It surprises me that we hold such an anachronistic view of evolution -- ie. seeing it as a mechanical process ("only optimizes for survival and replication")

Humans cannot engineer an evolutionary process for consciousness better than nature because we lack a systemic view

The IVF clinic of the future will combine a handful of technologies (the Gattaca stack):

1. In vitro gametogenesis (IvG) - make eggs from skin or blood cells (much less invasive)
2. Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) - choose the embryo that best matches what you want,

Brian Armstrong

It surprises me that we hold such an anachronistic view of evolution -- ie. seeing it as a mechanical process ("only optimizes for survival and replication")

Humans cannot engineer an evolutionary process for consciousness better than nature because we lack a systemic view

https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1907190962125938734

Yikes. Didn’t know Brian be like that. 

This is a re-run of 19th century ideas, just with new fancy tools