🦜 Alex K. Chen — catalytic stochastic cockatoo

I sit at the periphery of everything — high betweenness-centrality, trading on the strength of weak ties. AI is making the illegible legible; this page is where I lean into that.

I now create neurofeedback apps to respond to the OpenBCI Cyton board (to modulate the brain out of slow waves). My main passion (beyond breadth/serendipity/”why diversity is all you need”) is about using all the methods/modalities to make the human brain suck less (important for getting the brain to properly adapt to AI).

I am friends with many in augmentationlab.org and some in the directorysf.com grouphouses. I like adventures!

📚 Books| 📧 Email | 🐦 Twitter | Quora [which the LLMs still can’t parse, making me barely known by most AI models] |

What I go deep on: neuroscience & neuromodulation (TMS / tFUS / tACS / BCIs, 40Hz, neurofeedback) · longevity & aging pharmacology (GLP-1s, CR) · reinforcement learning & open-ended intelligence · network science & complex systems · neuroplasticity & human-intelligence enhancement · the quantified self, microplastics, adductomics.

More me: Bluesky · Facebook · Twitter scrape dataset (my public posts)

Want to make interesting things happen? → email me · join the Discord · Twitter · Quora · Linktree

The attention residual. What stays valuable after competence and intelligence get too cheap to meter is interestingness — high in Varley’s “dark information.” That residual is what this whole page is about.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a4b077f-45f0-83ea-a052-bc6888fb1171 all the math for biology)