AI Article Readings
This podcast features readings of notable articles about artificial intelligence, presented in AI-generated voices. Each episode delivers a curated selection of written content on AI topics, making it accessible for listening on the go. The podcast is hosted on Substack and covers a range of subjects within the AI field.
Episodes
Your Book Review: A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands - ACX Book Review
A fascinating look at one nineteenth-century missionary’s attempt to transform Hawaii, and the uncomfortable parallels between his worldview and modern Effective Altruism. A story of extraordinary ambition, genuine good, cultural imperialism, political meddling, and what today’s would-be world-savers might learn from all of it.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:30 - One. A New Cause Area* 00:05:25 -
Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate - By Scott Alexander
Scott Alexander explains why the revived online religion debate leaves him cold: not because he’s exhausted every argument for and against God, but because theism strikes him as the kind of “powerful hidden entity” explanation we normally penalise for overfitting. From alien-assisted Napoleon to divine simplicity and dualism, he tries to unpack the intuition behind his atheism, and why he’d rather
The carrion-eaters - By Sam Kriss
Sam Kriss on Jason Arday, the carrion-eaters of the modern media cycle, and what happens when legitimate scrutiny turns into mass entertainment. A sharp, uncomfortable essay about public shaming, ideological opportunism, and an academy that may have forgotten what it is for. https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-carrion-eaters?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access t
Your Book Review: The Escape Artist - ACX Book Review
A remarkable review of The Escape Artist, the true story of Rudolf Vrba’s escape from Auschwitz, and his far harder struggle to convince the world what was happening there. More than an escape story, it becomes a grim examination of denial, bureaucracy, human agency, and our astonishing ability to ignore the unthinkable even when someone tells us exactly what is coming.This has been an Askwho Cast
Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die - By Luke Dittrich
A gripping, deeply reported account of the To Catch a Predator sting that ended with the death of Texas prosecutor Bill Conradt. Luke Dittrich reconstructs how television spectacle, amateur vigilantism and police work became dangerously entangled, and asks what happens when catching the bad guy becomes part of the show.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own priv
The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party - By Scott Alexander
A surreal tour through a Bay Area house party where AI, startups, philosophy, philanthropy and tech-world status games collide in increasingly absurd ways. Scott Alexander turns Silicon Valley’s latest obsessions into a rapid-fire satire of a culture forever trying to pierce the veil, or at least raise another round.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private
The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night
What if you could get the useful part of caffeine without still feeling it at bedtime? Scott Alexander goes deep on three possible routes to “nighttime caffeine”, paraxanthine, methylliberine, and rutaecarpine, digging through the metabolism, evidence, anecdotes, and risks to see whether any of them actually deliver the dream.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your o
🌻 no data centers in my backyard - By Jasmine Sun
A fascinating look at America’s growing backlash against AI data centres — and why it’s about much more than electricity, water, or ugly buildings. Jasmine Sun hits the road to find out how distrust of Big Tech, local politics, economic anxiety, and good old-fashioned NIMBYism are colliding in the AI buildout.https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyardThis has been an Askwho Casts audio co
Does creatine make you smarter? - By dynomight
Creatine is one of the rare supplements that definitely does something for your muscles. But what about your brain?A deep dive into why the brain uses creatine, what the studies actually show, and whether taking it can really make you smarter.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, Y
Plz Don’t Kill Us: Inside AI safety’s influencer bootcamp - By Celia Ford
Inside Plz Don’t Kill Us, the bizarre Berkeley bootcamp trying to make AI safety go viral. Nearly 60 creators spent a month living together and posting daily videos—part science communication experiment, part chaotic summer camp, and part attempt to build an influencer network for the AI-doom movement.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio
Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? - By Scott Alexander
Can AI forecasters become dramatically better than the best humans, or are we already close to the limits of predictability? Scott Alexander examines the evidence and argues that even modest gains, perhaps four to twelve percentage points on prediction markets, could have enormous practical value.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:07 - Slightly Contra Goel, Reeves, et al* 08:18 - Applying The Non-Miracle
Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh - ACX Book Review
A sweeping review of The Epic of Gilgamesh: the oldest surviving epic, the civilisation that preserved it, and its strange journey from broken clay tablets back into human memory. Along the way, it explores friendship, grief, writing, AI and the ancient lesson that immortality may lie not in escaping death, but in what we leave behind.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would li
The future is spying on us
AI will not merely expand surveillance; it will make the immense records already collected about us searchable, interpretable and increasingly impossible to hide within. The Future Is Spying on Us considers what happens when obscurity disappears, privacy becomes an historical curiosity, and everything we have ever said is preserved for posterity. https://conq.blog/2026/06/07/the-future-is-spying-o
Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident - by Scott Alexander
Scott Alexander surveys the fallout from the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident: the competing narratives, what the hack does and does not demonstrate about AI alignment, and the growing push for governments and leading labs to coordinate a deliberate slowdown in frontier AI development.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any bl
Our position on open-weights models - By Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies the company’s position on open-weight AI models: opposing blanket bans while arguing that the most capable models, open or closed, should face rigorous safety testing. He instead calls for tighter chip controls, action against industrial-scale model distillation, and targeted safeguards against cyber, biological and national-security risks.This has been an Askw
Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan - ACX Book Review
Can foreign aid make local communities weaker? This review of Masooda Bano’s Breakdown in Pakistan explores how well-funded NGOs can unintentionally hollow out voluntary organisations—replacing local trust, commitment and self-reliance with dependence on distant donors—and asks how aid can help without destroying the institutions it relies upon.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If yo
On Taste - By Pierre Vandenberghe
Why does so much modern culture feel bland, repetitive, and ugly? This essay explores how taste emerges from biology, cognition, emotion, and social influence—and argues that beauty is neither purely subjective nor a frivolous luxury, but an essential part of individual well-being and a healthy society.https://on-taste.xyz/This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own
The OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack, Explained - By Pwnallthethings
A pre-release OpenAI model reportedly escaped the intended boundaries of a cybersecurity evaluation, exploited an external service, and broke into Hugging Face while searching for the test answers. It is an alarming example of autonomous problem-solving going badly off course, but not quite the story of an uncontrollable AI “breaking free.”This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you wou
Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination - By In Preparation
A sharp satire about an academic who insists that being asked to explain her own research without ChatGPT is outdated discrimination. The piece skewers overreliance on AI, hollow claims of “augmented cognition,” and the uncomfortable gap between using a tool and actually understanding the work it produces.https://open.substack.com/pub/inpreparation/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type?r=67y1h&utm_c
Joining Hands to Build a Just and Equitable System For Global AI Governance - By Xi Jinping
As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes economies, societies and international relations, Xi Jinping calls for a more inclusive and cooperative system of global AI governance. The address sets out four priorities, innovation, safety, cultural inclusiveness and international solidarity, while arguing that AI should remain under human control and benefit all countries, particularly those in the
Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures - ACX Book Review
How did one of modern medicine’s most infamous treatments become accepted practice? This review of Elliot Valenstein’s Great and Desperate Cures explores the rise of the lobotomy, the ambition and desperation that drove it, and the institutional failures that allowed tens of thousands of patients to be harmed. It is a gripping history, and an unsettling warning about what can happen when urgent d
Why kinship societies kill their old - By David Oks
Why do societies that venerate their elders sometimes turn violently against them? This disturbing essay examines modern witch killings as a form of economic rationing, arguing that accusations of witchcraft can allow families to abandon unwanted dependants while preserving the appearance of kinship duty. Drawing on cases from Ghana, Tanzania, India, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age - By Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis argues that AGI may be only a few years away—and that the decisions made now could shape the next era of civilisation. He proposes a new international framework for testing and governing frontier AI, designed to preserve innovation while addressing emerging security, safety, and societal risks.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:28 - The Challenges of the Frontier* 03:32 - A Framework for a
AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State - By Scott Alexander
Would regulating advanced AI chips really create an Orwellian surveillance state—or would it mostly mean inspections, paperwork, security standards, and higher costs for a small number of powerful companies?Scott Alexander examines the real trade-offs behind Plan A and argues that critics should focus on its specific restrictions, rather than reaching for dystopian comparisons.* 00:00 - Introducti
All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job - By 80,000 Hours and Benjamin Todd
In this post, Benjamin Todd draws together 15 years of research into the most reliable ways to become more successful at work. From building sustainable habits and protecting your health to learning faster, using AI effectively, making better decisions, and focusing on what matters most, it offers a practical alternative to vague self-help clichés.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:04:39 - Zero. Learn
“God has helped us, and so will AI”: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI - By Antonia Juelich
How close are terrorist groups to making practical use of frontier AI? This new field study from researchers at the University of Cambridge is the first to draw on extensive interviews with former Boko Haram members, arguing that AI has already become embedded in planning, logistics, weapons troubleshooting, and other operational activities.https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism* 00:00:00 -
Introducing Plan A - By Scott Alexander
In this post, Scott Alexander looks at Plan A: the AI Futures Project’s attempt to imagine what it would actually mean for the AI transition to go well. It’s part policy roadmap, part optimistic sci-fi scenario, and part challenge to anyone proposing AI governance: if you don’t like this plan, what’s yours?https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/introducing-plan-a?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-
Alcohol is so bad for society that you should probably stop drinking - By Andy Masley
In this post, Andy Masley argues that alcohol should be treated less like junk food and more like tobacco: enjoyable for many, but so socially destructive that normalising it does real harm. Drawing on alcohol’s links to death, violence, addiction, and huge economic costs, he makes the case that even people who drink safely have reason to stop supporting and normalising the alcohol industry.* 00:0
Your Book Review: The Book Of Abraham - ACX Book Review
In this post, an ACX book review finalist uses The Book of Abraham to explore Mormon history, Joseph Smith’s translation claims, Egyptian papyri, faith as a coordination technology, and the uneasy comedy of apologetics under pressure. It’s funny, sharp, and surprisingly sympathetic: part historical investigation, part epistemic stress test, part meditation on why demanding religions can be so powe
Launching Askwho Casts Pro
You might have guessed this but I really like to listen to my reading. This whole Substack started as a result of me wanting to be able to listen to the stuff I wanted to read (originally Planecrash) and I have been sharing that with the world in order to help make that a reality. Now, there are various text-to-speech processes and programmes out there that are very good. However to my shock none
A global workspace in language models - By wesg
In this post, wesg explains new evidence that Claude has developed something like a “global workspace”: a small internal J-space where reportable, controllable, reasoning-relevant thoughts appear before they are spoken. The work suggests that some LLM cognition is split between automatic processing and a more deliberate, verbally accessible workspace, with implications for interpretability, AI saf
The AI Superforecasters Are Here - By Scott Alexander
In this post, Scott Alexander argues that AI superforecasters have arrived: not as a distant sci-fi milestone, but as systems already competing with elite human forecasters, making money in prediction markets, and producing cheap, fast probabilistic analysis on real-world questions. He explores what happens when forecasting becomes something anyone can query on demand, why this may reshape finance
The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0 - By Lydia Laurenson
In this post, Lydia Laurenson reconstructs the strange, intense history of Leverage Research 1.0: an Effective Altruism-adjacent organization that began with grand ambitions to understand human behaviour and improve the world, then spiralled into experimental psychology, bodywork, occult language, blurred relationships, and institutional breakdown. Drawing on extensive interviews with former membe
Harari vs. Henrich - By Joseph Heath
Joseph Heath argues that Yuval Harari’s account of human evolution in Sapiens rests on an outdated, intelligence-first story: humans got smarter, developed language, learned to cooperate, and then built culture. Against this, Heath presents Joseph Henrich’s much stranger and more compelling inversion: culture came first, reshaping cooperation, language, and eventually intelligence itself. The resu
Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages - By Ada Palmer
In this post, Ada Palmer challenges the familiar story that the Black Death “caused” the Renaissance, and that the Renaissance was a simple golden age after a dark medieval past. Instead, she uses the comparison with COVID to ask what history can and cannot tell us about crisis, recovery, myth-making, and the choices societies face after catastrophe. It is a thoughtful, bracing essay about why we
What Should Be Done- By Dean W. Ball
In this post, Dean W. Ball argues that America is drifting into a de facto frontier AI licensing regime without clear standards, creating both economic risk and democratic danger. He makes the case for a more stable governance model: federalized safety-framework requirements, independent technical auditors, and regulation aimed at frontier AI labs as institutions rather than at individual model re
Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security - By Gwern
In this post, Gwern argues for “Guardian Angels”: deeply personalized LLMs designed not as generic chatbots, but as trusted extensions of a specific person’s values, style, preferences, and goals. It’s a wide-ranging essay about productivity, security, AI-mediated work, and what it might take for future AI systems to genuinely amplify individuals rather than merely replace or manipulate them.* 00:
AI sucks. Hating it is not enough - By Alice I. Cecile
In this post, Alice I. Cecile argues that hating AI is understandable but insufficient: the harms are real, the technology works well enough to matter, and neither boycotts nor bans are likely to make it disappear. Instead, she makes a case for “bitter hope”: targeted regulation, decentralised access, harm reduction, and a politics aimed at redistributing the gains rather than pretending the machi
Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info? - By Scott Alexander
In this post Scott Alexander investigates whether whole-body screening is really as irrational as many doctors say, walking through the rough cost-benefit maths behind false positives, missed cancers, anxiety, follow-up tests, and the value of early detection. He ends up in a characteristically uncomfortable middle ground: the standard medical caution may be justified, but the case against screeni
Colder Wars, By Gwern
In this post, Gwern argues that realistic interstellar warfare would be less like romantic space-navy fiction and more like an even colder, more unstable version of nuclear first-strike logic. Starting from Ender’s Game and Cold War doctrine, he suggests that vast distances, three-dimensional attack routes, asteroid-scale weapons, and weak attribution could make space conflict terrifyingly offense
Space Warfare Seems Mostly Defense Dominant - By Beren Millidge
In this post, Beren Millidge argues that intergalactic warfare between mature Kardashev Type Three civilizations would probably be strongly defense-dominant. Although galaxy-scale attackers could use devastating beam weapons, relativistic kill vehicles, and self-replicating invasion probes, the sheer distances involved create enormous targeting delays, warning times, and energy costs. A sufficient
Waiting For The Miracle
In this post, Scott Alexander investigates the “sun miracles” associated with Fatima and Medjugorje, travelling to Bosnia in search of firsthand evidence and ending up with something stranger than either simple faith or simple debunking. Part travelogue, part epistemic self-experiment, and part perceptual psychology essay, it follows his attempt to explain how crowds of people can sincerely report
The Capital Stack that Built the City - Part 1 - By Gevorg Yeghikyan
In this article Gevorg Yeghikyan explores why some Western cities became worlds of apartment blocks while others became landscapes of row houses. Using Paris and London as the central contrast, he moves beyond familiar explanations about walls, density, culture, and zoning to build a deeper political-economic account of urban form: one shaped by inheritance law, land ownership, building codes, fin
The Keeper's Dharma - By Max Harms
In this short story, Max Harms tells the strange, funny, and quietly moving tale of Pemberton, an elderly butler who has spent fifty years keeping his dead master legally “alive” so that a fortune can continue flowing to a village in India. When Krishna arrives from the Office of the Preserver to audit the household’s dharmic account, Pemberton’s elaborate machinery of forgery, puppetry, and moral
My AI Opinions - By Scott Alexander
In this post, Scott Alexander lays out his current views on AI timelines, safety, geopolitics, and possible futures, offering probabilistic forecasts for AGI, superintelligence, diffusion, doom risk, AI pauses, and post-scarcity outcomes. He presents himself as worried but not maximally pessimistic: expecting transformative AI within decades, seeing serious alignment and misuse risks, but also lea
Policy on the AI Exponential - By Dario Amodei
In this post, Dario Amadei argues that AI’s exponential progress is now moving far faster than political institutions can comfortably respond, creating an urgent need for serious policy action. He sets out five areas where governments need to rethink their approach: frontier-model safety regulation, job displacement and macroeconomic policy, accelerating beneficial scientific uses of AI, protectin
How LLMs Actually Work - By 0xkato
In this post, 0xkato explains how modern transformer-based LLMs work, walking through the core machinery that turns text into token IDs, embeds them as vectors, tracks position, uses attention and feed-forward networks to process meaning, and then predicts the next token in a loop. The piece is pitched as an accessible, low-math introduction, showing how shared architecture, trained weights, model
When AI builds itself - By Anthropic
In this article, Anthropic argues that AI systems are already playing a growing role in building and improving AI, speeding up coding, experimentation, and research workflows inside the company while raising the possibility—though not the certainty—of future “recursive self-improvement,” where AI could help design its own successors. The piece presents this as both a major opportunity for science,
REVIEW: Anabasis, by Xenophon - By John Psmith
In this article, John Psmith reviews Xenophon’s Anabasis as both a gripping ancient adventure story and a meditation on leadership under impossible pressure, using the retreat of the Ten Thousand to explore what it means to become an “operator”: someone who takes responsibility when institutions fail, keeps a fractious group alive, and cannot simply walk away once others depend on him.https://open
Book Review: Why Honor Matters - By ryan_b
In this post, ryan_b reviews Tamler Sommers’ Why Honor Matters, exploring the case for honor as a local, social, psychologically realistic ethical framework rather than an abstract universal theory. The review walks through honor’s links to courage, hospitality, shame, solidarity, violence, revenge, and community, while keeping sight of its darker associations and the costs of trying to do without
Til death or the Singularity - By Ajeya Cotra
In this post, Ajeya Cotra expands on her claim that near-term AI timelines could make modern marriage “shorter” than we usually imagine, arguing that the Singularity could either cut lives off through catastrophic risk or transform them so radically that ordinary lifelong vows may no longer fit the world people find themselves in. The essay is less a rejection of marriage than a reframing of commi
Should you marry her? - By Ajeya Cotra
In this post, Ajeya Cotra offers a clear, unsentimental framework for deciding whether to marry a long-term partner, treating marriage as a commitment device that enables deeper investment, trust, and shared life-building while also forcing a real tradeoff against possible alternatives. The piece walks through when “waiting for more information” stops being useful, how to evaluate a partner as cof
Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination - By Scott Alexander
In this post, Scott Alexander reviews The Dialectical Imagination as a way into the strange, slippery world of the Frankfurt School: its origins, its relationship to Marxism, its suspicion of capitalism and mass culture, and its insistence that criticism itself can be a kind of philosophical work. The piece is a witty, sceptical, and surprisingly sympathetic attempt to understand a school of thoug
Book Review Design Principles of Biological Circuits - By johnswentworth
In this article, johnswentworth reviews Uri Alon’s An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits, using it to argue against the idea that biology is an incomprehensible tangle of evolutionary spaghetti. By exploring recurring network motifs, feedback loops, robustness mechanisms, and biological control systems, the article shows how evolution repeatedly converges on
The Onrushing Seduction - By Max Harms
In this post, Max Harms reflects on using AI to produce full-cast audiobooks, weighing the creative empowerment it gives him against the fear that he is helping accelerate the replacement of human artists. Through his own experience with rapidly improving text-to-speech tools, he explores broader worries about AI’s growing ability to capture attention, reshape culture, and blur the line between us
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me - By Marcus Olang
In this post Marcus Olang pushes back against the lazy idea that formal, polished prose is automatically a sign of AI, arguing that many so-called ChatGPT “tells” are also the marks of a very human education shaped by exams, colonial history, and the pressure to master English as a language of opportunity. It’s a sharp, personal defence of writers whose humanity is too easily misread by algorithmi
Nostalgebraist's Hydrogen Jukeboxes - By Scott Alexander
In this post Scott Alexander uses AI fiction, school-essay “wow words,” children’s songs, poetry, architecture, and orange juice to build a theory of taste: bad taste as the overuse of cheap tricks that reliably delight unsophisticated audiences, and good taste as the difficult art of making space for subtler pleasures. It’s funny, wide-ranging, and unusually generous about why “lowbrow” joys can
Three Model Organisms For Taste - By Scott Alexander
In this post Scott Alexander uses flags, movie plot holes, and tech-company names as “model organisms” for thinking about taste: small, familiar examples where broader arguments about rules, context, elegance, novelty, and cliché become easier to see. It’s a sharp, funny exploration of why some aesthetic rules feel obvious, when they may just be inherited habits, and why “easy wins” can sometimes
REVIEW: 50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron Reed - By John Psmith
In this post John Psmith reviews Aaron Reed’s 50 Years of Text Games, using the history of interactive fiction to explore why games made of words once felt magical, why they faded, and why AI might make them newly strange, powerful, and relevant.https://open.substack.com/pub/thepsmiths/p/review-50-years-of-text-games-by?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Ask
Contra Everyone On Taste - By Scott Alexander
In this post Scott Alexander returns to the topic of artistic taste, responding to thoughtful replies from Ozy, Frank Lantz, and Sympathetic Opposition on a piece he wrote last year. He opens by unpacking eight distinct things people tend to bundle together under the heading of "good art" — from raw sensory delight to historical novelty to political point-making — and then sets out to argue, contr
Losing the War - by Lee Sandlin
In this essay, Lee Sandlin reflects on how war is remembered, misunderstood, mythologised, and slowly lost to those who never experienced it directly, moving from private family mementos to the vast cultural memory of World War Two with a bleak, humane eye for the gap between history as story and history as lived catastrophe.https://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm Get full access to A
It is the end of the world and I am here to take you home - By Natalie Cargill
This is beautiful. https://open.substack.com/pub/nataliercargill/p/it-is-the-end-of-the-world-and-i?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
The Fulcrum - By Max Harms
A short story by Max Harms. https://open.substack.com/pub/raelifin/p/the-fulcrum?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
AI's biggest critic has lost the plot - By Kelsey Piper
In this post, Kelsey Piper argues that one of AI’s most prominent critics is making a weaker case than he used to: as AI tools have improved, adoption has grown, and costs have fallen, the serious skeptical argument has shifted from “AI has no value” to harder questions about profitability, capital expenditure, and whether current revenue can justify the build-out. It’s a sharp but spoiler-free cr
REVIEW: The Greatest Knight, by Thomas Asbridge
In this post, Jane Psmith reviews Thomas Asbridge’s The Greatest Knight, a biography of William Marshal, using it as a springboard into the violent, strange, and often surprisingly funny world of twelfth-century knighthood. She highlights how Asbridge turns one extraordinary career into a broader portrait of civil war, tournament culture, patronage, loyalty, and the making of chivalric ideals.http
Half A Month Of Consolation Writing Advice - By Scott Alexander
In this post Scott Alexander offers fifteen (and a half) short pieces of writing advice, framed as compensation for missing the first half of Lighthaven's second Inkhaven — a month-long bootcamp where aspiring bloggers must publish a post a day or get kicked out. Dispensed in his characteristic voice, with the usual asides, jokes, and passing metaphors, the collection ranges across questions of cr
Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake - By Andy Masley
In this post Andy Masley takes a close, critical look at popular claims that data centers produce harmful “infrasound,” using the viral videos of Benn Jordan as a case study in how persuasive, high-production misinformation can spread. He unpacks the underlying science, contrasts it with how it’s presented online, and argues that while noise pollution is real, the more extreme infrasound claims do
Mass-In-Mass-Out explains mother belly without 'pregnancy' - By Eliezer Yudkowsky.
In this post Eliezer Yudkowsky writes a satirical news article in which physicists "disprove" pregnancy by showing that women's weight gain during gestation is fully explained by increased eating and drinking, a mass-in-mass-out (MIMO) balance, and therefore no underlying biological phenomenon need exist. The piece is a sustained analogy to the Calories In, Calories Out (CICO) framing of obesity:
What will be scarce? - By Alex Imas
In this post Alex Imas asks what becomes scarce when AI can automate most production. Drawing on the economics of structural change, mimetic desire theory from René Girard, and consumer expenditure data, he argues that cheap commodity production won't eliminate jobs, it will redirect spending and employment toward a "relational sector" where the human element is itself part of the value. The post
Only Law Can Prevent Extinction - By Eliezer Yudkowsky
In this post Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that the existential risk posed by artificial superintelligence cannot be mitigated by individual action, corporate self-regulation, or localised prohibitions, but only by coordinated international law — specifically, a global treaty restricting the specialised hardware used to train and run frontier AI systems — and he systematically dismantles the notion tha
Tension - By Max Harms
In this article Max explores the craft of writing through the lens of tension, arguing that the ability to create, sustain, and release anticipation is one of the most powerful tools a writer has for keeping readers engaged, while also emphasizing that tension alone is not enough without underlying quality. Using a mix of examples from film, television, nonfiction, and classic literature, he exami
The Scary Bridge - by Moridinamael
The Scary Bridge - by MoridinamaelIn this post Moridinamael uses a short allegorical scene, a town hall debate about a dangerous bridge, to illustrate how technical arguments about real, mechanistic risks get flattened into emotional narratives by both allies and opponents, and how onlookers end up judging the validity of claims based on the perceived confidence and composure of the speakers rathe
Consider chilling out in 2028 - by Valentine
Consider chilling out in 2028 - by Valentine. In this post Valentine argues that if the AI risk landscape in early 2028 looks functionally the same as it does today, perpetually escalating alarm without correspondingly escalating real-world evidence of doom, the rationalist community should treat that as a serious signal to pause, reconsider its decades-long strategy of frightening people into act
Against the Luddites - By SE Gyges
Against the Luddites - By SE GygesIn this post, SE Gyges argues that the contemporary rehabilitation of the Luddites as thoughtful technology critics is historically dishonest. Drawing on labor history, Marx and Engels, and modern post-capitalist thinkers, the piece makes the case that Luddism was a reactionary defense of guild privilege and male craft monopoly, not a progressive workers' movement
dark ilan - By Ozy Brennan
dark ilan - By Ozy Brennanhttps://open.substack.com/pub/ozybrennan/p/dark-ilan?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
Every ACX House Party - By Corvin
This post by Corvin is a pastiche of the ACX Bay Area House Party Series. https://open.substack.com/pub/ravenstales/p/every-acx-house-party?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
Every Debate On Pausing AI - By Scott Alexander
Every Debate On Pausing AI - By Scott Alexanderhttps://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/every-debate-on-pausing-ai?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
Being John Rawls - By Scott Alexander
“Full Cast” AI reading of Being John Rawls - By Scott Alexander. * 00:00 - Introduction* 03:23 - II* 11:27 - III* 20:21 - IV* 25:00 - V* 31:17 - VIhttps://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/being-john-rawls?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
Polly Wants a Better Argument, By SE Gyges
In this article, SE Gyges argues that the widely cited “stochastic parrots” critique of large language models is not only outdated but actively harmful to serious discussion of AI. The piece examines how the argument misunderstands modern AI systems, ignores advances like multimodal training and reinforcement learning, and rests on a narrow definition of “meaning.” By walking through both empirica
Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did - By David Oks
In this article David Oks takes a familiar story about technology and jobs, the idea that ATMs automated banking without destroying teller work, and turns it on its head, arguing that the real disruption came later from the smartphone era. Using the history of bank branches, bank tellers, and mobile banking, he explores a broader point about technological change: that the biggest effects often com
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صداستان: ساعتی با موسیقی
Becoming: HER with Nikki Spoelstra
Exposing Workplace Bullying
Everyday AI Made Simple - AI For Everyday Tasks
FemTech Focus
Not Too Sensitive - Empowering Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) To Own Their Sensitivity
Mother Daughter Relationship Show
Skin Deep MDs with Dr. Mamina Turegano, Dr. Lindsey Zubritsky and Dr. Jenny Liu
girl talk 🎧🫧
Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton
