At a recent retreat, I found myself sitting on a cushion facing a wall while my meditation partner sat to my side, outside of my visual field and started reading to me "From You to Infinity", pointing-out instructions from Ken Wilber. The text is quite trippy to read. What happened next was quite intriguing and it was probably the most significant experience of my life thus far so I wanted to write down as much detail as I can remember here so I never forget what happened.
First, I remember my bre…
"The Claude Constitution is a beautiful document. Incomplete and overly verbose in some ways, but in a necessary way", I said on Twitter.
It is beautiful in that it is self-aware, transparent, honest, and embodies these virtues, which are the kinds of virtues it is trying to instill into the model itself.
This, the idea that a text may embody the ideas it tries to convey, I find quite interesting.
Coincidentally a book I recently started reading talks about the very same thing in the context of m…
Since the recent disappointingly small effects of monoclonal antibodies on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) progression, there has been lots of discourse around what the cause of Alzheimer's might be. "If not amyloid then what is it?", many wonder. What is the thing we have to remove? In cancer we remove cancer cells, in treating cardiovascular disease we aim to lower LDL particles and that massively lowers risk.
If not amyloid, what is the LDL of Alzheimer's?
In this post I argue that there is no answer…
Bacteria isolated from japanese tree frogs shown to work better in mice against cancer than doxorubicin or checkpoint inhibitors
CAR-T to treat cardiovascular disease
New proteomics clock, I wrote a brief thread with some commentary
On the (deranged, imho) economics of space-based data centers; Elon likes the idea but he'll be proven wrong on this one:
DSHR's blog, with an observation I had been thinking about for a while but not seen addressed elsewhere: accounting for Kessler syndrome
Scott Manley (1, 2)…
Nasa's orion is flaming garbage
Looks like the AI 2027 report scenario isn't happening and money is running out, fundraising is no longer enough, and large debt raises are now happening. Derek Thompson and Tim Lee on AI bubble discourse.
In what sense is life suffering? (related)
Oakland guy makes klein bottles, stores them under his houses, retrieves them with a custom RC mini forklift
A critique of Nucleus Genomics
The end of progress against extreme poverty: sub-saharan african economies are not growing
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Book Review of Breakneck from Noah Smith, endorsed
On China and rare earths
Rotating detonation engines
Progress in pan-cancer therapy
DOGE and its consequences in the federal government
The AI revolution in radiology that never was
Pictures of the old and new colliding (bonus)
Learning fashion like an engineer
On testosterone measurement
Huel is fine to drink, despite the high lead allegations. Here a trustworthy Huel enjoyer shows his blood tests.
Towards Consciousness Engineering
You can survive on one k…