No Pun Included is not only one of the best board game review channels - they also produce highlights like this video where they look at the "fact" that the funnest part of board games is opening the box. By reading academic papers! And the original author responds in the comments. Great work!

A recipe for pain-free(?) academic writing gmarkkula.github.io/writing-reci... I’m a big fan of “top-down iterative writing”, for all kinds of academic texts. This is my take on why it works and one way to do it, in a series of (individually pain-minimised) steps from blank screen to submission 🧪

I’m thrilled to share new work arguing that the research community should stop treating AGI as a North-Star goal! Debates about AGI miss the forest for the trees. 🧵