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Choose Book Review Finalists 2026
Scott announces the finalist selection phase for the 2026 Book Review Contest, asking readers to help rate 162 entries using a new website built by Rob Ennals.
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Book Review Contest Rules 2026
Scott announces the 2026 book review contest with a May 20th deadline, requiring anonymized submissions via Google Form, offering prizes of at least $2,500/$1,000/$500 for the top three winners.
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ACX Classifieds 1/26
Scott opens a classifieds thread for readers to advertise employment, dating, blogs, products, meetups and other services in organized categories with guidelines for respectful posting.
1 min read 117 words
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Suggest Questions For Metaculus/ACX Forecasting Contest
Scott asks readers to suggest questions for the 2026 ACX/Metaculus forecasting contest, with prizes for the top ten contributors and AI bots competing this year.
2 min read 259 words
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Non-Book Review Contest 2025 Winners
Scott announces the winners and finalists of the 2025 Non-Book Review Contest, with prizes ranging from free subscriptions to $2500, and provides bios for all the winning authors.
12 min read 1,827 words
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Vote In The 2025 Non-Book Review Contest
Scott opens voting for the 2025 Non-Book Review Contest finalists, listing all thirteen entries and providing a link to the ranked-choice voting form.
2 min read 234 words
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Your Review: The Astral Codex Ten Commentariat (“Why Do We Suck?”)
A data-driven analysis of the ACX/SSC comment section quality over time reveals historical peaks and valleys, with recent signs of improvement after previous declines in 2016 and 2021.
74 min read 11,423 words
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Everything-Except-Book Review Contest 2025
Scott announces a contest for reviews of anything except books, with prizes ranging from $500 to $2,500, due May 12th.
4 min read 587 words
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Ask Me Anything (2/2025)
Scott announces a new subscriber-only AMA session, setting clear boundaries about which questions he will and won't answer.
1 min read 111 words
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Subscrive Drive '25 + Free Unlocked Posts
Scott makes his annual pitch for paid subscriptions to Astral Codex Ten, detailing benefits, showing subscription trends, and listing past subscriber-only content while unlocking two posts as previews.
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Book Review Contest 2024 Winners
Scott Alexander announces the winners and finalists of the 2024 Book Review Contest, with prizes for the top three reviews.
10 min read 1,500 words
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Predictions For 2022
Scott Alexander shares his predictions for 2022 on various topics, comments on predictions from other sources, and announces a prediction contest for readers.
15 min read 2,236 words
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Please Take The Reader Survey [Update: Now It Is Closed And You Can Stop Taking It]
Scott Alexander describes a now-closed reader survey project supporting ACX community studies, with instructions on survey completion and content warnings.
5 min read 736 words
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Book Review Contest: Winners
Scott Alexander announces the winners of the Book Review Contest, lists all finalists, and explains the prizes, including increased monetary awards.
5 min read 674 words
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ACX Reader Research Survey: Call For Submissions
Scott Alexander announces the ACX Reader Research Survey, inviting researchers to submit questions for the blog's readership by July 10.
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