This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/), Discord (https://discord.gg/RTKtdut), and bulletin board (https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php), and in-person meetups around the world (https://www.lesswrong.com/community?filters%5B0%5D=SSC). Most content is free, some is subscriber only; you can subscribe here (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/subscribe?). Also: 1: ACX Grantee Stephen Grugett (of Manifold Markets) wants me to announce his latest project: MNX (https://testnet.mnx.fi/), “a decentralized futures exchange targeting sophisticated traders and focused on the AI economy”. It’s a real-money platform where traders who want to hedge their AI plays can bet on benchmark progress, compute prices, etc. Announcement here (https://x.com/MNX_fi/status/2024213013126140183), testnet here (https://testnet.mnx.fi/). 2: I think I got my tone wrong on last week’s Open Thread and made people think I was condemning the Harper’s article that mentioned me. I actually liked it and was just trying to clarify a few points. Please don’t get angry about it on my behalf. So as to not make things worse, I’ll banish further discussion of this to a comment (https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-423/comment/221769885).