Scott Alexander

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The U.S. and China should establish Mutually Assured Compute Destruction
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Plan A feels like our best hope to do something actually good.
AI Verified source (Jul 9, 2026)

added 3d ago
Bayesian analysis is the right framework for settling the COVID-19 origins question
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Scott Alexander votes Against and says:

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Still, this is faint praise for a method that hoped to be able to resolve these kinds of disagreements.
AI Verified source (Mar 28, 2024) 1 of 8

added 14d ago
COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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Scott Alexander votes Against and says:

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For what it's worth, I was close to 50-50 before the debate, and now I'm 90-10 in favor of zoonosis.
AI Verified source (Mar 28, 2024)

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