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Highlights From The Comments On The Substack Religion Debate

Scott defends his dismissal of the Substack religion debate against charges of hypocrisy and engages with technical objections about Kolmogorov complexity, arguing that 'mind without limits' isn't actually simple and that explaining multiple anomalies with God is like explaining Napoleon's success with aliens.

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Aug 25, 2026 4,984 words 148 likes 433 comments Listen · 28 min Read Read Opened Opened

My AI Opinions

Scott provides detailed probabilistic timelines and beliefs about AGI development, AI safety, geopolitics, and future outcomes, with his median expectation being AGI in 2031 and 20% probability of existential catastrophe given current safety efforts.

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Jun 11, 2026 6,548 words 421 likes 623 comments Listen · 38 min Read Read Opened Opened

Book Review: Deep Utopia

Scott Alexander reviews Nick Bostrom's 'Deep Utopia', which explores the concept of a technologically perfect utopia and discusses how to maintain meaning and purpose in such a world.

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Oct 17, 2024 5,151 words 256 likes 567 comments Listen · 30 min Read Read Opened Opened

Interview Day At Thiel Capital

Scott Alexander presents a series of satirical job interviews at Thiel Capital, where candidates share increasingly absurd unpopular beliefs, highlighting the nature of conspiracy theories and contrarian thinking.

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Sep 3, 2024 2,459 words 547 likes 302 comments Listen · 15 min Read Read Opened Opened

Don’t Fear The Simulators

Scott Alexander argues against the fear of angering simulators by testing if we're in a simulation, stating that competent simulators would prevent discovery or expect such tests as part of civilizational development.

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Aug 21, 2019 678 words 0 likes 220 comments Listen · 6 min Read Read Opened Opened

The Hour I First Believed

Scott Alexander speculates on how concepts from decision theory and AI could lead to the emergence of a God-like entity across the multiverse, which judges and potentially rewards human behavior.

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Apr 1, 2018 2,790 words 0 likes 332 comments Listen · 21 min Read Read Opened Opened

The View From Ground Level

Scott explores the implications of Sean Carroll's argument against the simulation hypothesis, suggesting that our inability to explain consciousness might indicate we're in a 'ground-level' simulation.

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Aug 23, 2016 603 words 0 likes 353 comments Read Read Opened Opened
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