Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19

Youyang Gu: I was an untrained data scientist with zero prior experience in infectious diseases, but I became known as an “expert” in COVID-19. Not that I did it alone — my model was a crowdsourced effort, because I received help and advice from countless individuals on social media. Advancements in technology and dismantling barriers to communicat... See more

One of the issues with late twenty century thinking is the mentality that nature is good and disruptions from nature are bad. Nature can be in terms of actual scientific nature but also anything with similar characteristics, such as free markets in financial markets. COVID-19 has really flipped a lot of minds, as it's been undeniable that the defau... See more

"People should be working on matter that matters."

So in the struggle against natural calamities such as AIDS and Ebola, the scales are tipping in humanity’s favour. But what about the dangers inherent in human nature itself? Biotechnology enables us to defeat bacteria and viruses, but it simultaneously turns humans themselves into an unprecedented threat. The same tools that enable doctors to quic

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