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Ruxandra Bio
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Ruxandra Bio's personal blog at writingruxandrabio.com covers culture, philosophy and writing. Since 2024, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-07-21
- Autism and the Internet will defeat the Monoculture3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-12
- Ideas matter: How I stopped being a Culture Incel3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-05
- The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-09
- Curing cancer won't redeem AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-01
- The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-09
- Why haven't biologists cured cancer?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-06
- The Road to (Mental) Serfdom and Misinformation Studies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-23
- The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-15
- Is progress in medicine too slow?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-07
What Hacker News says?
> The bottleneck isn't research funding, it's getting past the FDA Incidentally, that's the first point on his proposals to make the industry more healthcare first (slide 15) He also links this https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-bureaucracy-blockin...
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on “Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies”Submitted The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs as a story · 445 points
HN discussionElaborating a bit - brain is hard to study since you can't easily take a biopsy of it (from a living person at least), and various brain scans are not great at identifying the stuff we care about. The slow acting nature of it means also you have to wait a long time to see results of clinical trials; also because early stages are easy to miss that also means you are stuck studying people who are already pretty senile…
Comment linking /p/why-havent-biologists-cured-cancer
on “Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Disease?”Submitted Why haven't biologists cured cancer? as a story · 83 points
HN discussionThis and Sam Harris realising that all his fellow travellers were both evil and stupid is my fave source of schadenfreude at the moment. I think Scott had a subscriber only post a couple of weeks ago that was tiptoeing in the direction of admitting that all his BS concern about woke universities helped get us here but I can now find no trace of it (though I'm not a subscriber so that may be normal). edit found it: h…
Comment linking /p/the-edgelords-were-right-a-response
on “The Populist Right Must Own Tariffs”Submitted The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia as a story · 49 points
HN discussionFor the state of new cancer-killing drugs and bottlenecks getting them approved, see also the top few posts on https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/archive The post on AI and and cures for cancer is https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/a-response-to-dario-amo... .
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on “CRISPR Tech Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including "Undruggable" Cancers”Submitted How to Test More Drugs as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI think it may be Curing cancer won’t redeem AI - by Ruxandra Teslo https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/curing-cancer-wont-rede...
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on “A.I. curing cancer is not enough”Submitted Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSee also this article by a genomics PhD about how intelligence is not the bottleneck in medical research. https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/intelligence-is-not-the...
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on “Amodei Re. Regulation”Submitted Culture over Policy: The birth rate decline as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elites are mostly lazily well-intentioned as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autism and the Internet will defeat the Monoculture as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autism and the Internet will defeat the Monoculture as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manufacturing requirements are killing cell and gene therapy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autoimmune therapies: an inspiration for anti-aging therapies? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extending women's fertility: the last frontier as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autism and the Internet will defeat the Monoculture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autism and the Internet will defeat the Monoculture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ideas matter: How I stopped being a Culture Incel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Curing cancer won't redeem AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intelligence is not the main bottleneck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Revive Biopharma Productivity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What will it take for AI to change drug discovery? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Road to (Mental) Serfdom and Misinformation Studies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I should have been braver – by Ruxandra Teslo as a story · 2 points
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