Astral Codex Ten

Aaron Silverbook

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Aaron Silverbook

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Aaron Silverbook is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 07, 2023 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “I talked to Lantern founder Aaron Silverbook to get an idea of how this works”; “Aaron Silverbook, $5K , for approximately five thousand novels about AI going well”. It most often appears alongside FDA, 2023, Aaron.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: December 07, 2023
  • Last seen: October 13, 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.

Defying Cavity: Lantern Bioworks FAQ
December 07, 2023 · Original source
I talked to Lantern founder Aaron Silverbook to get an idea of how this works, both in a biological and an economic sense. Aaron was very knowledgeable and forthcoming, although he uses the phrase “YOLO” somewhat more often than most biotech founders. This post isn’t a verbatim interview transcript, just a writeup of what I learned based on his answers.
ACX Grants Results 2025
October 13, 2025 · Original source
Aaron Silverbook, $5K, for approximately five thousand novels about AI going well. This one requires some background: critics claim that since AI absorbs text as training data and then predicts its completion, talking about dangerous AI too much might “hyperstition” it into existence. Along with the rest of the AI Futures Project, I wrote a skeptical blog post, which ended by asking - if this were true, it would be great, right? You could just write a few thousand books about AI behaving well, and alignment would be solved! At the time, I thought I was joking. Enter Aaron, who you may remember from his previous adventures in mad dental science. He and a cofounder have been working on an “AI fiction publishing house” that considers itself state-of-the-art in producing slightly-less-sloplike AI slop than usual. They offered to literally produce several thousand book-length stories about AI behaving well and ushering in utopia, on the off chance that this helps. Our grant will pay for compute. We’re still working on how to get this included in training corpuses. He would appreciate any plot ideas you could give him to use as prompts.
Inline links: a skeptical blog post, mad dental science, would appreciate