AI

Matters Of⁠ ⁠Scale⁠:

• ⁠“Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?”, EpochAI (yes)

• “Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer? China’s elite is split over artificial intelligence”⁠ (maybe Xi just isn’t that into AI)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “Analysis of 3.6 million individuals yields minimal evidence of pairwise genetic interactions for height”⁠, Jabalameliet al2024 (height: still just additive)

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

• ⁠“The Mouse as a Microscope” (creating & breeding the mouse model organism)

Statistics/Meta-Science

Politics/Religion

• “Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage”⁠, Wooten2024

Psychology/Biology

• “The evolution of perennially enlarged breasts in women: a critical review and a novel hypothesis”⁠, Pawłowski & Żelaźniewicz 2021 (there are still no good explanations for why women have large breasts⁠)

• “Hormonal doping and androgenization of athletes: a secret program of the German Democratic Republic government”⁠, Frank & Berendonk1997; “The Chinese Sports Machine’s Single Goal: The Most Golds, at Any Cost”⁠

• ⁠“WTH is Cerebrolysin, actually? Some claim it’s a panacea for brain diseases, but does this pig brain concoction live up to the hype?” (see also Cerebrolysin researcher fraud⁠)

• Gallstones⁠

• “A brief history of cross-species organ transplantation”⁠, Cooper2012 (a patient in 1963_62ya survived⁠ with a chimpanzee kidney for 9 months, dying of apparently a minor flaw—a record ~7 months better than the best pig kidney transplant as of 2024)

Technology

• ⁠Silver bullets work

Economics

Philosophy

Fiction

Miscellaneous