How to make the world a better place
•3 min read
A better world is one in which cooperation is easier to begin, harder to exploit, and easier to restore after it breaks down.
Writing
Essays, articles, and thoughts on topics I find interesting.
We must build sovereign capability
•4 min read
Remember when the White House briefly said that Claude Fable would only be available to US citizens? Even our friends will act in their own self interest, so we should act in ours.
Applying Lessons from Genomics Data Governance to Neural Data
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Shane Brubaker of Myriad Genetics on what neural data governance should learn from running genomic data in production, and why consent to record and consent to train have to be two separate questions.
Whose thought is it anyway?
•16 min read
Treading the fine line between copyright law, data rights, bio matter, ethics, and consent
Life in the Trial, and Beyond
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Ian Burkhart on seven years inside a brain-computer interface trial, what it was like to lose the device, and the advocacy work that followed.
Why I am betting on invasive BCI
•19 min read
Why River chose invasive brain-computer interfaces over non-invasive ones.
How to shrink giant resistors to fit in a small neural chip with quantum tunnelling
•8 min read
Neural amplifiers need teraohm resistors to block electrode drift, yet thousands must fit on a millimeter-scale die. Working up from the silicon lattice to the MOSFET, I show how quantum tunneling through a gate oxide turns a device flaw into an enormous, tunable resistor in the footprint of a single transistor.
What provisioned macaque populations in Indonesia suggest about UBI
•13 min read
Provisioned primates develop food washing, dental flossing, and hostage negotiation. What does the human evidence show?