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  1. Harari vs. Henrich - By Joseph Heath

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    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    Joseph Heath argues that Yuval Harari’s account of human evolution in Sapiens rests on an outdated, intelligence-first story: humans got smarter, developed language, learned to cooperate, and then built culture.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 result is a sharp, accessible guide to one of the most interesting live debates in the human sciences. https://open.substack.com/pub/josephheath/p/harari-vs-henrich?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    31 Min.
  2. Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages - By Ada Palmer

    vor 3 Tagen

    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 should want something better than a new Renaissance—and why achieving that depends on human action, not historical inevitability. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:07:56 - Part 1: Renaissance Life was Worse than the Middle Ages (super-condensed version) * 00:35:12 - Part 2: Where did the Myth Come From in the First Place? (A Renaissance Story) * 00:52:43 - Part 3: Why is the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age Retold so Much? (a post-Renaissance story) * 01:18:40 - Conclusion: We Should Aim for Something Better than the Renaissance https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    1 Std. 34 Min.
  3. What Should Be Done- By Dean W. Ball

    vor 4 Tagen

    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 releases. https://open.substack.com/pub/hyperdimensional/p/what-should-be-done?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    22 Min.
  4. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security - By Gwern

    vor 5 Tagen

    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. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:06:27 - Chatbot Incentives Are Misaligned * 00:10:03 - Chatbot Problems * 00:10:44 - Mode-Collapse * 00:13:09 - Laziness * 00:13:52 - Brittle Because Fast * 00:16:41 - Too Helpful * 00:18:14 - Amnesiac * 00:20:03 - Chatbot Fixes * 00:20:07 - Cooperative RL * 00:22:47 - Continual Learning * 00:22:50 - Catastrophic Forgetting * 00:23:48 - Generalizing * 00:26:32 - Creative Writing * 00:30:03 - Over-Parameterizing * 00:30:30 - Extremely Large LMs * 00:30:57 - Active Learning * 00:33:14 - Preference Learning * 00:36:10 - Brain Imitation Learning * 00:37:05 - Personality Emulation * 00:39:01 - Guardian Angels * 00:40:48 - Principles * 00:42:07 - Anti-Principles * 00:47:06 - UX * 00:48:23 - Use-Cases: Politics & Politics * 00:51:17 - Hardware * 00:52:57 - Cost * 00:55:11 - Organization * 00:56:18 - Startup Business Model * 00:57:43 - Competition * 01:00:20 - Initial Steps * 01:01:35 - GBT * 01:04:18 - For Writing * 01:06:44 - Data Augmentation https://gwern.net/guardian-angel Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    1 Std. 10 Min.
  5. AI sucks. Hating it is not enough - By Alice I. Cecile

    vor 6 Tagen

    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 machine can simply be uninvented. * 00:00 - Introduction * 04:35 - AI sucks. * 06:47 - Boycotts, data centers and NFTs. * 11:09 - Unfortunately AI does work. * 17:05 - Hating AI that works. * 25:15 - A budding Butlerian Jihad. * 27:44 - The limits of boycotts. * 32:28 - Regulation will save us! * 34:36 - Regulation will not save us? * 38:45 - A future worth fighting for. * 42:13 - Regulation that works. * 45:04 - Decentralization that matters. * 48:15 - A future I believe in. https://shaping.systems/blog/ai-sucks-hating-it-is-not-enough/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    51 Min.
  6. Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info? - By Scott Alexander

    23. Juni

    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 screening is less obvious than the slogans on either side suggest. https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/should-people-avoid-whole-body-screening?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    27 Min.
  7. Colder Wars, By Gwern

    19. Juni

    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-dominant, with mutually assured destruction harder to sustain than on Earth. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:23 - First-Strike * 01:25 - Why Strike First? * 04:39 - Fun Space Warfare * 07:44 - Grim Space Warfare * 13:05 - Easy Warfare * 19:55 - Defense * 20:55 - Counter-Point: Nowhere to Hide * 23:50 - Nuclear & Space First-Strikes * 25:58 - Second-Strike * 26:55 - Accountability * 28:05 - Deceiving MAD * 28:50 - Coda https://gwern.net/colder-war Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    29 Min.
  8. Space Warfare Seems Mostly Defense Dominant - By Beren Millidge

    19. Juni

    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 sufficiently paranoid defender could survive by spreading out, staying mobile, building redundant infrastructure, and using vast sensor and laser networks, making conquest ruinously expensive and usually irrational. https://www.beren.io/2025-11-22-Space-Warfare-Seems-Mostly-Defense-Dominant Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    45 Min.
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