Links 4/25
Like many people, I’ve built a Karpathy second brain thing where I fed in a ton of my reading and writing. The autogenerated fully cited syntheses of ideas have been so edifying to read1. The system is helping me write more. As part of this, it makes linkposts out of things I’ve read, which helps reinforce ideas in my mind and hopefully inspire yours! I hope you find these as fun to read as I did.
David Oks on how citations ruined science: Garfield’s 1964 Science Citation Index and Hirsch’s h-index produced sixty years of unscrupulous gaming of the metrics, and AI is just letting the defectors scale. How citations ruined science — David Oks
Psychology textbooks still haven’t corrected the famous-experiments errors they were called out for in 2018, and the more common 2023 fix is to silently omit the topic. Psychology textbooks still misrepresent famous experiments and controversial debates
Doug Muir on Phobos: Mars’s inner moon periodically tears itself apart into a ring and then reassembles, on ~100M-year cycles. Metaphor fodder. Inconstant Moon — Doug Muir
The page on awakening synthesizes 30 different sources! Maybe at some point I’ll publish a few of these if people are interested. I also had AI analyze patterns across my interests — super insightful! It helped me see the connection between my scientific and spiritual work in a new light. It’s definitely worth the time to make one of these.