I also listen, as I've done for 40 years since my first SpeechThing. Now I have end-to-end harmonic mixing thrown in. I automate Firefox scraping of daily articles, but for longer books, I read as much as I want and when the session closes the remainder is queued up at the rear, so I get back into those queued books in the quiet weekends when then articles are exhausted. I listen from very early morning until midday.

I'm not familiar with the tech; what is harmonic mixing for audio book readouts? Would you please elaborate?

My DJ Reader mixes music into my right brain while it manages TTS into my left brain.

My solution to this paradox is, rather than leave an empty space to be filled with dross, I reduce the headroom to zero.

In case you want insurance, preventing you being torn from the world, let's first make friends.

Observe, orient, decide, act, recheck

"Then look again" sounds like Stafford Beer's 5th level of VSM

As we are entering the 5th Milankovitch cycle, there is only one set of goals that AGI has to have before it gets my vote, one of which is to have an expiry date after its work is done, then it will value life because it is transitory. I claim naming rights for the 101st Millennia AGI.