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  • Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later

    October 28, 2026 · 56 min

    A guest post by Lars Doucet   Hi, this is Lars Doucet, author of the book review of Henry George's Progress and Poverty that won the first ACX book review contest, as well as the three-part follow-up guest post series, "Does Georgism…

  • The Specter Of Neuralese

    October 28, 2026 · 23 min

    I. At Long Last, We Have Created Neuralese Recurrence, From The Classic Sci-Fi Novel "Don't Create Neuralese Recurrence" In the public debates after the release of AI 2027, some people accused us of misleading readers by positing…

  • Mysteries Of AI Generalization

    October 28, 2026 · 19 min

    I. Owain Evans In 2025, Owain Evans et al published a paper on "emergent misalignment". They trained a previously-aligned AI to do one immoral thing: write insecure code full of vulnerabilities and backdoors. To their surprise, the AI…

  • Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt

    October 28, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Finalist #9 in the Book Review Contest [This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I'll be posting about one of these a week for several…

  • AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA

    October 28, 2026 · 9 min

    This is a guest post by ACX grantee Josh Morrison of 1DaySooner. AI superforecasters are coming. Within a few years, the average person will have the equivalent of a Nate Silver in their pocket, ready to predict whatever question they can…

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  • King Ludd

    October 28, 2026 · 18 min

    I. In the gods' great scramble for human followers, Nodens would seem to have lost decisively. We know him only from vague inscriptions at two archaeological sites near the Welsh-English border. One might have been his temple. He seems…

  • Royce On San Francisco

    October 28, 2026 · 15 min

    These are all excerpts from Josiah Royce's 1886 book, A History Of California From Conquest In 1846 To The Second Vigilance Committee In San Francisco: A Study Of American Character, which terminates in 1856. I've edited only to remove…

  • God Help Us, Let's Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques

    October 28, 2026 · 36 min

    The Story So Far Mechanistic interpretability is the science of "reading an AI's mind". Large language models are "grown, not built". Researchers run training data through a neural network. Eventually this creates a working AI; nobody…

  • Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji

    October 5, 2026 · 56 min

    Finalist #8 in the Book Review Contest This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I'll be posting about one of these a week for several…

  • Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy

    October 5, 2026 · 28 min

    I am Daniel Böttger1. In 2023, my review of On The Marble Cliffs took second in the ACX book review contest, and Scott offered me the right to pitch him more essays. I have worked as a neuroscientist, so in 2024 I pitched a post with my…

  • Nicholas Decker In Hell

    October 5, 2026 · 32 min

    I. Econblogger Nicholas Decker is not a fan of AI 2040: One of the centerpieces of AI 2040 is the proposal that we pause the development of AI at a high level, use the AI to research alignment, and only then proceed. I am skeptical of…

  • Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart's Translation Of Rabelais

    October 5, 2026 · 37 min

    Finalist #7 in the Book Review Contest [This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I'll be posting about one of these a week for several…

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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.