August 2025 News
August 2025 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
August 2025’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, July 2025 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.
Writings
InkHaven: a 1-month Nov 2025 blogging bootcamp at Lighthaven, Berkeley (“Get writing feedback from Scott Alexander, Scott Aaronson, & Gwern. Inkhaven Residency open for applications. A residency for ~30 people to grow into great writers”)
Links
AI
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
Technology
Economics
“This Side of Good and Evil”, 1947 (the economics of a Holocaust slave-labor camp); “The Economic Organization of a POW Camp”, 1945 (considerably more complicated, because more privileged)
Philosophy
Fiction
Books
Fiction:
Buddha volume 1, Osamu Tezuka (despite being a critical darling, I was deeply unsatisfied by his peculiar revisions of traditional Buddha hagiographies, childish writing and levity and self-indulgence in gimmicks like (stupid and trivial) fourth-wall-breaking, and Disneyfied art. It may be unfair to judge a 14-volume series by volume 1, but I did not finish it with any interest in continuing.)
Film/TV
Live-action:
Animated: