Stephen Malina

This is my blog. There are many others like it but this one is mine.

Biologizing the stack

I’m experimenting with writing some shorter, less polished posts. These come with the disclaimer that I’m optimizing for getting …

What are continuous glucose monitors good for? More broadly, what are continuous measures of physiology (CxM) good for? Similar to Elliot …

Summary # Gene editing has made a lot of progress over the past few decades. CRISPR-Cas9 sparked the recent fervor and won some of its early …

Introduction # A few months ago, Elliot Hershberg, one of my favorite Substack writers, wrote a post laying out his personal mission. I …

2022 was another exciting, fun year. To round it out, I wrote up some scattered reflections. Enjoy, or if you aren’t a fan of this …

This post was co-authored with Austin Vernon. Summary # While the internet often focuses its furious debate energy on decentralization in …

As a way to keep myself honest, I’m going to be recording GPT4 predictions here and archiving versions of the post so I can’t go …

A friend recently asked me what my “AI timelines” were. Especially with recent progress in image generation, language modeling, …

Since I’ve been going around telling everyone how Top Gun: Maverick (TG:M) is one of the best action movies of our generation, …

Introduction # Generally when someone tells you they’ve invented an “art of mind-using” that involves lots of made-up …

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