links 12/2/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/12-02-2025

• https://blog.spec.tech/p/beck-brachmans-quest-to-decode-the profile of Beck Brachman of the Imprint project to measure immune repertoire
• https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/12/seb-krier.html Seb Krier on AI
• https://reason.com/2025/12/01/hegseths-alleged-order-to-kill-everybody-complicates-trumps-defense-of-his-murderous-anti-drug-campaign/
  • you cannot just kill people, even if you are the government. if they're criminals, they need to be arrested and charged with a crime. if they are enemy combatants, it's a war crime to kill survivors clinging to a wreck. (I am not a lawyer but the article quotes several.)
• https://www.zo.computer/
• https://aiwatch.issarice.com/ people in the AI safety space
• https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/heiliger-dankgesang Dean Ball on Claude Opus 4.5. [
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document the Claude Opus 4.5 "soul document" is remarkably good.
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12089086/ this is probably nothing (n = 19) but claims creatine improves measures of cognition in Alzheimer's
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Oversteegen
  • "The Oversteegens and Schaft also killed German soldiers, with Freddie being the first of the girls to kill a soldier by shooting him while riding her bicycle. They also lured soldiers to the woods under the pretense of a romantic overture and then killed them.  Oversteegen would approach the soldiers in taverns and bars and ask them to "go for a stroll" in the forest.
• https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-logical-triumph-of-english/ an article about sentence complexity that doesn't look into recursive depth? booo.
• https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-big-nonprofits-post-2025 Zvi Mowshowitz evaluates nonprofits, mostly AI related
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
  • "With duck typing, an object is of a given type if it has all methods and properties required by that type"
    • the main difference from nominative typing seems to be that if you define two types with the same structure, they will be interchangeable.
    • what happens more often -- this property coming in handy, or this property biting you in the butt?
• https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/pdaGN6pQyQarFHXF4/reward-is-not-the-optimization-target "reward" in the RL sense is not the same as things a person subjectively finds "rewarding". Reward is what shapes your strategy; within a strategy, you don't need to be aware of it as a thing and seek out that thing.
• https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-a-government-think-tank-trained after WWII, the RAND corporation hired and trained the first large-scale body of computer programmers, to use SAGE to coordinate radar.

• https://www.owlposting.com/p/bringing-organ-scale-cryopreservation more detail on how Until's cryopreservation works