Autistic Gertrude Stein. Reverend Mother of the Super Babies. Talk to me about the far future, and the distant past. Herodotus Truther. San Francisco, CAJoined February 2013
Rather than Hogwarts houses, we should sort people by eschatology
Some say the world will end in fire, others say in:
Climate Cataclysm
AI Apocalypse
Idiocracy
The Rapture
The Fascists Win
The Communists Win
Children of Men
Something about Bees
Am I missing any?
This is also true for birth spacing
Most health orgs strongly advise women to wait a minimum of 18 months between babies. And it’s true - many studies show that a short IPI (inter pregnancy intervals) results in worse outcomes for mothers and babies
HOWEVER!
When you control…
This is also true for birth spacing
Most health orgs strongly advise women to wait a minimum of 18 months between babies. And it’s true - many studies show that a short IPI (inter pregnancy intervals) results in worse outcomes for mothers and babies
HOWEVER!
When you control…
IVF in the US is only expensive to patients because it's cash pay. An IVF cycle is *less than* the US annual health spending per capita.
We could easily subsidize IVF. But the idea that healthcare should be spent on the young, rather than the old and dying, is unthinkable
At the 2025 Reproductive Frontiers Summit, John D. Boyle spoke about children with exceptional cognitive abilities. What are they like? How can they be well-supported to learn and develop? John discusses these questions and more. Link below ⬇️
States collect extraordinary quantities of data about society, but liberty is preserved because most of it is illegible. AI will upend that.
Part of a wide ranging discussion about the implications of reasoning models with AI research cofounder Anish Tondwalkar, linked below.
yeah, if you need an argument other than "because it's awesome" for space travel and colonization, "because humans need a way to actually get away from everyone else or they start going insane" is probably one of the strongest
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yeah, if you need an argument other than "because it's awesome" for space travel and colonization, "because humans need a way to actually get away from everyone else or they start going insane" is probably one of the strongest
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Thoughts behind the Avalon Institute - more than you wanted to know
Academia is struggling (at best) to fulfill their role. We can build something better. Almost everything good about my life is downstream of what patchy solutions we have for academic misfits
Thoughts behind the Avalon Institute - more than you wanted to know
Academia is struggling (at best) to fulfill their role. We can build something better. Almost everything good about my life is downstream of what patchy solutions we have for academic misfits
Too many people with an enduring passion for art and thought fit poorly or not at all within the current system, isolating them from the peers and mentors they need to flourish. This is why the Avalon Institute was created.
Watch @herasight's own philosopher, @JonathanAnomaly, discuss the ethics of polygenic embryo screening with esteemed philosopher of biomedical ethics Allen Buchanan.
Watch @herasight's own philosopher, @JonathanAnomaly, discuss the ethics of polygenic embryo screening with esteemed philosopher of biomedical ethics Allen Buchanan.
Steve Hsu argues the US will be increasingly powerless to affect geopolitics in the Western Pacific, pointing to the failure to reopen Red Sea shipping as a sign of the rapidly changing nature of war and global power.
Link to the full episode below.
@slatestarcodex has written a great article on the burgeoning field of embryo selection, featuring our recently launched company @herasight. Scott has used the technology himself and gives an overview of the field - this is an essential read for anyone curious to learn more.
We're in this insane world right now where rich parents are going through IVF just to do embryo selection, and middle class parents who are ALREADY doing IVF are being told by doctors that embryo selection doesn't work or is unethical.
I’ve been working with an IVF startup, @herasight, that has already screened hundreds of embryos. Today we come out of stealth with a paper showing that our predictors for 17 diseases — validated within-family — beat the competition, with improved performance in non-Europeans🧵
Twitter: things are getting worse, nothing can be done, the institutions won't listen etc.
Trace: You can just make your own institutions. No one is stopping you. It's a very high EV move. You should make an institution. I have 3 institutions at home.
I loved this convo
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AI hope lies in the normies.
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