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Long-form writing on molecular biology, aging, evolution, and the incentives around science.

3 published34 working drafts

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3 finished pieces

  1. AI doesn't know who the oldest mouse is
  2. Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes
  3. I made Geneguessr

Working drafts

Public works in progress. These may contain gaps, rough edges, and conclusions that change.

  1. How sprinkler fallacy trips up engineers in biology
  2. Would pharma whistleblower bounties help or hurt the war on aging?
  3. Clonal governance
  4. Why does DNA Damage Response damage DNA
  5. Why doesn't liver age faster?
  6. Biologist learns control theory
  7. Types of scientific explanations
  8. Memes
  9. When to not cure aging
  10. Trivia
  11. Immortality has a PR problem
  12. Defensive sabotage is not friendly fire
  13. Measuring somatic mosaicism and genomic instability
  14. Mitosis vetoes
  15. Repurposed for altruism
  16. Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality: much more than you wanted to know
  17. Why would fish cells die when fish dies?
  18. Multipolar traps in multicellularity
  19. Dunking on medawar selection shadow
  20. Why would cancer cure Alzheimer's?
  21. The first sacrifice
  22. Types of explanations in biology
  23. How come theres 1 smell per neuron
  24. 10 intuitions on tissue architecture
  25. Submarine analogy
  26. Somatic Engineering Manifesto
  27. Incentive design for animal lifespan prizes
  28. What is an agent
  29. Taxonomy of AI footguns for non-coders
  30. Recommendations
  31. Vigilance glossary
  32. Criticism of Dwarkesh Podcast - Jacob Kimmel Interview
  33. One-Hit Cancer
  34. The Price of Not Being Cancer