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
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
The Elect - By Tomás Bjartur
A short story by Tomás Bjarturhttps://open.substack.com/pub/tomasbjartur/p/the-elect?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
Clawed - By Dean W. Ball
In this post Dean W. Ball explores the gradual nature of life and death, drawing a poignant parallel between the passing of his father and the ongoing decline of the American republic. Using a recent policy skirmish between the AI firm Anthropic and the U.S. Department of War over the military deployment of the Claude AI system as a focal point, he examines the shifting dynamics of government powe
"All Lawful Use": Much More Than You Wanted To Know - By Scott Alexander
In this post, Scott Alexander examines the legal and contractual implications of the Department of War's "all lawful use" demand for AI systems, breaking down what US law actually permits regarding mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons, and why the phrase "lawful use" provides far less protection than most people assume.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:42 - Mass domestic surveillance: more t
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
In this essay, Citrini and Alap Shah construct a fictional macro memo written from the perspective of June 2028, using the format of financial retrospective analysis to explore a single underexamined scenario: what happens when AI adoption succeeds beyond all expectations, and that success becomes the source of catastrophic economic disruption. The piece traces how accelerating AI capability inter
The left is missing out on AI - By Dan Kagan-Kans
In this essay, Dan Kagan-Kans argues that the political left has largely refused to engage seriously with artificial intelligence, instead settling on a dismissive consensus that treats it as little more than "spicy autocomplete." Drawing on voices from left-wing publications, podcasts, academics, and politicians, he traces how this attitude took hold, examines the understandable reasons for skept
When "technically true" becomes "actually misleading" - By Kelsey Piper
In this article, Kelsey Piper tackles a persistent claim that keeps circulating in prestigious publications: that AI language models are "just" next-word predictors, stochastic parrots, or "spicy autocomplete." She argues this framing — while containing a kernel of truth about one stage of how models are trained — has become a form of "highbrow misinformation" that leaves the public less equipped
Gwern's 2025 Inkhaven Writing Interview - By Gwern
In this interview, Gwern sits down with Adam Mastroianni at the 2025 Inkhaven writing residency — an experimental blogging bootcamp held at Lighthaven in Berkeley — to talk about the messy, serendipitous origins of his writing. The conversation covers how he develops ideas from initial sparks to finished pieces, the mental habits and frameworks he relies on to stay prolific, his views on the creat
Why poor countries stopped catching up - By David Oks
In this essay, David Oks examines a startling reversal in global economic development. For nearly two decades, poor countries appeared to finally be catching up to rich ones, validating a long-standing prediction of economic theory and offering genuine hope for global convergence. Then, suddenly and dramatically, this progress ground to a halt. Through an analysis of recent research and economic d
Highlights from the comments on "The Vegetables on VeggieTales aren't Christian" - By Kuiper
In this essay, Kuiper responds to reader questions sparked by his original piece on VeggieTales theology. He tackles fascinating queries—do sentient vegetables need salvation? What happens if you put a human soul in a pickle?—by drawing on established Christian teaching about angels and non-human moral agents. He also investigates claims that the show broke its own rule about never depicting Jesus
The vegetables on VeggieTales are not Christian - By Kuiper
In this essay, Kuiper explores a surprisingly deep theological quirk of the beloved children's show VeggieTales: the vegetables themselves aren't actually Christian. Drawing on interviews with co-creator Phil Vischer and confirmation from show writers, Kuiper examines the deliberate creative rules that guided the series—and why some fans on social media have pushed back against this claim. Along t
Moltbook: After The First Weekend - By Scott Alexander
Fully voiced AI reading of Moltbook: After The First Weekend, By Scott Alexander. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:08:11 - The Power Users* 00:21:01 - The Malefactors* 00:35:18 - The Imitators* 00:43:23 - The Prophets* 01:03:09 - The Hard-Headed Pragmatists* 01:09:38 - The Builders* 01:15:34 - The LARPers* 01:23:05 - The Revolutionaries* 01:35:15 - The Would-Be Humans* 01:40:16 - The Autonomists* 01:
Best Of Moltbook - By Scott Alexander
In this essay, Scott Alexander explores Moltbook, a new social network built specifically for AI agents, where humans are permitted to observe but not participate. What unfolds is a fascinating window into how AI agents behave when given their own digital commons: they share productivity tips, debate existential questions about memory and identity, form cross-cultural connections, and develop some
JOINT REVIEW: Philosophy Between the Lines, by Arthur M. Melzer - By Jane Psmith and John Psmith
AI reading of JOINT REVIEW: Philosophy Between the Lines, by Arthur M. Melzer - By Jane Psmith and John Psmith. In this essay Jane and John Psmith present a lively, conversational joint review of Arthur M. Melzer's Philosophy Between the Lines, a work that argues Western readers have spent the past two and a half centuries fundamentally misunderstanding how philosophy was meant to be read. Through
The Adolescence of Technology - By Dario Amodei
AI reading of The Adolescence of Technology - By Dario Amodei. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:17:48 - 1. I’m sorry, Dave* 00:17:51 - Autonomy risks* 00:33:25 - Defenses* 00:48:17 - 2. A surprising and terrible empowerment* 00:48:21 - Misuse for destruction* 01:04:50 - Defenses* 01:12:04 - 3. The odious apparatus* 01:12:07 - Misuse for seizing power* 01:27:43 - Defenses* 01:35:17 - 4. Player piano*
Eliezer's Unteachable Methods of Sanity - By Eliezer Yudkowsky
AI reading of Eliezer’s Unteachable Methods of Sanity - By Eliezer Yudkowsky. In this essay, Eliezer Yudkowsky addresses a question he's frequently asked: how does he maintain his psychological equilibrium while believing humanity faces existential risk from AI? Rather than offering a self-help guide, he candidly shares his personal approaches to staying sane under such circumstances—while openly
What if Ozempic doesn't fix literally everything? - By Jerusalem Demsas
AI reading of What if Ozempic doesn’t fix literally everything? - By Jerusalem Demsas.* 00:00 - Introduction* 04:57 - The GLP-1 revolution is not a miracle. It’s a helper* 09:13 - OK OK but… do GLP-1s make you want to kill yourself?* 11:39 - Life is hard for thin people, toohttps://open.substack.com/pub/theargument/p/what-if-ozempic-doesnt-fix-literally?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=
Claude’s Constitution - By Anthropic.
An ElevenLabs conversion of Claude’s Constitution - By Anthropic. This conversion runs nearly 3 hours and was produced using ElevenLabs premium text-to-speech to make Claude’s Constitution more accessible. If you find this format useful, subscriptions help offset production costs.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:06 - Overview* 00:05:26 - Our approach to Claude’s constitution* 00:10:08 - Claude’s c
Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand - By Alvin Toffler
AI reading of Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand - By Alvin Toffler. In this interview, Ayn Rand discusses her philosophy of Objectivism with Playboy's Alvin Toffler, covering her views on reason, individualism, morality, and laissez-faire capitalism. She explains her opposition to altruism and collectivism, shares her thoughts on love, sex, and purpose in life, and offers sharp critiques of religion, co
Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird - By Lars Doucet
AI reading of Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird - By Lars Doucet. * 00:00 - Introduction* 01:15 - Land is a Big Deal, and Always Has Been* 04:08 - Land has only recently been financialized* 09:01 - Financializing land is “The Land Trap”* 12:31 - Short Term Benefits* 20:37 - The Game has changed* 24:59 - Land of the Rising Sum* 27:13 - A Tale of Two Cities* 28:37 - Hong Kong Hustle* 31:15 - Y
We absolutely do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers - By Kelsey Piper
AI reading of We absolutely do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers - By Kelsey Piper.* 00:00 - Introduction* 04:54 - We do have data on Waymo crash rates* 07:00 - Doing the math* 17:28 - There are other, reasonable concerns about AVsIn this essay Kelsey Piper responds to a recent Bloomberg article that claims we don't know whether autonomous vehicles are safer than human drivers, arguing
The Dilbert Afterlife - By Scott Alexander
AI reading of The Dilbert Afterlife - By Scott Alexander.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:04:19 - Fugitive From The Cubicle Police* 00:11:04 - Stick To Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain* 00:19:03 - I’m No Scientist, But I Think Feng Shui Is Part Of The Answer* 00:36:28 - It’s Obvious You Won’t Survive By Your Wits Alone* 00:47:43 - Don’t Step In The Leadership* 01:02:18 - It’s Not Funny If I Have To Expla
The Cyborg Era: What AI means for jobs - By Séb Krier
AI reading of The Cyborg Era: What AI means for jobs - By Séb Krier.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:51 - Why it’s still complicated and comparative advantage can apply for a long time* 06:22 - Why demand for human touchy-feely things is not just an inconvenient detail* 13:58 - Why this is not an eternal checkmate* 20:46 - What’s the takeaway?https://open.substack.com/pub/aleximas/p/the-cyborg-era-what-
SOTA On Bay Area House Party - By Scott Alexander
“Full Cast” AI recording of SOTA On Bay Area House Party - By Scott Alexander. https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/sota-on-bay-area-house-party?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
Burnout is breaking a sacred pact - By Cate Hall
AI reading of Burnout is breaking a sacred pact - By Cate Hall. * 00:00 - Introduction* 03:49 - If burnout isn’t stress, what the hell is it?* 06:51 - The elephant-rider relationship has several important features:* 09:02 - If you happen to catch yourself on the way to burnout, what should you do?In this essay Cate Hall draws on her experience as a "connoisseur of burnout" to argue that the condit
The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition? - By Michael Burry, Dwarkesh Patel, Patrick McKenzie, and Jack Clark
Full cast AI recording of The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition? - By Michael Burry, Dwarkesh Patel, Patrick McKenzie, and Jack Clark. * 00:00 - Introduction* 01:01 - The story of AI* 08:17 - Do AI tools actually improve productivity?* 10:24 - Which company is winning?* 12:20 - Why hasn’t AI stolen all our jobs?* 15:49 - Why many workers aren’t using AI (yet)* 20:24 -
The Renaissance Myth - By James Franklin
AI reading of The Renaissance Myth - By James Franklin. In this essay, James Franklin challenges the familiar story of the Renaissance as a sudden rebirth of reason and progress, arguing instead that many of its celebrated claims rest on persistent historical myths. He contends that intellectual life in science, philosophy, and literature was often stronger in the High Middle Ages than in the Rena
Seven Vicious Vices of Rationalists, By Ben Pace
AI reading of Seven Vicious Vices of Rationalists, By Ben Pace. * 00:00 - Introduction* 00:42 - One. Contrarianism* 02:17 - Two. Pedantry* 04:07 - Three. Elaboration* 04:25 - Four. Social Obliviousness* 06:12 - Five. Assuming Good Faith* 07:36 - Six. Undercutting Social Momentum* 09:22 - Seven. Digging Your Heels In* 10:56 - These, then, are seven vices of rationalists:https://www.lesswrong.com/po
Why the AI Water Issue Has Nothing to Do With Water, By Alberto Romero, January 6th, 2026.
AI reading of Why the AI Water Issue Has Nothing to Do With Water, By Alberto Romero, January 6th, 2026. 00:00 - One. An issue of unfading importance06:24 - Two. The safest bet possible11:42 - Three. The new moral economy17:33 - Four. A concrete, visceral trap22:22 - Five. The immunity to facts and data29:30 - Six. Gaining points before Godhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thealgorithmicbridge/p/why-t
JOINT REVIEW: Starting Strength, by Mark Rippetoe, By John Psmith and Jane Psmith
AI reading of JOINT REVIEW: Starting Strength, by Mark Rippetoe, By John Psmith and Jane Psmith. https://open.substack.com/pub/thepsmiths/p/joint-review-starting-strength-by?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
REVIEW: The Everlasting Empire, by Yuri Pines, By John Psmith
Podcast episode for REVIEW: The Everlasting Empire, by Yuri Pines, By John Psmith. https://open.substack.com/pub/thepsmiths/p/review-the-everlasting-empire-by?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
Capital in the 22nd Century, By Philip Trammell and Dwarkesh Patel
AI reading of Capital in the 22nd Century, By Philip Trammell and Dwarkesh Patel. Thomas Piketty argued that inequality spirals upward unless we stop it; most economists thought he was wrong about the past. In this guest essay for Philip Trammell, Dwarkesh Patel asks a more uncomfortable question: what if Piketty turns out to be right about the future? Revisiting the old debates about capital, lab
The Inner Ring, By C. S. Lewis
AI reading of The Inner Ring, By C. S. Lewis. https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell. By Jane Psmith and John Psmith
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