Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #astralcodexten, aggregated by home.social.
"Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection […] it is getting harder and harder and we don’t know what to do."
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today
Via #AstralCodexTen
A bold short-term prediction about AI progress by "superforecasters" (who don't seem to use coding agents a lot): "We think that 2025 and 2026 will see gradually improving AI agents. In 2027, coding agents will finally be good enough to substantially boost AI R&D itself, causing an intelligence explosion that plows through the human level sometime in mid-2027 and reaches superintelligence by early 2028."
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-ai-2027
This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead - The A.I. prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom. A report released on Thursd... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/technology/ai-futures-project-ai-2027.html #alleninstituteforartificialintelligence #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #astralcodexten(blog) #kokotajlodaniel #openailabs #research
Asking mostly because I'm worried about my father, but is #AstralCodexTen a part of the #AltRightPipeline? I've read a lot of the guy's early stuff (pre-2019) and it was really interesting, but the more recent (2020-2023) stuff feels icky, and I can't put my finger on why
Your Book Review: How Language Began
Finalist No.5 in the Book Review Contest.
A highly recommended book review about a book by Daniel Everett, "How Language Began" in which he basically says that almost everything Noam Chomsky ever said is wrong.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-how-language-began
Oleg Kostour 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X: "Here's the latest polling data from the US by @BrookingsInst on support for Ukraine. 58% of Republicans, 62% of Independents and 76% of Democrats side with Ukraine. As opposed to 4%, 2% and 1% (respectively) siding with Russia. General support amongst the American public is https://t.co/IXfwDFwTNs" / X
https://x.com/OlegKostour/status/1828156979078127852
That's right, hardly anyone in the US wants Russia to defeat #Ukraine.
Via #AstralCodexTen
Scott Alexander: Interview Day At Thiel Capital
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/interview-day-at-thiel-capital
#SlateStarCodex
#AstralCodexTen #PeterThiel #Tech #TaxTheRich #Libertarianism
@mike Long, long articles are one of the weak points of the author; but at his best he's laugh-out-loud funny.
The Wager That Betting Can Change the World - A coterie of tech insiders believe that “prediction markets” can fix social ills. Are the... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/technology/prediction-markets-manifold-manifest.html #computersandtheinternet #pollsandpublicopinion #astralcodexten(blog) #bankman-friedsam #eliezeryudkowsky #manifoldmarkets
The whole of #SlateStarCodex (#AstralCodexTen) summarised down to one paragraph by a redditor:
“Science is hard. Coordination is hard. Change is coming. Be kind to each other.”
Good news everyone! My favorite blog is now crossposted to the fediverse (unofficially) #AstralCodexTen
@puffer https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/universe-hopping-through-substack made me aware of a defunct service that linked to a randomly selected tweet, advertised as “a live demo that most people on twitter are not like you.”
People could use a reminder of that, about the internet and world in general, a lot more often.
This continues to be one of the best book reviews I have ever read, and a very convincing economic argument
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progress-and-poverty
Any fans of #slatestarcodex #astralcodexten in the fediverse? Looking for someone to follow. 🤓
Silicon Valley’s Safe Space - Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html #freedomofspeechandexpression #blogsandblogging(internet) #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley(calif) #scienceandtechnology #writingandwriters #raceandethnicity #slatestarcodex #astralcodexten #namespersonal #womenandgirls #siskindscott #rationalists