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Planning your itinerary Find everyone in your extended network who lives in China, and ask them for intros to the types of people you want to meet on your trip.

Context: I recently spent 2.5 weeks in China visiting universities, research institutes, clinical sites, companies of all sizes, and investors.

None of the following is medical advice or particularly scientific.

In rough chronological order Humans seem to have reached Europe, Australia, India, and China all before they reached non-Mahgreb West Africa.

For the rare person who is searching for it: here is a scanned copy of the out-of-print Exploring the Mind-Brain Relationship, by Dr.

In the tradition of Cell Biology by the Numbers, Physiology by Numbers, and Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know, here’s a collection of numbers worth knowing if you’re working in neurotechnology.

This is a list of things you’re allowed to do that you thought you weren’t, or didn’t even know you could.

Cause Area: Differential Neurotechnology Development

Thanks to AJ Kourabi for research assistance.

Unfortunately, from a PR standpoint, neurotechnology doesn’t have a single, intuitive goal like climate tech, longevity research, or to a lesser extent artificial intelligence.

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Key Lessons: Dedicating IP to the public domain doesn’t necessarily yield more public benefit than patenting Clinical trials for depression are hard to run Treating depression with magnetic fields sounds, to most people first hearing about it, about as le…

Key Lessons: Similar technologies with different names can elicit wildly different cultural and regulatory reactions The number of papers published on a technology, or the age of its field of study, or their number of citations therein, tells you almost n…

Key Lessons: Technological arbitrage.

A collection of market failures1 in science.2 If I’m missing your favorite market failure, please let me know.

When should you enforce standards by requiring permission, and when should you enforce them by punishment?

Concrete Problems in Human Safety

I spend a lot of time deflating people’s dreams that machine learning can help them with their problem.

Unlike human beings, the debate over the question “should people live forever, if they want?”

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If antinatalists are right that having children is wrong, does it matter once the antinatalists go extinct?

TL;DR: AI is useful for a real-world task only if the cost for the AI to do the thing and for you to check its work is less than the existing solution.

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You Can’t Build a New Machine Learning Product with Old DevOps

I’d like to build (maybe with you!)

Face-to-face interaction is by far the most valuable part of a conference, so: Don’t attend any talk that’s being recorded.

Written tractatus style: a sublist justifies the point immediately above it.