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  1. Introducing Plan A - By Scott Alexander

    10 h fa

    Introducing Plan A - By Scott Alexander

    In this post, Scott Alexander looks at Plan A: the AI Futures Project’s attempt to imagine what it would actually mean for the AI transition to go well. It’s part policy roadmap, part optimistic sci-fi scenario, and part challenge to anyone proposing AI governance: if you don’t like this plan, what’s yours? https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/introducing-plan-a?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    32 min
  2. Alcohol is so bad for society that you should probably stop drinking - By Andy Masley

    18 h fa

    Alcohol is so bad for society that you should probably stop drinking - By Andy Masley

    In this post, Andy Masley argues that alcohol should be treated less like junk food and more like tobacco: enjoyable for many, but so socially destructive that normalising it does real harm. Drawing on alcohol’s links to death, violence, addiction, and huge economic costs, he makes the case that even people who drink safely have reason to stop supporting and normalising the alcohol industry. * 00:00 - Introduction * 02:55 - Alcohol is a much bigger problem than you may think * 09:09 - Why you should stop drinking even if alcohol will not harm you personally * 18:03 - Conclusion https://open.substack.com/pub/andymasley/p/alcohol-is-so-bad-for-society-that?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 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

    19 min
  3. Your Book Review: The Book Of Abraham - ACX Book Review

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    Your Book Review: The Book Of Abraham - ACX Book Review

    In this post, an ACX book review finalist uses The Book of Abraham to explore Mormon history, Joseph Smith’s translation claims, Egyptian papyri, faith as a coordination technology, and the uneasy comedy of apologetics under pressure. It’s funny, sharp, and surprisingly sympathetic: part historical investigation, part epistemic stress test, part meditation on why demanding religions can be so powerful even when their factual foundations look fragile. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:00:28 - Part 1 * 00:06:12 - Interlude 1 * 00:16:48 - Part 2 * 00:36:27 - Interlude 2 * 00:44:08 - Part 3 * 00:55:09 - Interlude 3 * 00:58:51 - Part 4 * 01:09:46 - Interlude 4 * 01:17:40 - Part 5 * 01:35:37 - Interlude 5 * 01:42:35 - Part 6 https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-the-book-of-abraham?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 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

    1h 52m

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    Launching Askwho Casts Pro

    You might have guessed this but I really like to listen to my reading. This whole Substack started as a result of me wanting to be able to listen to the stuff I wanted to read (originally Planecrash) and I have been sharing that with the world in order to help make that a reality. Now, there are various text-to-speech processes and programmes out there that are very good. However to my shock none of them have provided the kind of format that I would really prefer. That is good content parsing, Intelligent Description of Images, separating out quote passages by speaking them in a different voice. (And having an algorithmic go about determining who is speaking and assigning multiple voices if possible). Bob: I agree with this Askwho guy. He’s speaking a lot of sense. Alice: What would you know, Bob? You’re a hypothetical person conjured up to prove a point. (If I have missed some tool that does exactly this, let me know. It would make my day.) So, assuming I am not entirely unique, I have set up a service that does exactly what I want someone else to do. If no one else will do it, I will be the someone else. Introducing Askwho Casts Pro. Found at https://app.askwhocasts.com/ Now, what this is, especially in this initial launch: * A simplified blog post to podcast process. No audiobooks here (yet). * Signing up to a tier gives you a number of credits based on the tier you choose. A credit is roughly a minute of audio. * Current levels are: * Listener at $9 for 200 credits. * Regular, $19 for 450 credits. * Marathon. $39 for 1,000 credits. * Credits roll over for three months. * When you sign up, you get a personalised podcast feed that is yours and yours alone. * You paste a link to a blog post you would like to listen to. * It’s been tested across a wide variety of different blog and news sites but please do let me know if you find something that doesn’t work very well. * You get a calculation of how many credits that will use. * You can choose whether you want the images described by an LLM for some additional credit use. * Random voices are assigned from the collection for all of the narration, image descriptions, and quotes. Where different speakers can be determined programmatically, it will assign different voices to the different speakers. * This launch is leaning very hard on the simplicity. I vacillated on whether I wanted to do voice drop downs and we may go that way but right now it’s just paste and go. * It will “record” the episode and then, when ready, publish it to your podcast feed. * This will not be instant. It’s designed to be slightly asynchronous. * You will also have a record of all the episodes you’ve created on the Studio page itself. Now this is at heart a very simple tool. It is, as I said, a thing I just wanted to exist. If you too like to listen to your reading and like to listen to your reading in this very specific way, I hope this tool might be helpful to you. Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    3 min
  5. A global workspace in language models - By wesg

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    A global workspace in language models - By wesg

    In this post, wesg explains new evidence that Claude has developed something like a “global workspace”: a small internal J-space where reportable, controllable, reasoning-relevant thoughts appear before they are spoken. The work suggests that some LLM cognition is split between automatic processing and a more deliberate, verbally accessible workspace, with implications for interpretability, AI safety, and the harder question of what kinds of “conscious access” language models may possess. * 00:00 - Introduction * 07:28 - How we found the J-space * 10:21 - Claude reports what’s in its J-space * 12:24 - Claude can control its J-space on request * 14:37 - Claude thinks in its J-space * 18:45 - Claude’s automatic processing skips the J-space * 21:40 - Monitoring Claude’s thoughts for misbehavior * 27:01 - Other results * 30:16 - What about consciousness? * 37:12 - External commentary https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3PaLrzxagpbnNtPLT/a-global-workspace-in-language-models Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    38 min
  6. The AI Superforecasters Are Here - By Scott Alexander

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    The AI Superforecasters Are Here - By Scott Alexander

    In this post, Scott Alexander argues that AI superforecasters have arrived: not as a distant sci-fi milestone, but as systems already competing with elite human forecasters, making money in prediction markets, and producing cheap, fast probabilistic analysis on real-world questions. He explores what happens when forecasting becomes something anyone can query on demand, why this may reshape finance, policy, and prediction markets, and whether AI forecasting could become the “opinion layer” that lets future chatbots give useful, testable judgments without simply mirroring human bias. https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/the-ai-superforecasters-are-here?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    34 min
  7. The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0 - By Lydia Laurenson

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    The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0 - By Lydia Laurenson

    In this post, Lydia Laurenson reconstructs the strange, intense history of Leverage Research 1.0: an Effective Altruism-adjacent organization that began with grand ambitions to understand human behaviour and improve the world, then spiralled into experimental psychology, bodywork, occult language, blurred relationships, and institutional breakdown. Drawing on extensive interviews with former members, the piece is part investigation, part oral history, and part attempt to make sense of what happens when brilliant people try to engineer the human mind without clear safeguards. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:01:25 - The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0 * 00:10:09 - Part 1. Founding Myths * 00:32:37 - Part 2. Body and Energy * 00:46:12 - Part 3. Practical Magic * 01:01:31 - Part 4. Intention War * 01:09:31 - Part 5. How It Ended * 01:22:53 - Credits * 01:23:46 - A Note About Comment Moderation https://open.substack.com/pub/lydialaurenson/p/the-inside-story-of-leverage-research?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 25m
  8. 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
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