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

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Is There a Causal Structure?

We don't even know whether the specific mechanisms that say predispose you to being tall or to having heart disease are the same in these different ancestry groups. We assume that it is, but we don't know that. So if there is a snip which, when i use it across multiple ancestoor groups, is always coming up as very significant, maybe that one's truly causal. Itsit's basically just a machine learning problem. But we need data. The resolution will be, again, the resoluely, the nature of reality determines this cannot go so and we don't knows the underlying biology if it's true.

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