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Despite the proliferation of GWAS, the associations found so far have largely failed to account for the known effects of genes on complex disease. Standard approaches also struggle to find combinations of multiple genes that…

Anders Sandberg recently published his “Top 5” list of existential risks that humanity should be working to reduce: Nuclear War Bioengineered pandemic Superintelligence Nanotechnology Unknown unknowns Notable exclusions include climate change and asteroid impacts….

I’m a big fan of new online medical services like First Derm. Instead of trying to schedule a doctors appointment when you have a skin problem, you just snap a photo with your iPhone…

Hopefully we’ve already found all the drugs we’ll ever need. Because given the impossible costs of funding FDA trials for new drugs, researchers are now mostly just pouring effort into finding new uses for…

Pretty much what I expect from the average YouTube tutorial these days.

Most attempts at regulatory policy for emerging technology are pretty bad. Which is a shame, since there are a few extremely dangerous research fields that could use better regulation. For example, a group of…

Sleep hacking isn’t all one thing. So I recommend a kitchen-sink approach to anyone struggling to get as much sleep as they would like. I’ve pointed out before that magnesium and darkness tend to help me. Greatist…

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As a mathamatician, I’m glad to see folks like Andrew Lih at Edge.org agreeing with me that calculus isn’t that important. It’s easily the least applicable technical prereq distracting people from mastering the most…

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Google is granting $3.5MM to 10 Bay Area charities. But they’re using public voting to determine which 4 charities receive $500,000 instead of $250,000. If you want to help move $1MM from less effective…

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Sweet visualization of what a day’s worth of Google searches from around the world looks like.

Want to make history by finding the final 6 primes required to settle the Sierpinski Problem? Now there’s a new version of the SB client (v27.9) available to help with that. Download it and…

Want academic credit for releasing your code? Now there’s an easy way to add DOIs to your github releases… which bridges a huge gap in credibility and durability for garnering citations. I’m glad to…

In 1985, the FDA instituted lifetime bans on gay men donating blood. This regulation was created entirely to prevent the spread of HIV. And over the years, the agency has stood by its decision…

Between 2000 and 2013, a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1 to 600…

MIRI recently released a working paper jointly written by Benja Fallenstein and Nate Soares. It highlights several self-referential paradoxes that self-modifying AGIs could run into. These issues exist even for future AGIs that use…