AI Article Readings

<p>In this article, johnswentworth reviews Uri Alon’s An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits, using it to argue against the idea that biology is an incomprehensible tangle of...

<p>In this post, Max Harms reflects on using AI to produce full-cast audiobooks, weighing the creative empowerment it gives him against the fear that he is helping accelerate the replacement of human artists. Through...

<p>In this post Marcus Olang pushes back against the lazy idea that formal, polished prose is automatically a sign of AI, arguing that many so-called ChatGPT “tells” are also the marks of a very human education shaped...

<p>In this post Scott Alexander uses AI fiction, school-essay “wow words,” children’s songs, poetry, architecture, and orange juice to build a theory of taste: bad taste as the overuse of cheap tricks that reliably...

<p>In this post Scott Alexander uses flags, movie plot holes, and tech-company names as “model organisms” for thinking about taste: small, familiar examples where broader arguments about rules, context, elegance...

<p>In this post John Psmith reviews Aaron Reed’s 50 Years of Text Games, using the history of interactive fiction to explore why games made of words once felt magical, why they faded, and why AI might make them newly...

<p>In this post Scott Alexander returns to the topic of artistic taste, responding to thoughtful replies from Ozy, Frank Lantz, and Sympathetic Opposition on a piece he wrote last year. He opens by unpacking eight...

<p>In this essay, Lee Sandlin reflects on how war is remembered, misunderstood, mythologised, and slowly lost to those who never experienced it directly, moving from private family mementos to the vast cultural memory...

<p>This is beautiful. </p><p>https://open.substack.com/pub/nataliercargill/p/it-is-the-end-of-the-world-and-i?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at...

<p>A short story by Max Harms. </p><p>https://open.substack.com/pub/raelifin/p/the-fulcrum?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at...

<p>In this post, Kelsey Piper argues that one of AI’s most prominent critics is making a weaker case than he used to: as AI tools have improved, adoption has grown, and costs have fallen, the serious skeptical argument...

<p>In this post, Jane Psmith reviews Thomas Asbridge’s The Greatest Knight, a biography of William Marshal, using it as a springboard into the violent, strange, and often surprisingly funny world of twelfth-century...

<p>In this post Scott Alexander offers fifteen (and a half) short pieces of writing advice, framed as compensation for missing the first half of Lighthaven's second Inkhaven — a month-long bootcamp where aspiring...

<p>In this post Andy Masley takes a close, critical look at popular claims that data centers produce harmful “infrasound,” using the viral videos of Benn Jordan as a case study in how persuasive, high-production...

<p>In this post Eliezer Yudkowsky writes a satirical news article in which physicists "disprove" pregnancy by showing that women's weight gain during gestation is fully explained by increased eating and drinking, a...