AI

• “An Invitation to Imitation”, Bagnell2015 (tutorial on imitation learning, DAgger etc—highly relevant to LLMs as they are just imitation-learning RL agents)

• “Inside the mind of a superhuman Go model: How does Leela Zero read ladders?”

• “SolidGoldMagikarp” and other unspeakable strings for GPT-3 (more BPE pathologies)

• “Anime Rock Paper Scissors”, Corridor Digital (making-of; short using actors against Unreal Engine 5 backgrounds + Stable Diffusion style transfer to Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust + finetuned on actors; animators’ commentary)

  • “ANIME ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS 2” (featuring the circle game; making-of)

Matters Of Scale:

• What went wrong with MS Bing ‘Sydney’ compared to ChatGPT? MS didn’t RLHF-train it at all

• “Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT: The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t always that way.”

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “Uncovering the Heritable Components of Multimorbidities and Disease Trajectories: A Nationwide Cohort Study”, Westergaard et al 2023 (n = 6.3m Danes, heritability >1k diseases/genetic correlation on 424 diseases); “Multi-PGS enhances polygenic prediction by combining 937 polygenic scores”, Albiñana et al 2023

• “A 12-gene pharmacogenetic panel to prevent adverse drug reactions: an open-label, multicentre, controlled, cluster-randomised crossover implementation study”, Swen et al 2023

• “A Little-Known Inflammatory Disease Is Hiding in Plain Sight” (genetic diseases caused by somatic mutations are now being found)

• “Identification and analysis of individuals who deviate from their genetically-predicted phenotype”, Hawkes et al 2023 (extreme-case analysis)

Engineering:

• “DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap”, Hoose et al 2023 (review)

• “Girl with deadly inherited condition is cured with gene therapy on NHS”

• “Changing cancer’s course: How genetic science gave 3 All-American athletes a future” (a PGD success story)

• “Public views on polygenic screening of embryos: Understanding moral acceptability and willingness to use is crucial for informing policy”, Meyer et al 2023

• “For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest”

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: the transparent Psi project”, Kekecs et al 2023 (methodology testbed: preregistered adversarial collaboration, video-recorded real-time timestamped open data with large well-powered n; no psi found)

Politics/Religion

• “How Finland’s Green Party Chose Nuclear Power”

• “Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views”, Jakesch et al 2023; “Artificial Intelligence Can Persuade Humans on Political Issues”, Bai et al 2023 (GPT-3-essays as (in)effective as human-written; but best-of-5 essay curation does better)

Psychology/Biology

• “Psychological testing and psychological assessment: A review of evidence and issues”, Meyer et al 2001_23ya (realistic priors on correlates in psychology)

• “Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud”, Scull2023 (more on the fabricated psychiatry experiment & consequences)

• “The Color Currency of Nature”, Humphrey1976

• The Symbion ‘worm’

Technology

• “Mineral Oil Cooled PC”, Puget Systems (killed by a patent troll; RIP)

Economics

• “For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality”, Antman2022

• “The fascinating reason why clowns paint their faces on eggs” (spontaneous order: clown social norms to avoid face-paint art overlap & establish priority)

Fiction

Miscellaneous