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Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

23 Aug 2022

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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.Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform.Read the full transcript here.Follow Steve on Twitter. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes.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 Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe

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Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

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Other episodes from Dwarkesh Podcast

An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

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