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Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
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Why Is This Genetic Architecture So Simple?
Evolution has not had that much time to optimize humans. The environment we live in is radically different from the one 10,000 years ago. It's quite plausible to me that if i wanted to edit an embryo, human embryo, and make it into a frog, then there's all kinds of non linearor subtle things i have to do. But all those very non linear, complicated sub systems are fixed in humans. You can just inherit them without worrying about breaking the mechanisms. My dog would be better to be ten feet tall than my child. If god wanted us to be smart, he'd pick someone who was at least 5'10" or 6'1". We don't
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