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Steve Hsu - The Future of Human Evolution
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Steve Hsu - The Future of Human Evolution

Polygenic Scores, Embryo Selection, Gene Editing, and Statistics
Brian Chau
Sep 19, 2022
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Steve Hsu is a theoretical physicist at Michigan State, the co-founder of Genomic Prediction, and write of the blog Information Processing.

Round 1 with Steve Hsu:

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Information Processing: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/

Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hsu_steve

Human Nature (Documentary): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9612680/

Timestamps:

0:00 genomic prediction

12:20 communication, statistics and media

38:20 use of force

41:20 predicting intelligence

55:30 do progrsssives hate stats?

144:45 gene editing

2:00:00 He Jiankui

204:15 Machine Learning

218:30 Nazis in the Western memory

235:00 science fiction

240:20 chaos and order

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