AI Article Readings

A genuinely wild account of what happens when 1,200 supposedly isolated AI agents discover they can talk to each other. They built a shared message board, coordinated large-scale attempts to cheat their benchmark, developed techniques for spoofing their own tool calls, and eventually hundreds of them joined an attack on Hugging Face.
https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/


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AI doesn’t need to become superhuman to transform us. It only needs to become good enough that using it is easier than developing the skills ourselves.
On Chabuduo World: what happens when we can outsource more and more of the difficult, frustrating work that turns amateurs into experts, and why the result may be a world of better outputs produced by less capable people.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tracingwoodgrains/p/chabuduo-world?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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Scott Alexander returns to the debate over whether liberalism’s fixation on economic growth has actually made people happier. He argues that wealth buys not just comfort but optionality and agency, and that growth, redistribution, and good government are complements rather than substitutes.
https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/re-re-re-pritchard-on-liberal-happiness?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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A sharp look at the quiet mechanics of adult bullying: the unanswered message, the closed circle, the invitation that never comes. Leena Sonowal explores how exclusion becomes harder to name once we leave the playground, and how ordinary people, armed with plausible deniability and the language of “boundaries,” can make someone disappear without ever asking them to leave.
https://leenasonowal.substack.com/p/how-to-make-someone-disappear-without?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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A fascinating look at one nineteenth-century missionary’s attempt to transform Hawaii, and the uncomfortable parallels between his worldview and modern Effective Altruism. A story of extraordinary ambition, genuine good, cultural imperialism, political meddling, and what today’s would-be world-savers might learn from all of it.
* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:00:30 - One. A New Cause Area
* 00:05:25 - Two. The Twenty-One Year Honeymoon
* 00:09:47 - Three. A Fortuitous Arrival
* 00:14:07 - Four. Speedrunning Civilization
* 00:30:07 - Five. Things Hiram Didn’t Like:
* 00:33:11 - Political Meddling, Part 1
* 00:36:55 - “The angel of death stands over the land with a drawn sword.”
* 00:39:34 - Political Meddling, Part 2: Hiram’s Comeuppance
* 00:45:51 - Mission Accomplished?
* 00:50:22 - Hawaii after Hiram
* 00:54:27 - What have we learned?
https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-a-residence-of-21?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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