Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence

The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.

oh no, not a eugenicist!

this is a nice writeup of the story of Ziz

we'll get there, comment by comment! Or not.

he could have just said "as he calls himself", but nooo

"kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear"

the culture war is VERY BIG on this one, I am sorry to have informed you

I run Blue Blocker and I've blocked somewhere over 200k so far, but that's just because I work hard as a hater

loved how Metz is literally just explaining his job in terms that make obvious sense, and the commenters go off to construct a stupendous conspiracy theory

also, like. we have the email where Scott confesses that he started SSC to promote reactionary ideas and race science. Zack has even posted about said email.

Funded by Thiel, so more on topic here than we might like

i'm shocked that regular midwest socially conservative normal people didn't flock to him

NOW YOU MIGHT THINK

btw, this is the top mind who previously asked "where's the economic incentive for wokism coming from?"

he's also the cofounder of CFAR, in case anyone ever tries to make out he isn't a normative rationalist