Scott opens voting for the 2025 Non-Book Review Contest finalists, listing all thirteen entries and providing a link to the ranked-choice voting form. Longer summary

Scott Alexander announces voting for the 2025 Non-Book Review Contest finalists, providing links to all thirteen finalist entries and the voting form. The post lists the diverse topics of the finalists, ranging from education and science to personal experiences and historical events. Voting will use ranked choice format where voters pick their top three choices, and closes on October 13. Shorter summary

Scott announces his collaboration with AI Futures Project's blog and their upcoming AMA, highlighting recent posts including one about AI time horizons that was validated by new OpenAI data. Longer summary

Scott Alexander announces he will be shifting most of his AI blogging to the AI Futures Project blog, where he has already co-written several posts. He highlights three recent posts, particularly one about AI time horizons that was validated by new OpenAI data showing faster horizon growth than previously estimated. He also announces an upcoming AMA with the AI Futures Project team on ACX. Shorter summary

Scott announces an irregular classifieds thread where readers can post advertisements under specific categories, with guidelines for respectful engagement. Longer summary

This is a thread post announcing the irregular ACX classifieds where readers can post advertisements in the comments under specific categories: Employment, Dating, Read My Blog, Consume My Product/Service, Meetup, or Other. Scott includes some guidelines about being respectful, especially regarding dating ads, and provides useful links to EA job boards and meetup finders. Shorter summary

Scott makes his annual pitch for paid subscriptions to Astral Codex Ten, detailing benefits, showing subscription trends, and listing past subscriber-only content while unlocking two posts as previews. Longer summary

Scott announces his annual subscription drive for Astral Codex Ten, showing subscription trends since the blog's start and listing the subscriber-only posts from the past year. The post explains the benefits of subscribing ($10/month or $2.50 for students/hardship cases), shows how subscriptions peaked early then declined, and lists all twelve subscriber-only posts from the previous year. Scott emphasizes he's financially comfortable but would like to do better than break-even, and unlocks two old subscriber-only posts as a preview. Shorter summary

Scott Alexander announces the winners and finalists of the 2024 Book Review Contest, with prizes for the top three reviews. Longer summary

Scott Alexander announces the winners of the 2024 Book Review Contest. The top three winners are Amanda's review of 'Two Arms And A Head', David Matolcsi's review of 'Nine Lives', and Jack Thorlin's review of 'How The War Was Won'. The post lists the other finalists and honorable mentions, providing brief descriptions of the reviewers. Scott mentions potential changes to the contest format for future years, considering an 'Everything-Except-Book-Reviews' contest for next year. Shorter summary

Scott Alexander introduces four adversarial collaboration contest entries to be published over the week, with a subsequent reader vote to determine the $1000 prize winner. Longer summary

Scott Alexander announces the publication of four entries from the adversarial collaboration contest. These collaborations involve two people with opposing views on a controversial topic working together to present a unified summary of evidence and implications. The four entries cover topics such as the US education system's service to advanced students, Islam's compatibility with liberal democracy, mandatory childhood vaccination, and transitioning for transgender children. Scott will post one entry per day and then open a poll for readers to vote on their favorite, with his own vote counting for 5% of the total. The winning entry will receive a $1000 prize, funded by Patreon donations. Shorter summary

Scott proposes a classified ads thread for readers to post various ads, including personal ads for women and gay people, while he's away at a conference. Longer summary

Scott Alexander announces he's away at a conference and won't be blogging. Instead, he proposes a classified ads thread where readers can post ads for jobs, housing, products, websites, and other items. He also allows personal ads from women and gay people, noting that given the demographics of his readership, it might not be worthwhile for straight men to post personal ads. Shorter summary

Scott Alexander requests participants of last month's AI persuasion experiment survey to complete a brief followup survey, providing a link. Longer summary

Scott Alexander is requesting participants who took part in the AI persuasion experiment survey last month to complete a brief followup survey. He provides a link to the survey and assures participants that they don't need to read anything this time. He specifically asks those who didn't participate in the original survey not to take this followup. Shorter summary

Scott gives a housekeeping update on his blog, covering his work schedule, a fellow blogger's status, comment policies, and medical advice requests. Longer summary

Scott Alexander provides a housekeeping update on his blog. He mentions his upcoming busy schedule due to an inpatient medicine rotation, which may affect his posting frequency. He addresses concerns about a fellow blogger, Ozy, who briefly deleted their blog. Scott also requests that readers not send blog comments via email, advises against seeking medical advice from him, and humorously mentions a forgotten point about Facebook. Shorter summary

Scott Alexander announces reduced blogging frequency due to starting full-time work, expecting content to focus more on medicine and psychiatry. Longer summary

Scott Alexander announces significant changes to his blogging routine due to starting full-time work in medicine and psychiatry. He expects to reduce his posting frequency from daily to weekly or a few times a month, and anticipates his blog content shifting more towards medical and psychiatric topics. Scott has also created a Twitter account for shorter thoughts and is seeking help with a Bitcoin transaction. The post has a personal tone and serves as an update to his readers about these upcoming changes. Shorter summary