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

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Is It Possible to Turn Sperm Into Eggs?

Stem cell technology could be used to turn induced apluripo stem cells into embryos, and then we'll be able to select across hundreds of embryos without having to harvest eggs. There's going to be some trepidation initially as people think they can just pay some 19 year old to be your egg downer or something. But i don't know, adoption wise, what's going to happen there, but i do think that it's just a technological prediction. We're not that far from being able to do it.

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