Steve Hsu is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University and cofounder of the company Genomic Prediction .
We go deep into the weeds on how embryo selection can make babies healthier and smarter.
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Timestamps
(0:00:14) - Feynman’s advice on picking up women
(0:11:46) - Embryo selection
(0:24:19) - Why hasn't natural selection already optimized humans?
(0:34:13) - Aging
(0:43:18) - First Mover Advantage
(0:53:38) - Genomics in dating
(0:59:20) - Ancestral populations
(1:07:07) - Is this eugenics?
(1:15:08) - Tradeoffs to intelligence
(1:24:25) - Consumer preferences
(1:29:34) - Gwern
(1:33:55) - Will parents matter?
(1:44:45) - Wordcels and shape rotators
(1:56:45) - Bezos and brilliant physicists
(2:09:35) - Elite education
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