# alexander wales (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover alexander wales. Page: Feed: --- ## [Episode 70 - Defending Alex's Characters from Alex](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rationally-writing/episodes/Episode-70---Defending-Alexs-Characters-from-Alex-e3jdjsj) _2026-05-15 · Rationally Writing · Rationally Writing_ Daystar has noticed a trend in Alex's writing, and the two get into what it actually means to be a "bad" vs a "good" person. It doesn't exactly start as an intervention, but it arguably gets there by the end. Hosted by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daystar Eld⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alexander Wales⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . With thanks to Tim Yarbrough for the Intro/Outro music, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠G.A.T.O Must Be Respected [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/872330c/podcast/play/120032595/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-15%2Faff85527-e827-49a5-ed90-e2531309d08d.m4a) ## [Unused Starfish Facts](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/unused-starfish-facts) _2026-04-28 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I wrote a short story a few days ago, about a girl throwing starfish in the ocean, which I’m going to post in full here, then tell you about some starfish facts that didn’t make it into the story. ## [The Superlatives of Duluth, MN](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/the-superlatives-of-duluth-mn) _2026-04-25 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I often tell people that Lake Superior is the largest lake in the world, probably, then wait for them to ask me what I mean by “probably” so I can share my fun facts about the largest lakes in the world and how you have to massage the data to make that claim without reservations. ## [The Death of Pseudonym](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/the-death-of-pseudonym) _2026-04-23 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ As Kelsey Piper writes, LLMs are now capable of identifying unmarked authors, so long as they have a sufficiently large corpus of content on the internet. ## [Against Foghorns](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/against-foghorns) _2026-04-19 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I’m staying at a place in Bodega Bay, California, which is beset by a foghorn. ## [Contra Alexander Wales on Non-renewable Blogging](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/contra-alexander-wales-on-non-renewable) _2026-04-13 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ Yesterday Alexander Wales published “Non-renewable Blogging” a post on the idea that an author can run out of material, or that certain areas of a blogger’s life can be “mined” for material. ## [Non-renewable Blogging](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/non-renewable-blogging) _2026-04-12 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I think a lot about the idea of being used up. ## [Can an LLM have taste? Inkhaven Week 1, ranked by Claude](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/can-an-llm-have-taste-inkhaven-week) _2026-04-10 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ The obvious answer to the headline question is “yes” and then the followup question of whether that taste is good, and most people would immediately say “no”. ## [Contra Aella on Status](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/contra-aella-on-status) _2026-04-07 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I’ve visited Berkeley a few times, and whenever I’m with the rationalists, it feels like there will inevitably be at least one conversation about status. ## [Fundamental functions of description and detail in prose](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/fundamental-functions-of-description) _2026-04-06 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I tend to write by intuition, then try to edit with my analysis goggles on, which means that I’m often looking at the words I’ve put on the page and thinking about why they are the way they are, what else might need to go there, and what the functions those words are serving. ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kPW73cKD42WV) _2026-04-06 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [Use Cases for AI in Creative Writing](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/use-cases-for-ai-in-creative-writing) _2026-04-01 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ As someone with a heavy interest in both creative writing and artificial intelligence, I often get asked “do you use AI to write?” ## [Episode 69 - Political Violence in Fiction](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rationally-writing/episodes/Episode-69---Political-Violence-in-Fiction-e3grpqb) _2026-03-23 · Rationally Writing · Rationally Writing_ Daystar and Alexander talk about the various pitfalls, contradictions, and complications in writing heroes or villains who commit political violence... or don't, as the case may be. Hosted by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daystar Eld⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alexander Wales⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . With thanks to Tim Yarbrough for the Intro/Outro music, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠G.A.T.O Must Be Respected [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/872330c/podcast/play/117351691/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-23%2F7fdf8a21-a65d-80aa-7c76-71da40ae1005.mp3) ## [Er, How Are These AI Companies Going to Make Money?](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/er-how-are-these-ai-companies-going) _2026-03-12 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I was in Berkeley a year ago, talking to someone who worked for one of the major AI companies, and when I questioned the financial sense of LLMs, they said this in response: ## [A Year and a Half on tumblr](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/a-year-and-a-half-on-tumblr) _2025-12-02 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I started blogging on tumblr about a year and a half ago, a great move for me given that it’s widely considered a dead platform. ## [Inkhaven Retrospective](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/inkhaven-retrospective) _2025-12-01 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ Inkhaven was an event held at Lighthaven where 41 bloggers came to do 30 posts of 500 words or more in 30 days. ## [Could Margot Robbie Destroy Me?](https://alexanderwales.substack.com/p/could-margot-robbie-destroy-me) _2025-11-24 · Alexander Wales · Alexander Wales_ I’ve lately been asking people whether they think they could be friends with Margot Robbie. ## [Episode 68 - Red Heart (Guest: Max Harms)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rationally-writing/episodes/Episode-68---Red-Heart-Guest-Max-Harms-e3ahloa) _2025-11-05 · Rationally Writing · Rationally Writing_ Daystar and Alex invite Max back on the podcast to talk about his new novel, ⁠Red Heart⁠ , a modern sci-fi thriller that follows an American spy sent to a Chinese AI lab to investigate how far ahead their capabilities are compared to the US. Max works at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and has been thinking about the state of AI Safety for over a decade now. He's also written the… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/872330c/podcast/play/110728394/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-10-5%2Fad4776aa-1f73-5831-187d-09db61f206c9.m4a) ## [Episode 67 - MTG Colors, Writing Tops & Bottoms (Guest: TK17)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rationally-writing/episodes/Episode-67---MTG-Colors--Writing-Tops--Bottoms-Guest-TK17-e39mnll) _2025-10-19 · Rationally Writing · Rationally Writing_ Daystar and Alexander hang out with Duncan Sabien (TK17) at LessOnline, and invite him back on the show to chat about his views on the Magic the Gathering Color Wheel this time, as well as some other stuff ⁠ . Duncan is the writer of Animorphs: The Reckoning , as well as a variety of other great essays on culture, epistemology, and more. Co-hosted by ⁠⁠Alexander Wales⁠⁠ With thanks to Tim… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/872330c/podcast/play/109845621/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-9-18%2Feeead0e7-b06d-a80c-c4fe-8c4276b939f0.mp3) ## [Episode 66 - The Crystal Trilogy (Guest: Max Harms)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rationally-writing/episodes/Episode-66---The-Crystal-Trilogy-Guest-Max-Harms-e3925ek) _2025-10-03 · Rationally Writing · Rationally Writing_ Daystar and Alexander hang out with Max Harms at LessOnline, and invite him to record an episode on his books Crystal Society , Crystal Mentality , and Crystal Eternity . Max works at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and the trilogy is an imagining of what Artificial General Intelligence might be like, written from the perspective of one of the AI's subagents. His newest book, Red… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/872330c/podcast/play/109171604/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-9-3%2F7190231b-2113-8a6f-ddeb-cde8a5752930.m4a) ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vdeazcfOmKZc) _2025-10-03 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [Episode 65 - AI and Contemporary Fiction](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rationally-writing/episodes/Episode-65---AI-and-Contemporary-Fiction-e2oaj12) _2024-09-12 · Rationally Writing · Rationally Writing_ Daystar and Alexander talk about AI in writing, both for creating fiction and its impact on writing fiction set in the modern world. Hosted by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Daystar Eld⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Alexander Wales⁠⁠⁠⁠ . With thanks to Tim Yarbrough for the Intro/Outro music, ⁠⁠⁠⁠G.A.T.O Must Be Respected [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/872330c/podcast/play/91621858/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-8-12%2F0cd80e68-ece8-4a8c-f746-888f74d25a5c.mp3)