AI

Matters Of Scale:

• “Discovering state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms”, Oh et al 2025

• “Baby Shoggoth Is Listening”

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

Recent Evolution:

• “The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2,000 years ago”, de Martino et al 2025 (support for the Egypt theory)

• “Genetic and training adaptations in the Haenyeo divers of Jeju, Korea”, Aguilar-Gómez et al 2025

Engineering:

• “Phase 1 Trial of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Targeting ANGPTL3”, Laffin et al 2025

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “PK Party History”, Houck 1983_43ya (California spoonbending parties in their prime)

Politics/Religion

Psychology/Biology

• “Paying Attention”, Srinivasan 2023 (use of ChatGPT-3 to write social media comments to see how much fame incentivizes activity)

• “The Etiology and Treatment of Childhood”, Smoller 1986

Technology

• “The Gentleman Who Made Google Scholar: Google’s tool for empowering research is 10 years old. Its founder is just beginning”, Steven Levy 2014

• “Superficial auditory (dis)fluency biases higher-level social judgment”, Walter-Terill et al 2025 (invest in better webcameras & microphones & lighting & wired connections)

• “The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech”, Gordon 1984

• “Marble Fountain”, Will Morrison 2025 (evolving a 3D-printed marble run)

Economics

Philosophy

Fiction