AI Article Readings

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 T...

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...

“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

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 co...

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...

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...

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.lesswro...

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 importance 06:24 - Two. The safest bet possible 11:42 - Three. The new moral economy 17:33 - Four. A concrete, visceral trap 22:22 - Five. The immunity to facts and data 29:30 - Six. Gaining points before God https://open.substack.com/pub/thealgorithmicbridge/p...

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

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

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