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Hidden Open Thread 444.5

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Alexander, S. (2026, August 20). Hidden Open Thread 444.5. Astral Codex Ten. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/hidden-open-thread-4445

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The article is from the blog "Astral Codex Ten" written by Scott Alexander.
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Written for “Reddit Outage Continues” on 2026-10-16, grounded in this article and the 0 other(s) covering the same event.

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Analyzed 2026-09-25 · source text last changed 2026-09-25 · how these are computed

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Astral Codex Ten · 53 article(s) · 3 correction(s) detected

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Scott Alexander

46 article(s) here · 0 carrying a prediction

🔮 AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have long mentioned the possibility that their products could be existentially dangerous, but this has recently crescendoed into even more dire warnings, including suggestions that we have to pace the frontier, ie coordinate to slow AI progress.

2026-10-15 · assertive framing · AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot

🔮 [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.

2026-10-10 · assertive framing · Your Book Review: We Present Television

🔮 When I objected that maybe we should wait for you to accept before figuring out details, they all said great, that’s absolutely right, they would contact you right away.

2026-10-06 · assertive framing · An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI

🔮 I’m pretty busy and will try to make up for it after that changes.

2026-10-05 · assertive framing · Open Thread 454

🔮 My wife and I could make healthy embryos, but none of the transfers were sticking.

2026-10-02 · assertive framing · Our AI Midwife

🔮 The challenger in that race, Jamie Joyce, contacted me and asked me to change my mind (both candidates will be facing off again in the general election).

2026-09-28 · assertive framing · Open Thread 453

🔮 [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.

2026-09-25 · assertive framing · Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs

🔮 In the public debates after the release of AI 2027, some people accused us of misleading readers by positing “neuralese recurrence”, a hypothetical technology that would allow AIs to think dangerous thoughts without getting detected.

2026-09-24 · assertive framing · The Specter Of Neuralese

🔮 If you trained an AI to give the 19th-century names for birds (eg identify the American Pipit by its 19th-century name “Brown Titlark”), then the AI would behave like a 19th-century person in general (for example, assert that a woman’s proper place is in the home).

2026-09-23 · assertive framing · Mysteries Of AI Generalization

🔮 1: Josh Morrison, who wrote the guest post about how AI Superforecasting Will Transform The FDA, will be doing a panel on the subject with former FDA employee Adam Kroetsch in SF on October 1.

2026-09-21 · assertive framing · Open Thread 452

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