👤 Scott Alexander

25 articles tracked

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Written from 25 articles, last analysed 2026-08-31. The text itself is generated again each time this page is opened.

About this journalist

Articles
25
2026-08-18 – 2026-08-31
Claims per article
132
3,296 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
18,564
characters
Writes for Astral Codex Ten.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Technology
40%
Other
16%
Entertainment
12%
Education
8%
Politics
8%
Science
8%
Most-tagged topics
ACXDiscordBostonAmazonBerkeleyBritainChinaOpenAI

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages +0.60 (leans strongly right).

More from this journalist

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2026-08-31 · Astral Codex Ten · Other
Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-31 · Astral Codex Ten · Technology
Open Thread 449
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-28 · Astral Codex Ten · Other
Hidden Open Thread 448.5
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-27 · Astral Codex Ten · Other
Take The 2026 ACX Survey
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-26 · Astral Codex Ten · Entertainment
Highlights From The Comments On The Substack Religion Debate
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-25 · Astral Codex Ten · Politics
Re: Re: Re: Pritchard On Liberal Happiness
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly right

What they said would happen

2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
Your Book Review: The Escape Artist
🔮 [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. assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party
🔮 Which of the two voices you hear depends on your personality, and maybe how many psychedelics you took in college. assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night
🔮 Feed it to rats, and their livers will go into overdrive, producing more and more CYP1A2 to tear up the intruder. assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 446
🔮 1: Comments of the week: FutureSearch founder Dan Schwarz on what the correlation between accuracy and time horizon tells us about the ceiling on forecasting, and Frikgeek on chess engine handicapping. 2: assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
MacGregor The Bridge Builder
🔮 For a while, the culture enforced conformity just by making sure that the slightest deviation would become 100% of your reputation. assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
Open Questions On Open Weights
🔮 If AI becomes the linchpin of the future, open weights AI feels like the sort of thing that could be the difference between being free yeomen vs. corporate serfs. assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
The Beauty Of Settled Science
🔮 Mental hospitalization can sometimes defuse immediate crises but work less well than mental hospitals would like, with some studies showing overall negative effects. assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top?
🔮 Superforecasting is the art/science/sport of predicting the future - for example, who will win elections, which countries will fight wars, when key technologies will be discovered. assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 445
🔮 They ask me to advertise that they’re looking for a COO / operational co-founder, who will: ...work side-by-side with Geoffrey Irving on organisational strategy: how to prioritise hiring? assertive
2026-08-18 · Astral Codex Ten
Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh
🔮 [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. assertive
2026-08-19 · Astral Codex Ten
Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate
🔮 There are many reasons to believe in such assistance: Napoleon’s rise from Corsican nobody to Emperor and would-be world conqueror was a bizarre deviation from the usual pattern of history. assertive
2026-08-19 · Astral Codex Ten
Links For July 2026 (Part 2)
🔮 On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. assertive
2026-08-19 · Astral Codex Ten
Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident
🔮 I remember when arguments about AI were things like “Sure, if you could magically get billions of dollars of compute, and magically scale AI up a thousand times, and magically get rid of hallucinations…” and the whole implausibility hinged on the word “magic”! assertive
2026-08-21 · Astral Codex Ten
College EA Meetups Everywhere: Call For Organizers
🔮 We (ACX and an effective altruist organization called Nest who are sponsoring this) will give you free advertising and cover your costs. assertive
2026-08-24 · Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 448
🔮 Matt says his highest priority colleges that don’t have an organizer yet are MIT, Claremont, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Amherst, Notre Dame, Duke, CalTech, Georgetown, UCLA, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Harvard, NYU, Williams, GWU, American University, Rutgers, and UNC Chapel Hill. assertive
2026-08-24 · Astral Codex Ten
Your Book Review: A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands
🔮 [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. assertive
2026-08-25 · Astral Codex Ten
Re: Re: Re: Pritchard On Liberal Happiness
🔮 I don’t know, but he may have misinterpreted my original tweet as saying income doesn’t matter at all, in which case this data functions as an effective rebuttal. assertive
2026-08-26 · Astral Codex Ten
Highlights From The Comments On The Substack Religion Debate
🔮 It’s not necessarily wrong to deprioritize a topic because it vaguely reminds you of something that you have negative affect toward, but I would prefer these people admit they’re dismissing/ignoring it rather than claim to be engaging with it. assertive
2026-08-27 · Astral Codex Ten
Take The 2026 ACX Survey
🔮 This year’s survey will probably take 30 - 45 minutes. assertive
2026-08-31 · Astral Codex Ten
Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais
🔮 [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. assertive
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