Alex K. Chen

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Distributed computation | Wealth of weak ties | More "infinite game" than "list of projects" | serial early adopter | interesting things happen around me | poster child for "Why greatness cannot be planned" | Often does not type-check. [my 2026-Quora questions are better than ever] Uniquely broad input flows [eg neurotech, complexity/entropy+sparsity, creativity/generativity, "Daoist AI", "sensing the unsensed", microplastics]. Often only person in intersection between ppl in very dif communities/policy-gradients. Opposite of benchmarked. I like to expand people's imagination of what's possible and dilate out time. I like finding ppl at unique inflection points - a number say meeting me was the most important thing to ever happen in their lives. Wants to be node in global reconfiguration of human incentives towards aligning human actions towards values of future AGI (eudaimonia, minimizing the perfunctory, human/intelligence augmentation, neuroalignment). My original background was in scientific computing on climate science/astrophysics datasets => before I realized longevity/AI/sparsity were more important. I interface especially well with "new"/early-stage (often inspire their co

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