Chris Best

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Chris Best is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 31, 2025 and March 03, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Is this Chris Best’s secret plan for Substack?”; “CEO Chris Best reports that Substack is partnering with Polymarket”. It most often appears alongside Google, Matt Yglesias, Substack.

Metadata

• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: December 31, 2025
• Last seen: March 03, 2026

Appears In

• Highlights From The Comments On Vibecession
• Mantic Monday: Groundhog Day

Related Pages

• • Google (2 shared issues)
• • Matt Yglesias (2 shared issues)
• • Substack (2 shared issues)
• • Trump (2 shared issues)
• • US (2 shared issues)
• • 1955 (1 shared issues)
• • 2024 US election (1 shared issues)
• • 2026 elections (1 shared issues)
• • 4chan (1 shared issues)
• • AARP (1 shared issues)
• • Aella (1 shared issues)
• • Agent Economy Of The Future (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://beverlypress.com/2024/05/uptick-in-graffiti-paints-a-bleak-picture/
• • https://biblehub.com/greek/3646.htm
• • https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_language
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-the-2024-US-presidential-election
• • https://x.com/AppSpartacus

Source Context

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.

Highlights From The Comments On Vibecession

December 31, 2025 · Original source

This was a formative experience for many people in Silicon Valley: there was a sudden turn from the early 2000s world where everyone loved technology and thought that the information superhighway was the utopian world of the cyber-future, to the late 2000s world where everyone hated techno-fascist tech-bro techno-oligarchs using The Algorithm to addict our children. Although there was some shift in the underlying terrain, the sheer speed of the change in opinion made a lot of people point to journalists realizing that tech was bad for their business and making an united decision to cover it negatively. Could the same thing happen to an entire economy? Should we subsidize journalists, on the theory that if they’re in a good mood, everyone else will be in a good mood too? Is this Chris Best’s secret plan for Substack?

Mantic Monday: Groundhog Day

March 03, 2026 · Original source

1: CEO Chris Best reports that Substack is partnering with Polymarket to make it easier to embed prediction markets in Substack posts and notes. I haven’t been using the embeds here because they don’t let you see the history graph, but I’m excited about them in general. And his post also mentions that “one in five of Substack’s top 250 highest-revenue publications [has] started using [prediction markets]”, which surprises me but seems like a great sign.

Inline links: reports

Backlinks

• Highlights From The Comments On Vibecession
• Mantic Monday: Groundhog Day
• People: C