UFOs
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UFOs is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 11, 2022 and May 30, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Pew on who believes in UFOs”; “Metaculus considers UFOs”; “asking when we should trust the media on UFOs UAPs”. It most often appears alongside Aella, Bigfoot, 3Blue1Brown.
Metadata
- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 11, 2022
- Last seen: May 30, 2025
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Related Pages
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- Aella (2 shared issues)
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- Bigfoot (2 shared issues)
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- 3Blue1Brown (1 shared issues)
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- ACX MEETUP (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Binks (1 shared issues)
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- Alasdair MacIntyre (1 shared issues)
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- ancient aliens (1 shared issues)
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- Andrew Robinson (1 shared issues)
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- anomalous meteorites (1 shared issues)
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- Apollonian (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotle Inc (1 shared issues)
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- atheists (1 shared issues)
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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.
Here’s Pew on who believes in UFOs:
Inline links: who believes in UFOs
Another possible explanation is that people with coherent worldviews already have strong opinions on what’s true, making them closed-minded against conspiracy theories. For example, if God created humans in the Garden of Eden, that doesn’t leave a lot of room for aliens and UFOs. Or, since atheists believe everything works through purely physical scientifically-measurable forces, that doesn’t leave a lot of room for astrology.
Metaculus considers UFOs:
This covers literal UFOs, SETI, and Avi Loeb’s work trying to recover anomalous meteorites, plus any other way aliens might make themselves known to us in the next 27 years.
Inline links: Avi Loeb’s work trying to recover anomalous meteorites
A lot of the kids who I work with (not a representative sample: they skew toward the gifted and hyperactive sides of the spectrums) are fascinated by cryptids, UFOs, and psychic phenomena. So for them, I’ve been crafting courses that teach Bayes as a way to get clear on that stuff.
Taking this seriously is how I came up with a set of online summer camps. The weeklong course last year used Bigfoot to get kids to experience using Bayes theorem. The one from this summer will deepen that by looking at claims of sea monsters. Year 3’s will extend this, asking when we should trust the media on UFOs UAPs. Year 4’s will hold a bright light up to academic, peer-reviewed sources by looking closely into the evidence for psychic powers, and year 5’s will try to suss out the edges of science itself by looking into the evidence for ghosts. Whatever else these summer camps accomplish, I hope they’ll prepare my students for whatever dubious assertions they run across on YouTube.
Inline links: a set of online summer camps