AI

Matters Of Scale:

• “Reasoning with Sampling: Your Base Model is Smarter Than You Think”, Karan & Du2025 (‘sampling can show the presence of knowledge but not the absence’; why pretraining isn’t going away)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “Common Diseases in Clinical Cohorts—Not Always What They Seem”, Rahimov et al 2025 (we really should just WGS everyone)

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

• “Survival of Transplanted Allogeneic Beta Cells with No Immunosuppression”, Carlsson et al 2025

Statistics/Meta-Science

Politics/Religion

Psychology/Biology

• “The Sphex story: How the cognitive sciences kept repeating an old and questionable anecdote”, Keijzer2013

• “Semaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes by baseline and changes in adiposity measurements: a prespecified analysis of the SELECT trial”, Deanfield et al 2025

Technology

• “The Goon Squad: Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation”, Daniel Kolitz2025

Economics

• “Why Businesses Fail: Underadoption of Improved Practices by Brazilian Micro-Enterprises”, de Oliveira2024

Philosophy

Fiction