ACX Everywhere 2023 with Robin Hanson- Washington D.C. Edition Part 1

ACX Everywhere 2023

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 Washington DC in September of 2023. We recorded at the Froggy Bottom Pub on K street, and we had a great time. The location is awesome, great food, beautiful setting, and the staff were amazing, check them out if you're in town. Spoiler alert, the first voice you’re going to hear, in a moment, is Professor Robin Hanson, which is pretty cool. If you’re familiar with ACX you can skip the intro and jump ahead to the 2:45 timestamp. 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 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.

Finally, stay tuned for episode two, featuring almost two hours of further conversation in D.C., where we we get to talk with Professor Bryan Caplan.

Cheers,

Andrew