Astral Codex Ten

ACX Grant

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ACX Grant

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ACX Grant is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between December 27, 2021 and June 18, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “they have applied for (and will probably get) an ACX Grant”; “If you received an ACX Grant”; “he also won an ACX Grant to further investigate”. It most often appears alongside ACX, California, Google.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: December 27, 2021
  • Last seen: June 18, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Mantic Monday: Dogs In Wizard Hats
December 27, 2021 · Original source
Conflict of interest notice: they have applied for (and will probably get) an ACX Grant. Other than me giving them money and publicity, and them stealing my favorite prediction market related word, I’m not actually affiliated with them in a meaningful sense.
Open Thread 206
January 10, 2022 · Original source
1: If you received an ACX Grant, you should either have already been approached by me about how to get paid, or else you’ll be approached soon by a representative of CEA about this. If you haven’t heard from either of us by 1/20, something has gone wrong and you should email me at scott@slatestarcodex.com.
Open Thread 243
September 26, 2022 · Original source
1: Many of you enjoyed Lars Doucet’s book review on Georgism and subsequent followup posts; he also won an ACX Grant to further investigate. Now he’s turning his Georgist work into a book, Land Is A Big Deal, due out October 15:
Inline links: book review on Georgism, subsequent, followup, posts, ACX Grant, Land Is A Big Deal
ACX Grants 1-3 Year Updates
June 18, 2025 · Original source
The first cohort of ACX Grants was announced in late 2021, the second in early 2024. In 2022, I posted one-year updates for the first cohort. Now, as I start thinking about a third round, I’ve collected one-year updates on the second and three-year updates on the first.
Inline links: late 2021, early 2024, one-year updates
ACX Grants (almost) always approves of pivoting to AI safety research, but I still wonder what might have been with the original project. Michael says that “The types of software projects in clinical trials that we were initially intending to do seem on track to fall to AI by 2030. We DID succeed at deriving new math techniques, and AI does not yet have a clear path to solving that kind of creative research-level math.”
Crowdfight is a platform to facilitate scientific collaborations, especially high-value collaborations that would not emerge naturally. We aim to transform the way scientists see collaboration, from the current mutually beneficial view where both collaborators must be interested in the project to a more altruistic one, where one scientists helps in the project of another scientist. These collaborations are relatively to establish and very productive, typically costing very little to the scientist who helps, and adding a lot of value to the project. We operate by receiving requests from scientists who look for help in their project, and finding suitable matches with the adequate expertise. The ACX grant covers our operating costs, allowing us to offer this service for free to the scientific community.
Inline links: Crowdfight