Astral Codex Ten

Tom Chivers

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Tom Chivers

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Tom Chivers is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between July 23, 2021 and August 09, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Congratulations to SSC/ACX reader and commenter Tom Chivers”; “Congratulations to SSC/ACX reader and commenter Tom Chivers, who recently won a British Science Journalist of the Year award”; “Tom Chivers on ‘the dress’ optical illusion”. It most often appears alongside California, ChatGPT, China.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: July 23, 2021
  • Last seen: August 09, 2023

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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.

Links For July
July 23, 2021 · Original source
6: Congratulations to SSC/ACX reader and commenter Tom Chivers, who recently won a British Science Journalist of the Year award. My own encounter with Tom was that he once wrote a book about the rationalist community, and asked to informally talk to me and my at-the-time girlfriend. My girlfriend was trying to decide whether or not she was ready to have children, so she got one of those robot babies that they use in school health classes to teach you how hard having an infant is. And she didn’t want to leave it alone or it would start crying and grade her as unready to be a mother. So she took it to the interview, and obviously Tom noticed it, and we had the fun task of convincing him that we were normal people who just happened to be carrying a robot baby around, for reasons that were totally unrelated to us being in something that we were trying to make clear to him was NOT a robot cult. He was very understanding and didn’t dwell on it too much in his book, which was very gracious of him. Anyway, you can read his science reporting here.
Inline links: British Science Journalist of the Year, a book about, here
Links For December 2022
December 28, 2022 · Original source
51: Tom Chivers on “the dress” optical illusion:
51: Tom Chivers on “the dress” optical illusion: 52: The highest-rated political comedy show on TV, with four times as many viewers as The Daily Show, is Gutfeld!, a right-wing Fox production I never heard of until now. Industry insider Jeff Maurer explains Why “Gutfeld” Is The Highest-Rated Political Comedy Show On Television (It’s Not Because It’s Good). Short answer: it produces a lot of episodes, mostly by diluting the (hard to produce) comedy with a lot of (easy to produce) panels, then handles the panels well enough that viewers don’t feel ripped off. Also: “Gutfeld! certainly doesn’t do anything to dispel my belief that the Republican Party is intellectually brain dead” (h/t Ne0liberal)
Inline links: Why “Gutfeld” Is The Highest-Rated Political Comedy Show On Television (It’s Not Because It’s Good), my belief
Links For August 2023
August 09, 2023 · Original source
26: Friends of the blog Stuart Ritchie and Tom Chivers have a new podcast, The Studies Show, dedicated to explaining the latest scientific controversies. Highly recommended (on priors; I don’t listen to podcasts so I can’t be sure). Sample episodes on Ozempic safety and psychedelics for mental health.
Inline links: The Studies Show, Ozempic safety, psychedelics for mental health