title: Links (86)
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publication: Nintil
published: 2025-03-16T00:00:00+00:00
sourceurl: https://nintil.com/links-86/
word_count: 269
Sasha Chapin on Enjoying Things and Being Sasha Chapin Scott Alexander reviews The Body keeps the Score. I recently read the book, which makes claims that will sound familiar and even obvious to many people that have engaged with many forms of therapy, particularly the idea that events that happened in someone's childhood can affect their current mental health. But I learned there that the author of the book had to fight for psychologists to accept this! Seemingly once upon a time the idea was considered obvious (From Freud) and then the field overcorrected in the other direction, making it difficult to accept that indeed trauma is real (a case of scientific flip-flopping ). 50 thoughts on DOGE Inducing torpor in mice to slow down aging Fix the hypothalamus , fix ovarian aging Some speculation about the next few years re progress in AI, and some more bearish speculation on the same topic. Semianalysis on advances in robotics Chapman on how what he does is like and not like philosophy The science of woo The baby boom started before WWII, not after How to test for LLM situational awareness Who is Larry Ellison A socratic dialogue over the utility of DNA foundation models In defense of letting people explore their curiosity in research On the death of IP in biotech. A thesis I've had for biotech for a while A tweet from mine on a concrete way to speed up some aspects of biotech: making the FDA more deterministic The gut health to depression pipeline Fix the brain, fix fertility Interview with the founder of DeepSeek (via Kipply )