Alex K. Chen

Nov 5, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Abhishaike Mahajan |Alex K. Chen

Note: thank you to Brita Belli, senior communications manager at Recursion, for connecting me to Charles Baker, a VP at Recursion, who led a lot of this work I’ll discuss here + allowed me to interview him about it! I am not affiliated with Recursion in any capacity. One more note: a few people have pointed it out that I got the cell painting invention date wrong. It’s actually 2013 from this paper, and not 2016 from this paper. My bad! A few words here have been updated to account for this.

Oct 30, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Keenan Pepper |Seth Herd |Alex K. Chen

There are two nuclear options for treating depression: Ketamine and TMS; This post is about the latter. TMS stands for . Basically, it fixes depression via magnets, which is about the second or third most magical things that magnets can do. I don’t know a whole lot about the neuroscience - this post isn’t about the how or the why. It’s from the perspective of a patient, and it’s about the what. What is it like to get TMS?

May 19, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Alex K. Chen

Mar 23, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Alex K. Chen

Infrared spectroscopy, HPLC, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and reverse genomics are examples. Figuring out the purity of one's foods/drugs (which is not done enough) can be a Pareto-efficient improvement on the attention economy of (especially those who are "pivotal actors"), and can be a task done by environmental health specialists.

Mar 13, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Alex K. Chen