Astral Codex Ten Podcast

Aug 28, 2026

Finalist #4 in the Book Review Contest

[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. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so...

Aug 28, 2026

[Original here. Like a Highlights From The Comments post, but including discussion from around the Internet.]

Roon is an OpenAI researcher whose popular Twitter presence has catapulted him to the status of extremely-unofficial company representative. He seems spooked:

Aug 28, 2026

[continued from Part 1 here. I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can’t guarantee I will...

Aug 28, 2026

People act like the replication crisis has discredited psychology, that the field is now widely agreed to be a sham, that it can be uncontroversially held up as an example of science gone wrong. These statements are often made in the broadest possible terms:

Aug 28, 2026

The story: OpenAI was testing an unreleased AI (rumored to be GPT-6)¹. During a cybersecurity test called ExploitGym, the AI tried to cheat by hacking an unrelated AI startup called Hugging Face² which it thought...