Social scientists do no better than the wisdom of the crowd or simple methods like random walks at forecasting social changes.
Adversarial examples in knitted clothes so AI thinks you’re a giraffe.
1966 paper from Richard Levins about robust and fragile models (full text here). About biology, but should also be applied to sociology and world-modelling in general.
Against sending humans to Mars. I think he understates the case that humans might escape existential risks by spreading to other planets.
Robin Hanson: have elites replaced experts?
Boutyline et al use a 100,000-words English dataset to measure gender stereotypes. High intelligence is associated with men, but so is low intelligence.
Does money really make you happier? Maybe you’ve heard conflicting results from different studies. Now the conflicting teams put together an adversarial collaboration and found that it was, of course, a distribution shape problem (see also my post).
Wholesale wikipedias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_and_haircut_laws_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemoaffinity_hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axomamma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalaikoothal
Music
The legendary 1970s Czechoslovakian band Plastic People of the Universe plays with the Brno Philharmonic:
Have a happy spring!
My take has usually been that money doesn't make you happy, but a lack of it can make you miserable.