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They tended to underweight the endogenous response of political and military institutions to the catastrophe—the emergence of second-strike forces, elaborate command systems, crisis management, and above all mutually assured retaliation.
9 September
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the math community needs to adopt a version of the ethical standards of experimental science. If you are using AI agents, you can't just give a proof (formalized or not), but need to also provide a detailed explanation of how these agents were used to get the result.
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From one piece My Frustration With Puzzlebox Television 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Once the entire plot is revealed in shows like this one, it can be a letdown, flattening what has happened previously.
My Frustration With Puzzlebox Televisiondanieldrezner.substack.com
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For them to work, the world-building has to be imaginative and believable, and the characters have to be compelling.
My Frustration With Puzzlebox Televisiondanieldrezner.substack.com
1 September
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Political actors, not scientific staff, are the ones altering official health agency data in this case.Their words
Clearly, scientists aren't updating the data. Politicians are.
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we really do have a good causal model of how to think about fertility decline!
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
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as a product manager, I've spent less time in the last year talking to a data scientist than I ever have in my career, even though I've probably spent 10 times more time in data and understanding actually how the product's working than I have ever have in my career.
30 July
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So we've always told computer scientists from the very beginning that really it's really important to specify what it is, what's the software that you're writing is trying to accomplish before then going and writing it. And so now we actually have agent-based systems that can do the writing, but the importance of specifying what what it is you want has actually gone up because before you'd be handing it off to a very intelligent human who maybe has context or can ask you follow-up questions.
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This work could have been run as a business; open-sourcing it simply puts the tools in more scientists' hands faster.Their words
I mean it's not actually clear that we couldn't run it as a business if we wanted to. I just think that we'll have a bigger impact by getting this in more scientist hands quicker
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A well-functioning contemplative practice should feel like an engaging encounter with mystery rather than a chore.Their words
But it ought to feel good-like an engaging encounter with the mystery of being, not like a chore.
15 April
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And so you just have to first realize that chips exist in China. They manufacture 60% of the world's mainstream chips, maybe more. It's a very large industry for them. They have some of the world's greatest computer scientists.
16 December 2025
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Cahokia JazzTheir words
A hard-boiled mystery set in an alternative 1920s America, by turns familiar and strange.
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Their words
And I love the podcast of the book’s authors Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, “Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000”
2 August 2025
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AI tools are already making scientists more productive and creative, and more discoveries should follow.Their words
AI tools are helping make scientists more productive and creative already, and more discoveries should follow.
AI could help lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.com
31 July 2025
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The Overnight KidnapperTheir words
Mind-candy mystery from a highly reliable author.
23 July 2025
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So picking the right question is the hardest part of science and making the right hypothesis. And that's what today's systems definitely they can't do. So I often say it's harder to come up with a conjecture, a really good conjecture than it is to solve it.
5 June 2025
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While the fact that merely scaling up AI models often results in qualitative leaps in performance may seem empirically mysterious, in retrospect it should be seen as a rational necessity.
5 May 2025
From one piece Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The best scientists I know often ask the simplest questions. First of all, there’s probably some confidence there, but also they’re never going to lie to themselves that they understand something that they don’t understand.
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Absolutely. The world flocked here. And that won’t be the case if we no longer have intellectual freedom.
16 October 2024
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The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, YDIH for short, is not a lunatic fringe theory as its opponents often attempt to write it off. It’s the work of more than 60 major scientists working across many different disciplines, including archeology and including oceanography as well.
30 September 2024
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Responsible scientists try to disprove their own theories, and archaeology keeps stepping out of that box.Their words
And as responsible scientists, we’re trying to disprove our theories. We are not supposed to be trying to prove our theories. That’s one more foot out of the science box that archeology often steps.
22 April 2024
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I think that Nobel Prize has enormous problems. I think it’s probably a net good for the world because it brings attention to good science. I think it’s probably a net negative for science because it makes people want to win the Nobel Prize.
31 December 2023
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Dark CountryTheir words
Mind candy horror/mystery, stalking and being stalked by the somewhat-supernatural serial killer, with extensive local color for contemporary South Africa. There are rough patches, but it's a perfectly enjoyable specimen of this type of novel. It's obviously the set-up for a series, and I'm not sure I need to follow these characters, but I would be happy to read more by Snyman.
19 December 2023
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Creativity in ScienceTheir words
This book surveys theories of creativity, contrasting four competing explanations: expertise, genius, society, and chance, in offering a model for how creativity works. Simonton's work provides a nice hybrid between the purely anecdotal work of biographers and the data-driven work of experimental scientists.
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Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and BeingTheir words
the Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us
21 November 2023
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Palm Beach FinlandTheir words
Mind candy: black comedy crime fiction / murder mystery, in rural Finland. I enjoyed both the comic darkness and the convincing happy endings all around. (At least, happy by the characters' own lights...) My first Tuomainen, but I'd read more if they crossed my path and I was in the right mood.
29 August 2023
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Just as in the sciences it is considered good practice to make one’s data available, in history it should perhaps be a requirement to upload to some public repository the photographs or transcriptions of any cited archival sources that are not otherwise freely accessible online.
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28 May 2023
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Widespread meat-eating in the 19th century became possible only through the colonisation and clearance of Australia and the Americas
13 December 2022
From one piece The rise and fall of peer review 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Scientists have run studies where they deliberately add errors to papers, send them out to reviewers, and simply count how many errors the reviewers catch. Reviewers are pretty awful at this.
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Scientists say they take peer review seriously, but what they actually do shows they do not think it matters.Their words
If you look at what scientists actually do, it’s clear they don’t think peer review really matters.
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Making peer review harsher would also exacerbate the worst problem of all: just knowing that your ideas won’t count for anything unless peer reviewers like them makes you worse at thinking.
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The invention of peer review may have even encouraged bad research.
7 September 2022
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The Cambrian explosion is no longer much of a mystery; the big mystery left in biology is consciousness.Their words
I don’t think there’s a big mystery. There’s lots of details that need to be filled in. The big mystery in biology is consciousness.
9 August 2022
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But the researchers who have investigated this find that scientists do the same thing. They have something that's called knowledge shields, the way all of us do, that that a a a variety of techniques for explaining away inconvenient data and anomalies. But what we're effectively doing is we're holding on to our story.
6 June 2022
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With each rule and added complexity you make the system less human and less fun. You make it a Computer Scientists rube goldberg machine while sterilizing it of all the joy of life.
29 May 2022
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I’ve noticed that, instead of treating them like other kinds of conflicts—where you put your hands up and admit to them but then do your best to make sure they don’t influence your science—scientists sometimes revel in political conflicts.
Science is political - and that's a bad thingsciencefictions.org
10 February 2022
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It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.
8 January 2021
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This is a fortunate conclusion, because it means that it's possible to use bibliometrics to select a candidate set of sufficiently good scientists, and then use human reviewers to select among them.
1 January 2021
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23 February 2020
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In any case, I think we need to not only look at the incentives facing scientists, but also those facing department heads, journals, and grant-making agencies.
15 August 2019
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Short-termism and a lack of funding for young scientists are smaller problems in academia than outsiders assume.Their words
Parts that seem to be less of a problem than I initially thought: short-termism; lack of funding for young scientists.
28 May 2019
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's WorldTheir words
Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World: When it comes to climate change, there are many possible futures. At one end, things get irreversibly worse; at the opposite end, technology “solves” climate change just like any engineering problem. This book looks at that intellectual clash between environmentalists on the one side and the techno-optimists on the other by telling the history of two little-known twentieth-century scientists.
9 August 2018
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsTheir words
But this book is very useful for somebody like me, with experience in high-level engineering languages, like VBA, PHP and R. They're incredibly useful languages, but ones that computer scientists generally disdain, because they're not theoretically pure or beautiful. This book shows you how languages can be constructed. The most valuable thing it gives you is confidence and knowledge to go and create your own programming language.
1 October 2016
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