Astral Codex Ten - Open Thread 298
This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world. 95% of content is free, but for the remaining 5% you can subscribe here. Also: 1: Sorry, I scheduled the Berkeley fall ACX meetup for next Saturday, but my schedule has changed and I won’t be able to go. Meetups Czar Skyler and lots of other great people will still be there, so have fun without me! 2: One of the recent impact market forecasting projects, OPTIC, asks me to broadcast the following appeal:
3: Updates on the AI pause debate:
4: Steve Hsu asks me to link his appeal for why you should support the Stanford Mathematically Precocious Youth Study; go here to donate. 5: The New York Times recently published an article about the Manifest prediction market conference. I think it’s overall very good, and appreciate the care that the reporter put in to understanding the ideas (plus the frankly majestic picture of the Manifold co-founders). I do want to correct one paragraph, though:
I think a natural reading of this sentence is that Astral Codex Ten received $1 million from the FTX Future Fund. Some people who read the article said they understood it this way and thought I took FTX money. I didn’t. The article meant to say that Manifold did. I appreciate NYT moving from its previous policy of blatant and deliberate falsehoods about me, to a newer, kinder policy of accidental and ambiguous falsehoods about me. That’s the first step towards not publishing any falsehoods about me at all! Still, I want to set the record straight. A related NYT podcast also discussed Manifest and prediction markets; see here for partial transcript. You're currently a free subscriber to Astral Codex Ten. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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