“The World’s Heaviest People” (”...A contemporary poet has him declare that he aspired to end his days ‘on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, scarcely uttering a word, taking labored breaths, and eating my fill’, for of all the ways a man might die, an excess of luxury was the only truly happy death.”)
which has some more up to date information about what is or is not possible in cryopreservation. As that isn’t linked prominently on LW yet. Here it is.
Short Online Texts Thread
Everything is heritable:
“Uncovering the Hidden Risk Architecture of the Schizophrenias: Confirmation in Three Independent Genome-Wide Association Studies”, Arnedo et al 2014 (press release; excerpts)
“Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method”, Rietveld et al 2014; supplementary information (Rietveld et al 2013 hits replicate some more; discussions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
“Substantial SNP-based heritability estimates for working memory performance”, Vogler et al 2014 (excerpts)
Politics/religion:
“World population stabilization unlikely this century”, Gerland et al 2014 (excerpts)
“Growing Up Sexually in Europe”
“School Desegregation and Black Achievement: an integrative review”, Wortman & Bryant 1985 (publication bias: “The 31 studies found to be acceptable [by our statistical criteria for our meta-analysis] contained only two published articles.”!)
“Going, Going, Gone...” (The dilemma of polio research—amelioration vs cure—as a paradigm for aging.)
Buddhist warrior monks
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
“ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge”, “What I learned from competing against a Convolutional Network on ImageNet” (neural networks near parity with trained humans on ImageNet: “Based on the sample of images I worked on, the GoogLeNet classification error turned out to be 6.8% (the error on the full test set of 100,000 images is 6.7%). My own error in the end turned out to be 5.1%, approximately 1.7% better.”)
“How to critique claims of a “blood test for depression”—Mind the Brain” (summary)
“World values lost in translation”
“At what sample size do correlations stabilize?”, Schönbrodt & Perugini 2013 (excerpts)
“Yes We Canities! A quantitative analysis of the graying of Barack Obama’s hair”
invoking spirits to control coin flips (p<0.05): Bakan 1966
Psychology:
“Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons. We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here’s why.”
“MH’s book review of Deafness, Deprivation, and IQ (Braden 1994)”, “The study of deaf people since Braden (1994)”
“Induction of self awareness in dreams through frontal low current stimulation of gamma activity”, Voss et al 2014 (causing lucid dreaming through tACS)
“Towards Reliable Storage of 56-bit Secrets in Human Memory”, Bonneau & Schechter (tricking website users into memorizing secure passwords via spaced repetition)
“Iodine and the Renaissance: Will history turn full cycle?” (commentary)
Technology:
SMBC: the falling problem
The Codeless Code: Case 96: “Stateless” (can you spot all 3 FP concepts used?)
Economics:
“Dire Warnings by Big Tobacco on E-Smoking” (example of Bootleggers and baptists)
A Second Look at a wooden bench (Joy in the merely real.)
“How much damage can a 6 year-old possibly do? An analysis of the cost of raising a child like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes”
Philosophy:
“The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering”
“On the Pedagogical Motive for Esoteric Writing [in Western Philosophy]”, Melzer 2007; “Appendix: a chronological compilation of testimonial evidence for Esotericism”
Misc:
survival of the flattest: “Viroids: Survivors from the RNA World?”, Flores et al 2014 (excerpts)
Gong farmer
“The World’s Heaviest People” (”...A contemporary poet has him declare that he aspired to end his days ‘on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, scarcely uttering a word, taking labored breaths, and eating my fill’, for of all the ways a man might die, an excess of luxury was the only truly happy death.”)
“How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous Brindley lecture”, Klotz 2005
When reading up on A survey of anti-cryonics writing I tried to follow up on a link and got to the
Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics
which has some more up to date information about what is or is not possible in cryopreservation. As that isn’t linked prominently on LW yet. Here it is.