AI Article Readings

Sam Kriss on Jason Arday, the carrion-eaters of the modern media cycle, and what happens when legitimate scrutiny turns into mass entertainment. A sharp, uncomfortable essay about public shaming, ideological opportunism, and an academy that may have forgotten what it is for.

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-carrion-eaters?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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A remarkable review of The Escape Artist, the true story of Rudolf Vrba’s escape from Auschwitz, and his far harder struggle to convince the world what was happening there. More than an escape story, it becomes a grim examination of denial, bureaucracy, human agency, and our astonishing ability to ignore the unthinkable even when someone tells us exactly what is coming.

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 02:28 - One

* 06:51 - Two

* 09:57 - Three

* 22:27 - Four

* 28:46 - Five

* 34:08 - Six

* 41:41 - Seven

https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-the-escape-artist?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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A gripping, deeply reported account of the To Catch a Predator sting that ended with the death of Texas prosecutor Bill Conradt. Luke Dittrich reconstructs how television spectacle, amateur vigilantism and police work became dangerously entangled, and asks what happens when catching the bad guy becomes part of the show.

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3269/to-catch-a-predator/

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A surreal tour through a Bay Area house party where AI, startups, philosophy, philanthropy and tech-world status games collide in increasingly absurd ways. Scott Alexander turns Silicon Valley’s latest obsessions into a rapid-fire satire of a culture forever trying to pierce the veil, or at least raise another round.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/the-foothills-of-bay-area-house-party?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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What if you could get the useful part of caffeine without still feeling it at bedtime? Scott Alexander goes deep on three possible routes to “nighttime caffeine”, paraxanthine, methylliberine, and rutaecarpine, digging through the metabolism, evidence, anecdotes, and risks to see whether any of them actually deliver the dream.

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 04:47 - The Enzyme

* 16:03 - The Metabolite

* 21:58 - The Starting Chemical

* 26:55 - Practical Protocols

https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/the-quest-for-caffeine-you-can-have?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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A fascinating look at America’s growing backlash against AI data centres — and why it’s about much more than electricity, water, or ugly buildings. Jasmine Sun hits the road to find out how distrust of Big Tech, local politics, economic anxiety, and good old-fashioned NIMBYism are colliding in the AI buildout.

https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard

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Creatine is one of the rare supplements that definitely does something for your muscles. But what about your brain?

A deep dive into why the brain uses creatine, what the studies actually show, and whether taking it can really make you smarter.

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https://dynomight.substack.com/p/creatine

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Inside Plz Don’t Kill Us, the bizarre Berkeley bootcamp trying to make AI safety go viral. Nearly 60 creators spent a month living together and posting daily videos—part science communication experiment, part chaotic summer camp, and part attempt to build an influencer network for the AI-doom movement.

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https://www.transformernews.ai/p/inside-ai-safety-influencer-bootcamp-plz-dont-kill-us

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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?

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https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-forecasting-have-room-at-the

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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.

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* 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

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