Links

Everything is heritable:

• “Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?”, Alford et al 2005 (excerpts)
• “Paternal Antisocial Behavior and Sons’ Cognitive Ability: A Population-Based Quasiexperimental Study”, Latvala et al 2014 (excerpts)
• “Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication”, Carneiro et al 2014 (the power of selection—complex behaviors influenced by many small changes; excerpts)

Politics/religion:

• “Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell”
• “The Credibility Paradox: Violence as a Double-Edged Sword in International Politics”, Abrahms 2013 (excerpts; Why does terrorism so rarely succeed in policy goals compared to guerrilla warfare, and trigger backfire effects? Because use of terrorist tactics triggers the horns effect; given the same hypothetical, they are perceived as fundamentally hateful, unable to keep negotiated commitments, & intrinsically preferring violence.)
• “Blonde cargoes: Finnish children in the slave markets of medieval Crimea”
• “New poll finds majority of Americans believe torture justified after 9/11 attacks”
• “Jihadi Radicalization of Muslim Clerics”, Nielsen 2012 (excerpts)

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “Framing For Light Instead Of Heat” (What do we mean by ‘controlling’ in statistics and is it what we think it means?)
• “Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation”, Allcott 2014 (on one reason programs ‘fade out’; of particular concern in effective altruism; excerpts)
• “Probable Points and Credible Intervals, Part 2: Decision Theory” (Bayesian search theory/optimization)
• “Bayes’ rule in Haskell, or why drug tests don’t work”
• “Kalkalash! Pinpointing the Moments The Simpsons became less Cromulent”

Psychology/biology:

• “Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain”, Kotrschal et al 2013 (excerpts; fascinating little experiment—it’s odd the males showed no intelligence gain, and selecting on volume isn’t exactly what you want to select on, but I’d love to see what a larger experiment ran for more generations showed.)
• “Clinical outcome of preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing”, Tan et al 2014 (excerpts)
• Alexander Shulgin obituary
• “Wireheading: Towards a Consumer Market?” (excerpts)
• “Secrets of the Magus: Ricky Jay does closeup magic that flouts reality”

Technology:

• “Bitcoin and Me”, Hal Finney
• “Programming Sucks”
• “The explosion of No. 5 Blast Furnace, Corus UK Ltd, Port Talbot”, 2001 (excerpts)
• “The Darkhotel APT: A Story of Unusual Hospitality” (cyberwarfare)
• “Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress”, Nagy et al 2013
• “Found on the Web, With DNA: a Boy’s Father”
• “Tokyo Polytechnic University Publishes Results of VOCALOID Study”
• A Linux audio tweak to compensate for hearing loss

Economics:

• “A colourful history of progress” (the Industrial Revolution, synthetic dyes, and the environment)
• “Forget It!”, Isaac Asimov (on the benefits of standardization, illustrated by an old practical mathematics textbook.)
• “Study of Men’s Falling Income Cites Single Parents” (2013)o
• “Redistributing from Capitalists to Workers: The Chamley-Judd Impossibility Theorem”
• “Net benefits: How to quantify the gains that the internet has brought to consumers”
• “Beware of the survivorship bias: Investors may have developed too rosy a view of equity returns”

Philosophy:

• “A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop” (humor)

Books

Nonfiction:

• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (see Yvain)
• Spam Nation (review)

Fiction:

• The Fractal Prince & The Causal Angel
• The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq (review)

Film/TV

Anime:

• Hozuki no Reitetsu
• Futakoi Alternative (review)

Music

Misc:

• “COME SWEET DEATH,SECOND IMPACT” (Shiro Sagisu feat. Megumi Hayashibara; The world EVAngelion JAZZ night =The Tokyo III Jazz club= {2014}) [jazz]

Touhou:

• “Extend Ash ~ Hourai Victim” (Studio A’; BorderLine {C68}) [instrumental rock]
• “Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17” (樋口秀樹; BorderLine {C68}) [instrumental]

Doujin:

• “きつねうどん (Kitsune Udon)” (marasy; Kitsune no Nikkichou {C84}) [classical]
• “狐の日記帖” (marasy; Kitsune no Nikkichou {C84}) [classical]

Kantai Collection:

• “Happy Wedding” (BubbleRecords; SUMMER AIRCRAFT {C86}) [classical/electronic]
• “Goodbye Admiral” (BubbleRecords; SUMMER AIRCRAFT {C86}) [trance]

Vocaloid:

• “Sadness” (Miku? hitsuji; にこにこ {2009}) [progressive rock]
• “アマツキツネ (Amatsu Kitsune)” (marasy; Kitsune no Nikkichou {C84}) [classical]
• “天照ラセ (Amaterase)” (marasy; Kitsune no Nikkichou {C84}) [classical]
• “Helianthus” (Gumi; PlantyP; Silent Paradiso -EXTEND- {2013}) [trance]
• “Clarity (Planty Arrange)” (IA; PlantyP; Silent Paradiso -EXTEND- {2013}) [vocal]