🔮🔥 New radical empiricism & AI in chemistry, sports, pharmacology & more; fooling AI; crowd wisdom; reducing bovine flatulence++ #165

Every few weeks, I invite an interesting thinker to curate Exponential View. It allows them to share their ideas with us in an intimate setting.

This week, Zavain Dar, a young, bright investor in deep technologies, has stepped up to the plate to introduce us to “New Radical Empiricism”, a form of enquiry enabled by data and machine learning that seems to be an alternate (and fruitful) tool to the scientific method.

Zavain has been a long-time supporter of our mission here, and I’m pleased to present his Exponential View.

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🎹 P.S. EV readers Nadya Peek and Marko Ahtisaari (aka Construction) created a Spotify playlist to enrich your exponential experience every week. This rotation features Brazilian forro, Chicago house, English dream pop, and tracks from their recently released EP.

About Zavain

Hi, I’m Zavain Dar (@zavaindar), a Venture Capitalist at Lux and Lecturer at Stanford University.

I’ve spent my academic and professional career exploring the edges and intersection of Artificial …