Where: swung.shape.shows, aka Teardrop Park in Lower Manhattan Who: Anyone who wants. Please feel free to come even if you feel awkward about it, even if you’re not “the typical ACX reader”, even if you’re worried people won’t like you, etc. Also, me! I’ll be there on my meetups tour and hope to meet many of you. The New York

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01:55

Boston Meetup This Sunday

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/04

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/boston-meetup-this-sunday When: Sunday, 9/5, 5 PM Where: area.bricks.tribune, aka John F Kennedy Park in Cambridge, near the picnic tables. Who: Anyone who wants. Please feel free to come even if you feel awkward about it, even if you’re not “the typical ACX reader”, even if you’re worried people won’t like you, etc. Also, me! I’ll be there on my meetups tour and hope to meet many of you. Some rationalist/EA leaders are focusing on Boston right now as a

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55:53

Long COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/03

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/long-covid-much-more-than-you-wanted Like everyone else, I'm trying to figure out how cautious I should be around COVID. It seems like the most important concern for young vaccinated people like myself is the risk of Long COVID symptoms, so I spent a while trying to figure out what those were. My basic conclusion is that everyone else is right, that news stories on this phenomenon seem remarkably good, and that there's not much we know for sure beyond the

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45:18

On Hreha On Behavioral Economics

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/09/01

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/on-hreha-on-behavioral-economics Jason Hreha’s article on The Death Of Behavioral Economics has been going around lately, after an experiment by behavioral econ guru Dan Ariely was discovered to be fraudulent. The article argues that this is the tip of the iceberg - looking back on the last few years of replication crisis, behavioral economics has been undermined almost to the point of irrelevance. The article itself mostly just urges behavioral economists to

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01:20

Berkeley Meetup This Saturday

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/27

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/berkeley-meetup-this-saturday When: Saturday, August 28, at 1 PM Where: deflection.jump.puppy, aka the lawn where West Circle meets Free Speech Bikeway near the UC Berkeley parking lot. Who: Anyone who wants. Please feel free to come even if you feel awkward about it, even if you’re not “the typical SSC reader”, even if you’re worried people won’t like you, etc. Also, me! I’m starting my meetups tour there. I’ll be announcing the meetups on the tour (about 15

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36:09

Highlights From The Comments On Missing School

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/27

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-missing [Original article: Kids Can Recover From Missing Even A Lot Of School] I. Many commenters shared their own stories of missing lots of school and bouncing back from it. For example, Rachel E: I was unschooled until I was 15, I'm pursuing a PhD now. Catching up on the basics wasn't easy but only took a few months. There are still a bunch of random general knowledge things I don't know, but at most it's caused a moment

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13:33

If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Governor Of...

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/27

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-governor Californians love long-shot bets. Actors trying to make it big in LA, tech founders chasing unicorns in San Francisco, cult leaders trying to found religions in Pasadena. In Silicon Valley, VCs turn the long-shot bet into an art: if some new startup has a 5% chance of making a billion, that's $50 million in expectation. Just a whole state full of people looking for weird opportunities. ...which makes it extra funny that

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37:14

Carbon Costs Quantified

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/26

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/carbon-costs-quantified This post tries to quantify how much carbon is produced by various activities, lifestyle changes, and actors. can’t stress enough how approximate and unreliable these numbers are. The reason I made this chart and other people didn’t isn’t because I’m smarter or harder-working than they are. It’s because I’m less responsible, and more willing to use numbers that are kind of grounded in wild guesses, and technically shouldn’t be

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56:55

Meetups Everywhere 2021: Times And Places

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/25

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/meetups-everywhere-2021-times-and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QFbM5B9KfsiwqO6DvJ4D05dQitBtZ6kYDwXZ3Hj6SEc/edit#gid=1585750313 Thanks to everyone who respond to my request for ACX outdoor meetup organizers. Volunteers have arranged meetups in 170 cities around the world, including beautiful Lusk, Wyoming (population: 1,526). You can see the full list here, and I’ll also have it below in case you can’t access the spreadsheet for some reason. I’ll

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38:16

Highlights From The Comments On Aducanumab

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/22

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-aducanumab These are highlights from the comments of Adumbrations Of Aducanumab, Details Of The Infant Fish Oil Story, and discussion of those posts elsewhere. C_B writes: I agree with this post's overall point that the FDA is not, on average, too lax, and that the Atlantic article's take that the aducanumab approval is a sign of them being too lax is a bad take. That said, I think the beginning of this article really

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23:22

Links For August

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/19

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-august [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: Ever wonder what happened to the Borgias after the Renaissance? Apparently they’re still around,

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28:47

Kids Can Recover From Missing Even Quite A Lot Of School

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/19

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/kids-can-recover-from-missing-even I. Introduction Back when the public schools were closed or online, someone I know burned themselves out working overtime to get the money to send their kid to a private school. They figured that all the other parents would do it, their kid would fall hopelessly behind, and then they’d be doomed to whatever sort of horrible fate awaits people who don’t get into the right colleges. I hear this is happening again now, with more

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06:13

Blindness, Schizophrenia, and Autism

Astral Codex Ten Podcast ·

2021/08/15

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/blindness-schizophrenia-and-autism Some weird psychiatric trivia: no congenitally blind person ever gets schizophrenia (journal article, popular article). “Trivia” is exactly the right word for this fact; it’s undeniably interesting, but what do you do with it? So far nobody has done anything, other than remark “hmm, that’s funny”. I was thinking about this recently in the context of the diametrical model of autism vs. schizophrenia. This is itself pretty

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