Tessa

Karma: 2,763

Let’s make nice things with biology. Working on biosecurity at iGEM. Also into lab automation, event production, donating to global health. From Toronto, lived in Paris, currently in the SF Bay. Website: tessa.fyi

Biosecurity Happy Hour—EAG Bay Area 2023

Tessa23 Feb 2023 0:03 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

List of Lists of Concrete Biosecurity Project Ideas

Tessa16 Jul 2022 15:57 UTC

208 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

Aiming for the minimum of self-care is dangerous

Tessa9 Dec 2021 21:27 UTC

221 points

32 comments6 min readEA link

Examples of Successful Selective Disclosure in the Life Sciences

Tessa19 Aug 2021 18:38 UTC

51 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Tessa’s Quick takes

Tessa30 May 2021 3:41 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Retrospective on Catalyst, a 100-person biosecurity summit

Tessa26 May 2021 13:10 UTC

65 points

11 comments19 min readEA link

A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading+ List

Tessa14 Mar 2021 2:30 UTC

135 points

13 comments12 min readEA link

How to run a high-energy reading group

Tessa1 Mar 2021 2:38 UTC

145 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What are your top papers of the 2010s?

Tessa22 Oct 2019 22:08 UTC

25 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Evidence Action – We’re Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration Program: Here’s Why

Tessa16 Jun 2019 16:42 UTC

10 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

(www.evidenceaction.org)

Will splashy philanthropy cause the biosecurity field to focus on the wrong risks?

Tessa30 Apr 2019 16:03 UTC

45 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

(thebulletin.org)

Scott Alexander – Axiology, Morality, Law

Tessa28 Aug 2016 15:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Minding Our Way – Dive In

Tessa13 Jun 2016 14:52 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Minding Our Way – Deliberate Once

Tessa23 May 2016 13:47 UTC

16 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Minding Our Way – Conviction without self-deception

Tessa8 May 2016 13:56 UTC

9 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Scott Alexander – Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable

Tessa19 Dec 2014 16:02 UTC

41 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Carl Shulman – How migration liberalization might eliminate most absolute poverty

Tessa27 May 2014 19:50 UTC

9 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Paul Christiano – Machine intelligence and capital accumulation

Tessa15 May 2014 0:10 UTC

21 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(rationalaltruist.com)

Carl Shulman – What portion of a boost to global GDP goes to the poor?

Tessa24 Jan 2014 1:15 UTC

24 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Brian Tomasik – Reasons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems

Tessa17 Jan 2014 0:28 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(longtermrisk.org)