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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.
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AI Futures: Blogging And AMA
Scott announces his collaboration with AI Futures Project's blog and their upcoming AMA, highlighting recent posts including one about AI time horizons that was validated by new OpenAI data.
3 min read 415 words
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ACX Classifieds 4/25
Scott announces an irregular classifieds thread where readers can post advertisements under specific categories, with guidelines for respectful engagement.
1 min read 117 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.
7 min read 1,050 words
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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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This Week: Adversarial Collaboration Entries
Scott Alexander introduces four adversarial collaboration contest entries to be published over the week, with a subsequent reader vote to determine the $1000 prize winner.
2 min read 298 words
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Classified Ads Thread
Scott proposes a classified ads thread for readers to post various ads, including personal ads for women and gay people, while he's away at a conference.
1 min read 46 words
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AI Persuasion Followup Survey
Scott Alexander requests participants of last month's AI persuasion experiment survey to complete a brief followup survey, providing a link.
1 min read 62 words
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Housekeeping Post April 2014
Scott gives a housekeeping update on his blog, covering his work schedule, a fellow blogger's status, comment policies, and medical advice requests.
3 min read 378 words
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A New Chapter In The Codex
Scott Alexander announces reduced blogging frequency due to starting full-time work, expecting content to focus more on medicine and psychiatry.
3 min read 331 words
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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Scott announces the 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey and encourages all readers to take it, emphasizing that the optional extra credit questions shouldn't prevent anyone from completing the main survey.
3 min read 430 words
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2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
Scott announces a new Less Wrong census and survey to replace the outdated 2009 version, maintaining its structure for comparison while fixing problems and updating questions.
2 min read 260 words
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Dungeons and Discourse implementation
Scott announces his implementation of 'Dungeons and Discourse,' a philosophy-meets-fantasy RPG, and seeks players for an IRC campaign, particularly those with diverse philosophical views.
2 min read 264 words
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Consequentialism FAQ
Scott shares a draft FAQ arguing for consequentialism, targeting intelligent readers without philosophy backgrounds, and requests feedback especially from non-consequentialists.
1 min read 133 words
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V is for Value Maximizing Agent: London, November 5
Scott announces a London rationality meetup on November 5th (Guy Fawkes Day) at Waterstone's in Piccadilly Circus, humorously noting he's again scheduling it on a holiday despite promising otherwise.
1 min read 118 words
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Return of the Survey
Scott announces the official survey is ready with a link, noting it uses percentage format for probabilities and will be open for about a week before results are calculated.
2 min read 270 words