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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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Meditations on Moloch [Classic]

Meditations on Moloch [Classic]

[Content note: Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!] I. Al... Read more

13 Jan 2018

1hr 46mins

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[ACC Entry] When During Fetal Development Does Abortion Become Morally Wrong?

[ACC Entry] When During Fetal Development Does Abortion Become Morally Wrong?

Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/19/acc-when-during-fetal-development-does-abortion-become-morally-wrong/ [This... Read more

20 Dec 2019

34mins

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Technological Unemployment Much More Than You Wanted to Know

Technological Unemployment Much More Than You Wanted to Know

[I am not an economist or an expert on this topic. This is my attempt to figure out what economists and experts think so... Read more

20 Feb 2018

55mins

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God Help Us, Let’s Try to Understand Friston on Free Energy

God Help Us, Let’s Try to Understand Friston on Free Energy

I’ve been trying to delve deeper into predictive processing theories of the brain, and I keep coming across Karl Friston... Read more

5 Mar 2018

32mins

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The Economic Perspective on Moral Standards

The Economic Perspective on Moral Standards

[Content warning: scrupulosity] I. “There is no ethical consumption under late capitalism”. I hear this from a bunch of ... Read more

17 Nov 2018

21mins

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Paradigms All the Way Down

Paradigms All the Way Down

Related to: Book Review: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions Every good conspiracy theorist needs their own Grand Un... Read more

12 Jan 2019

6mins

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Kavanaugh: A Probability Poll

Kavanaugh: A Probability Poll

There’s some literature suggesting that people are more careful when they think in probabilities. If you ask them for a ... Read more

9 Oct 2018

10mins

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The Invention of Moral Narrative

The Invention of Moral Narrative

H/T Robin Hanson: Aeon’s The Good Guy / Bad Guy Myth. “Pop culture today is obsessed with the battle between good and ev... Read more

31 Jan 2018

16mins

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The Whole City is Center

The Whole City is Center

Related to yesterday’s post on people being too quick to assume value differences: some of the simplest fake value diffe... Read more

21 Jul 2018

39mins

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Book Review: Inadequate Equilibria

Book Review: Inadequate Equilibria

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s catchily-titled Inadequate Equilibria is many things. It’s a look into whether there is any role for... Read more

1 Dec 2017

59mins

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Considerations on Cost Disease [Classic]

Considerations on Cost Disease [Classic]

I. Tyler Cowen writes about cost disease. I’d previously heard the term used to refer only to a specific theory of why c... Read more

29 Jun 2019

50mins

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Nighttime Ventilation Survey Results

Nighttime Ventilation Survey Results

Thanks to the 129 people who tried altering their nighttime carbon dioxide levels after my post on this, and who reporte... Read more

6 Oct 2018

6mins

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Book Review: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Book Review: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/27/book-review-the-seven-principles-for-making-marriage-work/ I. John Gottman is a... Read more

1 Mar 2020

53mins

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The Toxoplasma of Rage [Classic]

The Toxoplasma of Rage [Classic]

“Nobody makes an IRC channel for no reason. Who are we doing this versus?” — topic of #slatestarcodex I. Some old news... Read more

3 Aug 2018

51mins

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Book Review: Evolutionary Psychopathology

Book Review: Evolutionary Psychopathology

I. Evolutionary psychology is famous for having lots of stories that make sense but are hard to test. Psychiatry is famo... Read more

5 Dec 2018

41mins

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GPT-2 as Step Toward General Intelligence

GPT-2 as Step Toward General Intelligence

A machine learning researcher writes me in response to yesterday’s post, saying: I still think GPT-2 is a brute-force st... Read more

21 Feb 2019

27mins

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[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition?

[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition?

[This is an entry to the Adversarial Collaboration Contest by flame7926 and a_reader.] [Content note: suicide, depressio... Read more

9 Sep 2018

48mins

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Book Review: Albion's Seed [Classic]

Book Review: Albion's Seed [Classic]

I. Albion’s Seed by David Fischer is a history professor’s nine-hundred-page treatise on patterns of early immigration ... Read more

13 Mar 2019

1hr 10mins

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Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞)

Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞)

A surprisingly common part of my life: a patient asks me for a doctor’s note for back pain or something. Usually it’s a ... Read more

31 Aug 2018

5mins

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Did a Melatonin Patent Inspire Current Dose Confusion?

Did a Melatonin Patent Inspire Current Dose Confusion?

Yesterday I wrote about melatonin, mentioning that most drugstore melatonin supplements were 10x or more the recommended... Read more

14 Jul 2018

7mins

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