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  • August 4 · 22 min

    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 Rule To Geopolitics * 11:34 - Anchors For Possible Non-Miraculous Gains * 18:42 - So What? 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, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-forecasting-have-room-at-the Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • August 1 · 1 hr 21 min

    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 like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:00:31 - Introduction: He Who Saw the Deep * 00:04:06 - Prologue: Uruk * 00:10:11 - Tablets 1 to 2: Gilgamesh and Enkidu * 00:19:32 - Interlude: Versions * 00:28:36 - Tablet 3 to 6: Gilgamesh’s adventures with Enkidu * 00:36:43 - Tablets 7 and 8: The death of Enkidu * 00:38:41 - Interlude: Writing * 00:46:31 - Tablets 9 to 10: Gilgamesh at the edge of the world * 01:04:39 - Tablet 11: Immortality denied * 01:12:45 - Conclusion: We who shall see the Deep https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-the-epic-of-gilgamesh?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 30 · 4 min

    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-on-us/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 30 · 42 min

    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 blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/highlights-from-the-discourse-on?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 28 · 11 min

    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 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, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 24 · 51 min

    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 you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/breakdown-in-pakistan?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 22 · 1 hr 17 min

    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 private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:07:29 - The layers of taste * 00:10:04 - The biological foundations of taste * 00:10:07 - Sensory gatekeepers * 00:11:55 - Evolutionary preferences * 00:13:23 - The role of symmetry * 00:18:32 - Symmetry across brains * 00:21:08 - The cognitive layers of taste * 00:21:10 - The brain as a prediction machine * 00:28:47 - The familiarity principle * 00:30:54 - Meaning and conceptual symmetry * 00:36:28 - Emotional coherence and catharsis * 00:40:12 - Neural annealing * 00:46:21 - The social layers * 00:47:00 - Informational context and knowledge * 00:53:19 - AI art * 00:55:37 - Status games * 00:59:50 - A tasteful new world * 01:00:08 - The richness of complex art * 01:03:27 - Refined taste as enabler * 01:04:58 - Cultural evolution * 01:06:27 - Well-being and meaning * 01:08:27 - Why “better” art matters * 01:10:35 - Conclusion https://on-taste.xyz/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 22 · 7 min

    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 would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 21 · 10 min

    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_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web 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, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 18 · 11 min

    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 Global South. https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyjh/202607/t20260717_11984766.html 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, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 17 · 2 hr 14 min

    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 demand, weak safeguards, professional incentives, and uncritical enthusiasm collide. https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-great-and-desperate?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web 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, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 16 · 31 min

    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, it makes a powerful case for pensions, social insurance, and institutions that separate familial love from material survival. * 00:00 - Introduction * 10:52 - Kinship societies are tense societies * 18:30 - Witch killings are about rationing resources * 26:49 - Mediating institutions mean you don’t have to kill dependents 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, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

  • July 15 · 9 min

    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 Frontier AI Standards Body * 07:47 - The Future Is Not Yet Written https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718 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, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

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