Ash Jogalekar

Will take me a while to digest all the points made in this expansive essay, but really excellent work, Michael.

Article on some very interesting work done by my friend Dan Rokhsar at Berkeley on comb jellies as early evolutionary ancestors

Sydney Brenner is one of the very few biologists who appreciated that von Neumann's influence on biology was greater than Schrödinger's; he was right, Schrödinger was wrong. Everyone should read von Neumann's 1948 "General and Logical Theory of Automata."

Marvelous book

A very good piece pointing out the need and importance for more humanists and "tech intellectuals" in the tech industry. Especially with the advent of AI which directly impacts our social and political systems, this need will be critical

Have you read David Kaiser's discussion of Freeman's climate change views in the preface of this collection that a few of us contributed to? Nuanced and level-headed and highly recommended (and broadly consonant with what you say)