AI

Matters Of Scale:

• “Fast, scalable, clean, and cheap enough: How off-grid solar microgrids can power the AI race”, Baranko et al 2024

• “Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy: A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we’re making”, OpenAI (when RLHF backfires in a way your tests miss)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “The impact on clinical success from the 23andMe cohort”, Wang et al 2024

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence and premature mortality: widespread bias identified using negative control outcomes and sibling comparisons”, Ballin et al 2025 (everything is correlated)

Politics/Religion

Psychology/Biology

• “Snake venom protection by a cocktail of varespladib and broadly neutralizing human antibodies”, Glanville et al 2025 (the madman did it!)

• “Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation”, Enke & Zimmermann2017 (one of the dangers of synthetic media is echoing the same story or fact at you in many different-seeming guises)

• “What Children Fear”, Maurer1965

Technology

Economics

• “Your Right Arm For A Publication In AER?”, Attema et al 2013

Philosophy

Fiction

• “Damien Broderick (1944^–₈₁2025)”