This is a reported phenomenon where if two copies of Claude talk to each other, they end up spiraling... more

This is another heuristic from the same place as If It’s Worth Your Time To Lie, It’s Worth My... more

People don’t like nitpickers. “He literally did the WELL AKTUALLY!” If you say Joe Criminal committed ten murders and five... more

There’s a long-running philosophical argument about the conceivability of otherwise-normal people who are not conscious, aka “philosophical zombies”. This has... more

It's time to narrow the 141 entries in the Non-Book Review Contest to about a dozen finalists. I can't... more

A guest post by Brandon Hendrickson [Editor’s note: I accept guest posts from certain people, especially past Book Review Contest... more

Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution continues to disagree with my Contra MR On Charity Regrants. Going through his... more

Consciousness is the great mystery. In search of answers, scientists have plumbed every edge case they can think of -... more

I often disagree with Marginal Revolution, but their post today made me a new level of angry: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-mr-on-charity-regrants

Many commenters responded to yesterday’s post by challenging the claim that 1.2 million Americans died of COVID... https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-evidence-that-a-million-americans