ClaimsScott Alexander

“The Boston ACX meetup group has finished their Greater Boston general election voting guide.”

Scott Alexander, ACX author 19 October 2026 Open Thread 456 (Astral Codex Ten) archived copy

Factual Their own work or organisation

The Boston ACX meetup group has finished its Greater Boston general election voting guide.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

True: by 2026-10-19 the Boston ACX meetup group had published a completed voting guide for the Greater Boston general election. Mostly true: the guide was published, but a minor detail differs (for example it was co-produced with another local group, or it covers Massachusetts more broadly). Mostly false: only a draft or partial guide existed by that date. False: no such guide had been produced by that group as of that date, or the guide belongs to an unrelated group.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (9)

  1. E1 My California Ballot, 2026 Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) · 28 October 2026 Own record

    “See also ACX meetup groups’ ballot guides to Atlanta, Austin, Boston, the North Carolina Research Triangle, and San Francisco.”

  2. E2 Ballots Everywhere: Times & Places Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) · 8 October 2026 Own record

    “(Sorry, we did this one early before it looked like there’d be wider meetups!)”

  3. E3 Boston Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten Meetup Google Groups (Boston Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten Meetup mailing list)

    “Hi all, Scott has once again invited local ACX meetup groups to produce voting guides for this”

  4. E4 Open Thread 446 Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) · 10 August 2026 Own record

    “The Boston meetup group will be having their annual voter-guide-making meeting this Sunday, August 16.”

  5. E5 My California Ballot, 2026 Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) · 28 October 2026 Own record

    “See also ACX meetup groups’ ballot guides to Atlanta, Austin, Boston, the North Carolina Research Triangle, and San Francisco.”

  6. E6 How to Run a Ballot Meetup — LessWrong LessWrong (post by Taymon Beal) · 16 September 2026

    “I ran the Astral Codex Ten ballot meetup in Boston that produced the 2026 primary voting guide.”

  7. E7 Open Thread 457 Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) · 26 October 2026 Own record

    “- Atlanta - Austin - NC Research Triangle - San Francisco”

  8. E8 Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander and Meetups Czar Skyler) · 25 September 2026 Own record

    “The guides get posted around October 24th”

  9. E9 Boston Astral Codex Ten Meetup | Meetup Meetup.com (Boston Astral Codex Ten group) · 9 October 2026 Own record

    “The meetup.com group is irregularly updated.”

Reasoning

Scott Alexander's own post of 2026-10-28 (E1/E5) lists a Boston ACX meetup ballot guide, but it does not show that this guide covers the general election or that it was finished by 2026-10-19. His Open Thread of 2026-10-26 (E7) lists other cities' guides and leaves Boston out. The only independent evidence of a finished guide (E6) is about the Boston group's 2026 primary guide, not the general election guide. The mailing-list snippet (E3) and the August meeting notice (E4) show the guide was being worked on, not that it was published, and no copy of the guide itself is in the evidence.

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Scott Alexander, “The Boston ACX meetup group has finished its Greater Boston general election voting guide.” (said 19 October 2026). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_d79b35603914, method 0.1.0+8bea457b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_d79b35603914

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