Excited to hear more about Pioneer Labs when they fully come out of stealth in June! 😜🚀🌻

Our latest essay is about terraforming Mars, and what that would take.

By critically examining the scientific challenges, we can begin to build technologies that could actually make us a multi-planetary civilization.

Synthetic biology will be useful.

One of the first projects we took on at Profluent was designing novel gene editing proteins with language models. This grew into an initiative called OpenCRISPR, and today I’m excited to share that work (including the sequences we designed)!

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This story has it all:
- Self-modifying AI
- Quantum mechanical protein design
- Automated genome editing
- Bacteria that extrude carbon nanotubes
- Next-gen chip fabrication

What more could you ask for? An incredible sci-fi short by Richard Ngo for Asimov Press

Fiction is often the best way to visualize possible futures. Here’s my latest story, which explores what it might look like for AIs to design and build advanced nanotechnology.

New Asimov Press story just dropped! 🎉

This one from Richard Ngo imagines (with lots of specificity) an engineered microbe that fabricates the chips used to train AI models.

It's a true ode to 'hard' science fiction.

We have a full-time position available for a writer at Our World in Data!

These three aspects would make this a dream job for me:
• You will be supported by a friendly and very well-functioning team.
• You have a position that asks you to write about a wide range of important

Lessons from Stripe Press

My Saturday was spent in New York at the Future of Publishing conference. I gave a short talk about Asimov Press with Xander Balwit, but was most excited to meet people like Tamara Winter (Stripe Press) and Nick Whitaker (Works in Progress) in person for

I sometimes produce my own dataviz for my blog.

If you go to code.scientificdiscovery.dev, it now goes directly to my GitHub repo to reproduce them.

I also added a little table so you can easily find all the files for a particular chart.

Come write on some sci-fi-inspired prompts with me next Tuesday 4/16 in Boston!

Spots are limited, but ideas and ale will overfloweth.

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