Ruxandra Teslo

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom. Click to read Ruxandra's Substack, by Ruxandra Teslo, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

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A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously

The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure

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How early-stage clinical trials became unnecessarily expensive and inefficient—and how we can fix them, inspired by a recent story about a dog treated for cancer.

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck

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Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world