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Beyond Networks: The Evolution of Living Systems

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While not technically alive, there's an evil genius to viruses that never ceases to amaze me. It's one reason I became a virologist. A recent Nature paper reveal a remarkable trick SARS-Cov-2 learned that makes it nastier than the first SARS. Both viruses…

Peter Kolchinsky x.com

Importantly, evolution is not about optimization in the abstract; it is about optimization relative to other genetic variants within and across species. While we are evolving, so too are our enemies (like the influenza virus) and our friends (including the microbiomes in our guts). To a large extent, evolution is about preparing for the unknown, be

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

Knowledge exists in inverse proportion to meaning. ~

Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation

The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard

Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures

On the Biology of a Large Language Model

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Algorithms of Mediocrity — william

Dr. Felix S. Grenwood article.app

we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.