Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write to learn, mostly about biotech.| Alex’s blog
Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write to learn, mostly about biotech.| Alex’s blog
Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write to learn, mostly about biotech.| Alex’s blog
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All data is the result of some selection process. The first order manifestation of this is bias: a failure to select a representative sample of the real underlying thing the data is describing. But selection operates at multiple hierarchies. For something to exist such that data can be collected about it, that something must have been created instead of some other thing — it must have survived a selection process. Because of this, any dataset includes latent information about the traits tha...| Alex’s blog
This essay was the runner-up in the Homeworld Ideas writing contest. To read it on the Homeworld website, click here.| Alex’s blog
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Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write to learn, mostly about biotech.| Alex’s blog