Sep 29 2023 33 mins
Hello, and Welcome to ACX Everywhere 2023.
I’m Andrew Willsen, and this episode is a series of candid conversations recorded at an ACX Everywhere Meetup in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September of 2023. We recorded at the Philadelphia Ethical Society, and we had a great time with ACX organizer Wes Fanza of The Mind Killer podcast along with some great takes on Russian Literature and Science Fiction Fan Culture. Thanks (EA) for the dim sum. We recorded on Petrov Day, and the reading that is discussed in the first part of the podcast can be found here. If you are not familiar with Petrov Day you should immediately click HERE and read about the incident, pretty fucking heroic.
If you're new here, ACX stands for Astral Codex Ten, which is a rationalist blog written by Scott Alexander. Scott is a doctor on the US West Coast, and is currently working on new models for mental health care at Lorien Psychiatry.
I'm doing this podcast because it's hard to know what an ACX meetup is if you've never been to one, mostly because people don't believe you when you tell them about it. My hope is that these recordings will make it easier for people to discover ACX and to hopefully get a sense of whether or not ACX might be for them. And, just to make it more personal, if you want more high quality conversations in your life, ACX might be for you.
If you’re interested in attending an ACX Meetup in Fall of 2023, click here. You will find a list of over 170 meetups happening around the world in September and October of 2023, hopefully there is one near you.
Thanks for checking out these conversations, I hope you find them as interesting as I do. If you are interested in hearing more conversations about ideas associated with Rationalism check out the podcast Rationally Speaking, with Julia Galef, it's great.
Cheers,