AI

Matters Of Scale:

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “A genome-wide investigation into the underlying genetic architecture of personality traits and overlap with psychopathology”, Gupta et al 2024; “Robust inference and widespread genetic correlates from a large-scale genetic association study of human personality”, Schwaba et al 2025 (common additive SNPs for personality don’t seem too important—even after accounting for measurement error)

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “The Himalayan Fossil Hoax is one of the largest and most infamous palaeontological frauds, one man damaging the entire scientific reputation of India by faking decades of work. The perpetrator eventually resorted to making death threats and allegedly even hitjobs against those who exposed him”

• “Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning? After a newborn died of opioid poisoning, a new branch of pediatrics came into being. But the evidence doesn’t add up.”

Politics/Religion

• “The End of Children: Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?” (South Korea—still not going well)

• “Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit” (hoaxster used LLM+imagegen to generate fake expose, design doc, company badge, and pressured multiple journalists to publish the scoop without checking)

Psychology/Biology

• “The Dilbert Afterlife: 68 years of highly defective people”, Scott Alexander (Scott Adams obituary)

Technology

Economics

Philosophy

• “LLM poetry and the ‘greatness’ question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor”, Hollis Robbins; “From Whitman to Instagram with Claude” (satirizing Rupi Kaur with SVG poem-illustrations)

Fiction