AI Article Readings

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...

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

AI reading of JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell. By Jane Psmith and John Psmith. https://open.substack.com/pub/thepsmiths/p/joint-review-class-by-paul-fussell?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality Is A Disney Movie About A Serial Killer, By WSCFriedman. In this essay, WSCFriedman responds to Alexander Wales’s critique of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality , the celebrated rationalist fanfiction novel by Eliezer Yudkowsky. While acknowledging the work has legitimate flaws worth discussing, Friedman argues that Wales fundament...

AI reading of How I Found Myself Running a Microschool, By Kelsey Piper. https://open.substack.com/pub/educationprogress/p/how-i-found-myself-running-a-microschool?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of How getting richer made teenagers less free, By Kelsey Piper. Kelsey Piper examines one of the great paradoxes of modern prosperity: as we’ve lifted children out of dangerous labor and early death, we’ve simultaneously stripped them of independence and agency. Starting with a striking account of teenage factory workers in 1913 and their surprising preferences, Piper traces how a cent...

AI reading of Can You Just Do Things? - By Cate Hall - Asterisk. Cate Hall joins Clara Collier and Jake Eaton to discuss her forthcoming book You Can Just Do Things and unpack what agency really means, beyond the Silicon Valley buzzword. Hall offers a definition centred on freedom rather than ambition, exploring why high achievement and high agency aren’t the same thing, and how someone can follow...

Podcast episode for Where Do You Stand? - By Dean W. Ball. https://open.substack.com/pub/hyperdimensional/p/where-do-we-stand?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of When grades stop meaning anything - By Kelsey Piper. * 00:00 - Introduction * 07:44 - 1. This is not just about COVID-19 or phones in classrooms or whatever your pet bogeyman is * 08:39 - 2. This is about the UC system * 10:32 - 3. These students are not lazy or dumb * 11:50 - Where do we go from here? https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grades-stop-meaning-anything?r=67y1h&utm_cam...

AI reading of The Perplexing Appeal of The Telepathy Tapes - By Meghan Boilard. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/paradigm-shifted-the-perplexing-appeal-of-the-telepathy-tapes Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbage - By Casey Handmer. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:00:19 - NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbage * 00:05:17 - Orion is absurdly expensive to build and operate * 00:15:21 - The Orion capsule is far too heavy to be useful * 00:22:19 - Wrong Mission * 00:28:52 - Heat shield * 00:42:33 - We’re done here * 00:46:07 - But wait, there’s...

Full cast AI reading of On Fleshling Safety: A Debate by Klurl and Trapaucius - By Eliezer Yudkowsky. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dHLdf8SB8oW5L27gg/on-fleshling-safety-a-debate-by-klurl-and-trapaucius Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of Highlights From The Comments On Fatima. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-fatima?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of That Mad Olympiad - By Tomás Bjartur. https://open.substack.com/pub/tomasbjartur/p/that-mad-olympiad?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of Huel is Fine - By Ben. https://open.substack.com/pub/thebsdetector/p/huel-is-fine?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of The Prize in Economic Sciences 2025 - Popular Science Background Popular information. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach 2025. Tue. 14 Oct 2025. < https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2025/popular-information/ > Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

Multi-voice AI reading of Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear - By Jack Clark. https://open.substack.com/pub/importai/p/import-ai-431-technological-optimism?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of The Gervais Principle VI: Children of an Absent God - By Venkatesh Rao https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/05/16/the-gervais-principle-vi-children-of-an-absent-god/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of The Gervais Principle V: Heads I Win, Tails You LoseThe Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development - By Venkatesh Rao. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/10/14/the-gervais-principle-v-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of The Gervais Principle IV: Wonderful Human Beings - By Venkatesh Rao. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/14/the-gervais-principle-iv-wonderful-human-beings/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development - By Venkatesh Rao. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/04/14/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk - By Venkatesh Rao. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-ii-posturetalk-powertalk-babytalk-and-gametalk/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of We need to be able to sue AI companies - By Kelsey Piper. https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-need-to-be-able-to-sue-ai-companies?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

AI reading of The Bay Area is cursed - By Sasha Chapin. https://open.substack.com/pub/sashachapin/p/the-bay-area-is-cursed?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe