Charlie Wang

on the atlas — 44

• Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program | Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/1 savers
• Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline — LessWrong - https://www.lesswrong.com/1 savers
• Lena @ Things Of Interest16 savers
• The Terrible Downside of AI Language Translation - The Atlantic2 savers
• What You Can See Only When You Have Nothing: Living with the Maasai - https://hakkei.substack.com/1 savers
• An Opinionated Guide to Using Anki Correctly — LessWrong7 savers
• prompts/prompts/multi_target_binder_design_prompt.md · Anthropic/claude-protein-binder-design at main - https://huggingface.co/1 savers
• book.bionumbers.org6 savers
• Neuroscience Datasets - https://datasets.neuro2.ai/1 savers
• Don't Build Mindreading — LessWrong7 savers
• Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security · Gwern.net25 savers
• Why I Left Google DeepMind17 savers
• Ultrasound imaging of the brain — Aleph23 savers
• The Illustrated AlphaFold | Elana Simon3 savers
• World-first: therapy to make cells young again trialled in a person - https://www.nature.com/2 savers
• Decoding Emotion from EEG: Introducing NOVA | Alljoined Blog8 savers
• If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you - https://substack.com/1 savers
• Combinatorial protein barcodes enable self-correcting neuron tracing with nanoscale molecular context - PMC - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1 savers
• State of Brain Emulation Report 2025 | Research Overview3 savers
• [1306.5709] Physical Principles for Scalable Neural Recording - https://arxiv.org/1 savers
• Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?11 savers
• How To Be Good | The New Yorker4 savers
• Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog66 savers
• Yan Zhang on status2 savers
• [2604.21691] There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning2 savers
• Practical Cheminformatics Index - Practical Cheminformatics - https://patwalters.github.io/1 savers
• The ML drug discovery startup trying really, really hard to not cheat (Leash Bio)3 savers
• Gardens of the Soul — Laura Deming5 savers
• Developing creative identity16 savers
• Book Summary: Consciousness and the Brain — LessWrong2 savers
• The Levin Lab: Home2 savers
• Longevity FAQ — Laura Deming13 savers
• Cities and Ambition42 savers
• We Need a New Science of Progress - The Atlantic2 savers
• China has invented a whole new way to do innovation1 savers
• Nature's drug database - The Works in Progress Newsletter1 savers
• Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time? - PMC1 savers
• Hammers and Nails — LessWrong1 savers
• The "devalue and dismiss" fallacy, methodological pluralism, and DSGE models - Marginal REVOLUTION1 savers
• Notes on Effective Altruism22 savers
• A Vision of Metascience13 savers
• [REPOST] Epistemic Learned Helplessness | Slate Star Codex13 savers
• The Sacrifices We Choose to Make10 savers
• The value of a life4 savers

highlights — 2

• Don't forget about the gap between how little a life costs and how much a life is worth. For that gap is an account of the darkness in this universe, it is a measure of how very far we have left to go.

  The value of a life

• It can simultaneously be the case that (1) lives are nigh invaluable, and (2) people are being annihilated constantly, against their will, in ways that can be prevented using relatively small sums of money. The universe is not just! Pressing the button for $10 is the way to save the most lives, and this very fact is a horrible thing. Lives are nigh invaluable, but you have to treat them as if they're worth only a few thousand dollars.

  The value of a life