Neutrality
Aemula Writer Spotlight - 11.14.24
“Everything unexamined, sooner or later, gets questioned, disputed, messed with. To hope to avoid this is to seek to impose stupidity on the world.”
— Sarah Constantin
This week, our spotlight focuses on one writer, Sarah Constantin, and her blog, Rough Diamonds, which covers a wide array of compelling topics in science and technological innovation. This week’s article from Rough Diamonds, “Neutrality”, aligns closely with many of the core principles behind our mission with Aemula. Rather than expanding on those concepts here, we encourage you to explore the thoughtful insights Sarah offers in “Neutrality”, as well as throughout Rough Diamonds.
Rough Diamonds
Written by Sarah Constantin, a math PhD and science and technology writer with a background in AI and machine learning, who has previously worked with organizations such as Nanotronics, Recursion, and Palantir.
“This is a blog about, primarily, science and tech innovation.
I’m mainly focused on analyzing promising, underrated opportunities — potentially awesome stuff we could do, that looks tractable but hasn’t been fully explored yet.
Stuff like ultrasound for human neuroenhancement, wearable hormone sensors, making industrial cell culture way more efficient, compressed air energy storage, and more.
I talk here about my philosophy for the blog:
The thing I’m trying to do with this newsletter is something less like science journalism and more like “techno-economic analysis” or “scientific due diligence.”
How well does the tech work?
How close is it to being cost-effective?
How does it compare to other technologies that aim to do the same thing?
Plus a bit of “explainer”-style information:
How does the tech work?
Who is working on it?
How much traction does it have so far?
Mostly, science news articles don’t have this information, or have it at a pretty superficial level.”
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