December 2025 News
December 2025 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
December 2025’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, November 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
Github popups?
video games as art
Links
AI
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
“Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games”, 1988
“Debunking When Prophecy Fails”, 2025; “Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?” (Oliver Sacks’s case studies were heavily fictionalized); “‘I wish this guy hadn’t written this book’” (Joseph Mitchell, famed New Yorker writer, falsified some nonfiction profiles)
Psychology/Biology
Technology
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
“Postcard From 1952”, Explosions in The Sky (201213ya)
Books
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
Animated: