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PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at Columbia University, working in the Laboratory for Neural Engineering and Control.
I research invasive neuromodulation and chronic stress resilience in mouse models. My toolkit: wet laboratory automation, agent deployment, stereotaxic surgery, AAV injections, chemogenetics, optogenetics, fiber photometry, snRNA-seq, behavior tracking.
I write for Palladium Magazine about biology, technology, and civilization. I'm interested in how biomedical engineering can reshape not just individual lives but the trajectory of human societies.
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Increasing control and wisdom at the human biological species, human civilization, and planetary scales.
// themes
- Building and maintaining functional institutions of live players
- Human hibernation for deep space travel and longevity
- Cybernetics
- How technological, geopolitical, economic, and memetic developments alter the trajectory of progress
Currently researching the neuroscience of learned helplessness and navigating academic bureaucracy as a PhD student @ Columbia.
// thinkers
- Plato — the just polis, platonic forms, philosopher-kings
- Hobbes — state of nature
- Locke — natural rights
- de Tocqueville — tyranny of the majority
- Ibn Khaldun — عصبيّة (asabiyyah / social cohesion)
- Nietzsche — will to power
- Nash — Nash equilibrium
- Singer — preference utilitarianism
- Rawls — veil of ignorance / original position
// books
Culture series — Banks Ender's Game — Card Atlas Shrugged — Rand Remembrance of Earth's Past — Liu Dune — Herbert Jurassic Park — Crichton Diaspora — Egan Parable of the Sower — Butler The Windup Girl — Bacigalupi Incerto series — Taleb Great Founder Theory — Burja Neuromancer — Gibson Foundation series — Asimov A Map That Reflects the Territory — LW The Heart of a Cheetah — Wade Boom — Hobart & Huber Xenosystems — Land Gray Mirror — Yarvin Palladium Magazine
// companies & people
Colossal Biosciences / Ben Lamm / George Church Orchid / Noor Siddiqui We Build Life / Josie Zayner He Jiankui Cradle / Laura Deming Science Corporation / Max Hodak SpaceX / Tesla Neuralink / Synchron / OpenBCI
// music & film
Grimes· Passion Pit· The 1975· Purity Ring· M83· Virtual Self / Porter Robinson· Puppet· KKB· Lane 8· Gattaca (1997)· Planet Earth (2006)· Oppenheimer (2023)
// follows
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