Open Thread 340

This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world. 95% of content is free, but for the remaining 5% you can subscribe here. Also:

1: Open Philanthropy (a major AI safety funder) is accepting grant applications relating to technical alignment, policy, law, et cetera.

2: I plan to write about GLP-1 receptor agonists for addiction pretty soon. Nicholas Reville’s Center for Addiction Science Policy & Research is one of the first organizations thinking about this from a public policy perspective, and they’re looking for a COO / Strategy Director.

3: Good comments on last week’s Links post:

• Moral Particle on why it’s easy to circumvent Ban The Box.

• Additional reviews of Bad Therapy by Wesley Fenza and Leah Libresco.

• Linch with a funny story on how the 1906 SF earthquake affected the Chinese-American community.

• Mike Hawke points out that despite the new legislation promoting nuclear power, Metaculus’ forecast of US nuclear power in 2050 hasn’t budged.

• Erusian on the Argentine economy, plus some bonus linguistic detective work.

• Christophe Biocca says that the graph of consumption is cherry-picked and not interesting.

• GJM finds that Musk’s grandfather was a local leader of Technocracy Inc, not (as I wrote) a national leader.

• Mr. X against Indo-European eschatology claims.