Alex K. Chen

Jimmy Carter's *intense willpower* and his longevity is enough proof that the neuromuscular junction matters for longevity

My posts get high views to likes ratio......

LatchBio Harmonize your Wet and Dry Lab.

3 ppl at latch.bio event approached me just bc i was wearing a neurode stimulator that day...

AI's improved capabilities (eg o3) now allow more ordinary non-experts to get way more out of attending NeurIPS/ICML/etc (the types of people at NeurIPS/ICML also all seem the same - there needs to be more "ideological/background diversity" in the types of people who go)

I'm just going to log every new word I come across on my apple notes so that I can then feed them into an AI and cross-product these words with every new concept I come across....

People who feel betrayed by a core group of friends are at their most vulnerable to trusting AI with everything...

It doesn't really make sense to make your life focus anything other than biology/psychology/neuroscience unless you have all your shit together. Fix your broken brain/body first before you commit to any of the other things

the most important part of going to a networking event is if there is enough space to just cowork with your laptop most of the time (and obvs abundant coffee)

the most impt part of happiness (other than health) is not having ur parents interfering with everything you do all the time

People who know how to ask for "too much" rather than for "too little" will be better at training AIs

maybe when i stop feeling striver-ish and feel patient and at peace w/the world, the world will feel the same towards me and have zero anxiety

one of the most important personality traits of anyone is if they're not easily bothered

(also maybe amphetamine is neurotoxic enough to subtly reduce your agency/ability to get out of bed later in life, so don't use it too often earlier in life?)

i exposed myself to way too much noise in the past by going after way too many ppl on FB and I think it really affected me

I finally feel REALLY functional for once and I didn't even need the TMS... But I already committed to it. Let's see tomorrow..

today i discovered 2.5 cups coffee + earplugs is "good enough" to stim me *enough* [I shall retest tomorrow]

if i'm going to get a browser agent like chatgpt atlas, i'll just log into a separate gmail address to reduce most of the risk

Since AI is going to change so rapidly so quickly, reducing aging rate (including subtle "loss of ability to focus/get out of bed") is still premium because you want to have the maximum agency/ability to "affect change" possible when the pivotal moment finally hits.

[retatrutide >> everything]

but really, high-throughput microscopy like light-sheet microscopy really yields one of the higher ROI..

for all the money and effort put into folding proteins, the ROI of much of the field has been practically 0.

Maybe this will finally change v. quickly

I guess I've now been to every non-microstate country in western europe other than ireland

i really wonder if the harvard phd reductions will be.. more than just temporary....

Even as people post to FB much less than before, how much each individual post.. ends up.. mattering more..

sometimes saying a few random things makes you way more engaging than the average smart/"competent" person they encounter, just dont do it too much

anyone in microplastics there?

chatgpt project folders lag so hard, it makes it impossible for me to organize my convos

[claude doesnt allow u to segregate chats]

when until the real "bay area" is the hangzhou bay area rather than SF bay area?

if you're a joy to be around and don't take too much attention right away (but still know where all the right people are), you can still get enough exposure to **all** the smart ppl to matter

That rationalists/#CFARalums/LessWrong ppl document themselves so thoroughly that AI sees them so well makes it easier to do mass-CBT on them once the time comes.

u can use agents to analyze each of the claims of peter fedichev's papers and it says much of it is still speculation...