Archive - Jakob Schwichtenberg’s Newsletter

January 2025

No one can predict how progress is going to happen

Picbreeder is a website that allows users to “breed” evolutionary art.

Jan 29 •

Jakob Schwichtenberg

The Standard Model of Scientific Progress is Wrong

The scientific method is supposedly this clean process for “acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science since at least the 17th…

Jan 28 •

Jakob Schwichtenberg

Scientific progress is severly understudied

Right now I’m interested in questions like Is scientific progress slowing down? and, if yes, what might be causing it?

Jan 27 •

Jakob Schwichtenberg

Links for January 2025

AI Education: Harvard ran a study comparing physics students who work with an AI tutor against a human-led, active learning classroom and saw extremely…

Jan 26 •

Jakob Schwichtenberg

How scientific writing lost its soul

Whenever I'm reading papers written many decades ago, I'm immediately struck by how different they feel.

Jan 23 •

Jakob Schwichtenberg

Is scientific progress slowing down?

A quantitative analysis

Jan 22 •

Jakob Schwichtenberg

The Trouble with Bryan Johnson

Right now Longevity influencer Bryan Johnson is speedrunning through that famous Eric Hoffer quote:

Jan 20 •

Jakob Schwichtenberg

2024 Wrapped - my favorite movies, books, restaurants, dishes, activties

Here are my favorites from 2024.

Jan 8 •

Jakob Schwichtenberg

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