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Long-form writing on molecular biology, aging, evolution, and the incentives around science.
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- Why don't transplants from the elderly turn into cancer bombs?
- How sprinkler fallacy trips up engineers in biology
- Would pharma whistleblower bounties help or hurt the war on aging?
- Clonal governance
- Why does DNA Damage Response damage DNA
- Why doesn't liver age faster?
- Biologist learns control theory
- Types of scientific explanations
- Memes
- When to not cure aging
- Trivia
- Immortality has a PR problem
- Defensive sabotage looks like friendly fire
- Measuring somatic mosaicism and genomic instability
- Mitosis vetoes
- Repurposed for altruism
- Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality: much more than you wanted to know
- Why would fish cells die when fish dies?
- Multipolar traps in multicellularity
- Dunking on medawar selection shadow
- Why would cancer cure Alzheimer's?
- The first sacrifice
- Types of explanations in biology
- How come theres 1 smell per neuron
- 10 intuitions on tissue architecture
- Submarine analogy
- Somatic Engineering Manifesto
- Incentive design for animal lifespan prizes
- What is an agent
- Taxonomy of AI footguns for non-coders
- Recommendations
- Vigilance glossary
- Criticism of Dwarkesh Podcast - Jacob Kimmel Interview
- One-Hit Cancer
- The Price of Not Being Cancer