[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 ...

[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 ...

And I’ll try to post my Oakland guide tomorrow. 2: New meetups for the coming month: Berkeley, Beijing, and Kansas City. Check the meetup list for details.

[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 ...

A technician at a Siberian lab has died of yersinia infection aka plague. The details are fuzzy, but the lab seems to have been working with pneumonic plague, an especially contagious and dangerous ...

This is a guest post by Drew Housman, whose review of Dominion earned finalist status in the 2024 ACX book review contest. If you are unsuccessful for long enough on your pregnancy journey, and none ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The San Franciscans at this moment, living in their rag palaces, or renting them at figures that would have sounded possible in the Arabian Nights . . . seemed more like madmen than ever. A ...

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 ...