YVR ACX SPRING MeetUP!

​This is the Vancouver ACX SPRING 2026 Meetup!

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ACX stands for astralcodexten, a blog by Scott Alexander.

​https://www.astralcodexten.com

​Who can attend?

​Everyone is welcome - you don't have to be a ACX reader to attend the meetup.

​And on that note, if you are new to ACX/rationalism, then I'll let Scott explain what his writing is all about.

​Astral Codex Ten is a blog about ṛta.

​Ṛta is a Sanskrit word, so ancient that it brushes up against the origin of Indo-European languages. It's related to English "rationality" and "arithmetic", but also "art" and "harmony". And "right", both in the senses of "natural rights" and "the right answer". And "order". And "arete" and "aristos" and all those other Greek words about morality. And "artificial", as in eg artificial intelligence. More speculatively "reign" and related words about rulership, and "rich" and related words about money.

​(also "arthropod", but insects creep me out so I'll be skipping this one)

​The dictionary defines ṛta as "truth", but I think of it as the intersection of all these concepts, a sort of hidden node at the center of art and harmony and rationality and the rest. What are the laws of thought? How do they reveal themselves, at every level, from the flow of electricity through the brain to the flow of money through the global economy? How can we cleave to them more closely, for our own good and the good of generations still to come?

​In practice, articles (another ṛta relative!) here tend to focus on reasoning, science, psychiatry, medicine, ethics, genetics, AI, economics and politics.