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Take The 2026 ACX Survey

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Alexander, S. (2026, August 27). Take The 2026 ACX Survey. Astral Codex Ten. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/take-the-2026-acx-survey

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The author of a blog is conducting a reader survey, now open until about September 10, to gather data on various topics such as readers' characteristics and interests. The survey is expected to take 30-45 minutes to complete. One randomly selected respondent will receive a free one-year paid subscription as an incentive.

Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-08-27, using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the same event (that is the story summary below).

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Story summary

Scott Alexander, the author of the Astral Codex Ten blog, has posted his annual reader survey to gather data on various topics. The survey aims to replicate psychological findings and investigate interesting hypotheses, and past years have included questions on birth order effects, mathematical interests, sexual harassment, and internet addiction. This year's survey is expected to take around 30-45 minutes to complete. As an incentive, Alexander will randomly select one respondent to receive a free one-year paid subscription to the blog. The survey is open until approximately September 10, allowing readers to participate before it closes.

Written for “2026 American College Experience Survey” on 2026-10-16, grounded in this article and the 0 other(s) covering the same event.

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Claims extracted

sentences that state something as happening or true

Uncertain

0 of 9 hedged ("reportedly", "may", "according to")

Leaning

not political

takes no side on a contested political question

Publisher signals

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these signals count newsroom corrections; Commentary has none to count

Outlets on this story

Education

Same framing elsewhere

articles that frame the event the way this one does

Analyzed 2026-08-27 · how these are computed

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Publisher

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

No corrections detected for this publisher. That may mean careful reporting, or simply that nothing has been checked.

Who wrote this

Scott Alexander

46 article(s) here · 1 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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2026-10-15 · Astral Codex Ten

Open Thread 455

2026-10-13 · Astral Codex Ten

Your Book Review: We Present Television

2026-10-10 · Astral Codex Ten

An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI

2026-10-06 · Astral Codex Ten

Nothing else under this byline is closely related to this article, so these are simply their most recent.

All 46 articles by Scott Alexander →

Topics

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Narrative

Some highlights from past years include birth order effects, mathematical interests vs. corn-eating style, sexual harassment victimization rates in different fields, whether all our kids are going to have autism, wisdom of inner crowds, failed replication of anti-vax polls, and Internet addiction.

framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-08-27

🔮 This year’s survey will probably take 30 - 45 minutes.

2026-08-27 · Astral Codex Ten

Take The 2026 ACX Survey · assertive framing

Claims (9 extracted, 0 hedged)

Each year, I post a reader survey. asserted

I → post → survey

This helps me learn who’s reading this blog. asserted

who → help → blog

But it also helps me try to replicate psych findings and investigate interesting hypotheses. asserted

me → help → hypotheses

kids → include → polls

This year’s survey will probably take 30 - 45 minutes. asserted

survey → take → minutes

As an incentive to perform this public service, I’ll give a free one-year paid subscriptions to one randomly-selected survey respondent (subject to a challenge, which you can find at the bottom). asserted

you → perform → bottom

The survey will be open until about September 10, so try to take it before then. asserted

survey → try → it

If you notice any problems, please ask yourself “Is this a real objection rather than a nitpick? asserted

this → notice → yourself

Will real people genuinely be confused/upset with this wording?” - and if the answer is yes, comment here so I can fix it. asserted

I → confuse → it