The World of Yesterday: Steve Hsu on polygenic scores, gene editing, human flourishing

 

I really enjoyed this long conversation with Dan Schulz, an MSU engineering grad who works in tech. Dan did his homework and we covered a lot of important topics.

Transcript: https://www.danschulz.co/p/3-steve-hsu 

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Timestamps

 

(0:00:00) - Intro 

(0:00:33) -  Genomic Prediction 

(0:05:54) - IVF 

(0:12:34) - Phenotypic data 

(0:15:42) - Predicting height 

(0:28:27) - Pleiotropy 

(0:39:14) - Optimism 

(0:45:03) - Gene editing 

(0:48:27) - Super intelligent humans 

(1:01:27) - Regulation 

(1:06:36) - Human values 

(1:17:38) - Should you do IVF? 

(1:26:06) - 23andMe 

(1:29:03) - Jeff Bezos 

(1:34:29) - Richard Feynman 

(1:43:43) - Where are the superstar physicists? 

(1:45:37) - Is physics a good field to get into?