Laura 🌲 ⛰️

I feel like each year I realize how much I don’t know and how ignorant I am and it’s *awesome*. Like, how exciting is it that you *don’t* already know all there is to learn?

someone once told me that being an entrepeneur is like being a psychological endurance athlete and it was one of the most helpful frameworks I've ever internalized (not apropos of anything happening rn, just felt like sharing)

I don't...buy the ergodic hypothesis in stat mech. Any recs for how to get comfortable (even empirical?) Seems just obviously not something that follows from first principles - unless it's like every system is noisy and that's why? But aren't there attractor trajectories that…

any recs on using AI image / video gen tools for precise scientific illustrations / graphics? would love any examples of this done well also! most of the stuff I'm interested in modeling are general properties of groups of molecules moving around

currently on the conversation menu - philosophy (what form of personal identity does technology want us to take) - how to live a good creative life while building deep tech products that reach patients - how are you??? humans vibing haha - if you understand Galois theory or group…

will be at the transhumanism workshop at @edgeesmeralda this Thursday 5/29, curated by @katherinebaney :) - curious to say hi to some new friends while I'm there, DM if you want to meet up!

Really enjoyed talking to Joe! We focused on things I don't normally speak about publicly (personal identity, humane transhumanism, new thinking latent spaces for scientific discovery) Thanks @JosephNWalker for facilitating a convo that very current - amazing prep :)

draft #41 problems - have any of you tried to 'show' idea that is so incoherent and mysterious (like, it has structure, but it's much larger than you can see), but is also saying something *very particular* - how do you effectively transmit the latter, while retaining room for…

my mom is graduating law school today!!! so excited, love you mom ❤️❤️❤️

I'm curious who this generations PG is (updated for building on accelerated timelines w still operating from high agency) - I feel (in retrospect) so amazed and grateful for the level of thoughtfulness and kindness that his essays had (he wrote a whole essay about why it's safe…

in ~15 years, metastatic melanoma went from a disease with a median 6 month survival time to one where 52% of patients have melanoma-specific survival 10 years out may we all get a chance to work on medical technologies like this - my god! nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

I feel like you can tell how happy I am by the number of book.bionumbers.org tabs open in my browser

I feel like there's a phase of writing about an idea where you are totally in love with it and unable to see its flaws, and then there is a phase where it feels like a long-term partner - you are intimately aware of its flaws, its changed you, deeply, trying to explain it clearly…

I'm thinking of hosting a small workshop / discussion group about the qualia of understanding - what does an epiphany feel like to you? Prob while at LessOnline! Lmk in replies if you'd be interested to come / what are examples of this for you

muttering 'I'm so sorry' to claude as I ask it to revise, like, the 40th draft this essay

random hack but in mild meditative states, when trying to work, stereo panning songs can be really helpful - curious if anyone else has found this / good song recs if so :)

Ditto! Also heard great things from a friend who went last year.