George Church

You know, because you could tip our priorities towards something that we really don't care about, that we shouldn't care about or might wish we didn't care about, right?

These are great questions and I'm not sure, I don't want to misrepresent that I know the answers, but it's like the question of if you have

Nine women, can you do pregnancy in one month?

No, not present.

But you're working on that, right?

But the same thing is, there may be certain things that doesn't take a lot of people.

We just don't know.

We just don't have that much experience with having...

you know thousands of Einstein type levels of creativity and intelligence simultaneously in a generation and in fact It's probable that we're all Capable of being a bit more efficient if we don't have you know distractions of mental illness of you know

taking care of other people.

Now, taking care of other people may be a very good thing.

You know, it may be that if we have no one to take care of, there'll be something bad that happens to us socially.

So these things are very complicated, hard to predict.

I think right now, I think the

The baby step, or actually the pretty big baby step, is to eliminate diseases or at least make it possible for people to eliminate their own diseases as they see fit.

I think I always felt it was very gnarly.

I also felt that it was something that we could engineer.

Certainly, we have made a lot of progress at the broken end of the spectrum where the brain is severely challenged.

challenged relative to average.

There's thousands, a huge fraction of genetic diseases that have one of their consequences being that the child is developmentally delayed to such an extent that it's lethal or a lifetime deficit.