April 2016 Media Thread

Everything is heritable:

• "Molecular genetic contributions to social deprivation and household income in UK Biobank (n=112,151)", Hill et al 2016 (correlation graph)
• "Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorders and neuropsychiatric variation in the general population", Robinson et al 2016
• "Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs", Psychiatric Genomics Consortium 2013
• "Height, body mass index, and socioeconomic status: Mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank", Tyrrell et al 2016
• "Mutation and Human Exceptionalism: Our Future Genetic Load", Lynch 2016
• "Older fathers' children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations", Arslan et al 2016 (from "The cost of inbreeding in terms of health")
• "Engineering the Perfect Baby"
• "Welcome to the CRISPR Zoo" (roundup of recent & planned CRISPR applications in animals)
• "Genetic variance estimation with imputed variants finds negligible missing heritability for human height and body mass index", Yang et al 2015

Politics/religion:

• "The Dog Thief Killings"
• "How a detachment of U.S. Army soldiers smoked out the original Ku Klux Klan"
• "Legalize It All: How to Win the War on Drugs"

AI:

• "Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering", Xiong et al 2016
• "Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection", Levine et al 2016 (video)
• "Generating images with recurrent adversarial networks", Im et al 2016 (Another nice improvement in the state of the art; getting RNNs working with adversarial training is believed to be pretty tricky.)
• "Deep Exploration via Bootstrapped DQN", Osband et al 2016 (Who'd've thought there was a way to combine bootstrapping and deep q-networks?)
• AlphaGo as AI risk example (Inside View beat Outside View 4-1)

Statistics/meta-science:

• "Underreporting in Psychology Experiments: Evidence From a Study Registry", Franco et al 2015 (previously: Franco et al 2014)
• "Is there a publication bias in behavioral intranasal oxytocin research on humans? Opening the file drawer of one lab", Lane 2016

• how often does correlation=causation?

  • "Comparison of Evidence of Treatment Effects in Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies", Ioannidis et al 2001
  • "Comparison of Effects in Randomized Controlled Trials With Observational Studies in Digestive Surgery", Shikata et al 2006
• "The Scientific Impact of Positive and Negative Phase 3 Cancer Clinical Trials", Unger et al 2016
• "The Stress Test: Rivalries, intrigue, and fraud in the world of stem-cell research"

Psychology/biology:

• "Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind", Hofman 2015 (plenty of room at the top; excerpts)
• "What sparked the Cambrian explosion?"
• "'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance", Marie & Zölitz 2015 (Dutch natural experiment in selective marijuana ban in a university town)
• "Correlation and Causation in the Study of Personality", Lee 2012
• "State-Space of Drug Effects: Results"
• 2016 Nootropics survey results

Technology:

• "Lessons from 30 Years of MINIX"
• Heat pipe
• "The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel"
• "Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea)"

Economics:

• "Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation", Beach et al 2016

Fiction:

• "With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens" (creative hermeneutics)

Fiction:

Story by R.S. Bakker about a boy talking to a hobbled AI. https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/the-dime-spared/

13 perspectives to help see things as they really are, not as we expect them to be

Rupert Murdoch’s Ex-Wife Wendi Deng Is Dating Vladimir Putin

Ferdinand Waldo Demara

Economists Are Warming to Government Intervention

The incentives for individually feminists to be controversial rather than fight the really important battles where they actually exist continues to plague university campuses

Hass avocado Retail Volume & Price Data

Anyone know anything about drug discovery for antidepressants and antianxiolytics? Pharmacology of antidepressants

The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow

Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking Experiment - the answer is yes, posting on facebook makes you less lonely irrespective of whether people actually interact with your content.

How do you evaluate the effectiveness of additional research, effective altruists? Don't reinvent the wheel, we already have a framework for that

Ben Folds Five "DO IT ANYWAY" f. Fraggle Rock AND 6 Mindsets That Will Make You Magnetic AND Game of Thrones: How Power Really Works AND Why Tyrion Can't Be Killed

AI for advertising and shopping overview. Mostly about personal assistants tho...

https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/04/01/how-artificial-intelligence-can-be-used-for-marketing

An economics paper on the incestuous interlinking of the trans-national corporations, with formula to show structures.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728v2

and what it means to the average joe,

http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php/commentary/international-commentary/26284-oligopolies-unmasked-the-death-of-competition

I haven't read the econ paper yet, but with the leak of the Panama Papers, a shell corporation forming law firm, there is going to be some interesting correlating going on...

http://www.zerohedge.com/print/527900

and the source https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/

can you say Lenin ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism

• Reasons to remain single

• Can I recommend all the RSD channels again?

• If a girl can keep it interesting she doesn't have to worry about any other girls - smooth kiss transition move!

{Charisma on Command](https://www.youtube.com/user/charismaoncommand) - best 'pickup' tips channel I've seen. It's not just about pickup and generalises well to politics, business, friendship, etc. I think it's as close as they get to that one of a kind Relationship Science blog.

The Looming Tower is a very well-written history of the people and background of the 9/11 attacks.

I thought this anecdote, that happened at the Kabul zoo in the aftermath of the Taliban's takeover of the city, was poignant:

One zealous, perhaps mad, Taliban jumped into a bear's cage and cut off his nose, reportedly because the animal's "beard" was not long enough. Another fighter, intoxicated by events and his own power, leaped into the lion’s den and cried out, “I am the lion now!” The lion killed him. Another Taliban soldier threw a grenade into the den, blinding the animal. These two, the noseless bear and the blind lion, together with two wolves, were the only animals that survived the Taliban rule.

• Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, Everett 2009 (on the Pirahã people; review)
• Drugs 2.0, Powers (review)
• The Recollections Of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton (review)
• Handbook of Intelligence: Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Current Concepts (review)

(Links are to my GoodReads notes about them)

The related books Superforecasting and Future Babble are about predicting the socio-econo-political future - how people usually fail at it, esp. overconfident pundits - and how it doesn't matter because people forget and they get invited again. The contents align nicely with LW-themes (in terms of instrumental rationality, probabilistic reasoning and recognizing biases etc.), and apply them to read-world prediction making. Some people get quite good at foreseeing events.

Just saw Zootopia. Best movie I've seen so far this year - it's a legit "buddy cop" detective story as well as a satisfying parable about racism and stereotyping. There's even a blink-and-you'll-miss-it Breaking Bad reference. ;)

• The Tale of Princess Kaguya: very beautiful but enigmatic

Dan tes reves

And, the Linkin Park Discography (their earlier stuff)

Clean bandit - rather be

Dragon Age Score - The Party Camp Extended

Melanie Martinez - Carousel - 1 Hour Oh that ting ting ting sound so orgasmic

Anything Melanie Martinez ever made. I'm just like her.

Touhou:

• "Longing of Forest" (ハム; Re*Collection {C89}) [jazz/folk]
• "Doloza (Fires of Hokkai)" (Maurits"禅"Cornelis feat.舞花 & W.nova; Spatial Moving {C89}) [trance]
• "Reawakening ~ ``second'' chance, for the tenth time or so" (the distant journey to you; untitled {C89}) [postrock]
• "音の瓶詰 - 神さびた古戦場 ～ Suwa Foughten Field" (ジャム; 守矢幻燈録 ～ Separation of Spirit {R12}) [classical]
• "死霊の夜桜" (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
• "素敵な墓場で暮らしましょ" (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
• "神社の新しい風" (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
• "佐渡の二ッ岩" (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
• "デザイアドリーム" (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]

Doujin:

• "Magic" (Chroma; Black Magic {C89}) [vocal/Jpop]
• "THE GREAT VOYAGE" (Tenmon; MEMORY OF THE GREEN {C89}) [progressive rock]
• "Sāi-bak-hō (HiRoSYO Remix)" (kamome sano; tatsuta compilation 4 {2015}) [electronic]

Vocaloid

• "Paradox" (Kimkim feat. Miku; MONOPHOBIA {2015}) [electronic]

For anyone who's been interested but who prefers completed works, Homestuck is finally coming to an end on the 13th. If you start reading now you'll probably catch up sometime after it's done. If you haven't heard of it, it's a long and increasingly epic comedy/action/sci-fi/drama web-comic/multimedia-extravaganza with an interesting setting and a huge cast of characters, with a fanbase ranging from hordes of teenage girls to Eliezer Yudkowsky. Definitely not for everyone though. Helps if you can enjoy irreverent humour.

edit: If you do start reading, it may be helpful to know that for the first 3.5 acts Homestuck was designed to resemble an adventure game, and the commands on the bottom of the page (linking to the next page) were submitted by readers, with the resulting panels being created in response to the commands. This leads to a fairly high level of silliness early on. Later it gets a bit more focused.

I think it speaks to the unfortunately(?) low status of videogames in current society that this thread has so many specific sections but none for games. (Not that I have any recommendations to make right this minute). (Obviously we can just put them under "other", but it still seems odd to me. Surely games are more popular than podcasts?)

The Grid, an AI assisted website design platform

https://thegrid.io/

I, for one, really like this section of LW, which has led me to so many interesting reads. It seems there used to be more entries here, is there some other place LW-minded people now put their recommendations?