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Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is There a Trade-Off to Having a Polygenic Child?

With ten embryos, you could s a disability adjusted life yer by four. And it does look like people could be near to live much longer than they currently do. But there's this kind of quasi infinite well of variation which evolution or genetic engineers could act on. Why don't we give us life spans that in the bible probably didn't happen? That hasn't been enough time to explore super high dimensional space.

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