This seems like major news…

🚨 Synthetic Human Embryos Created in Lab 🚨

No sperm, no egg required.

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/14/synthetic-human-embryos-created-in-groundbreaking-advance

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This is super cool but there’s definitely concerns.

If you thought printing money was bad…wait until they start printing soldiers.

Exactly.

I wonder if the distant future is actually populated with machine minds and biological machines?

Cells can build anything, it’s just their only objective so far has been survival.

😅

🤓

😳

I remember thinking something like…

“ Wow, humans went from horse and cart to hitting golf balls off the surface of the moon in a single human lifespan. Surely my time on Earth won’t see such dramatic advances as that. “

Well I’m half way though, and things are getting weird. Starting to notice the compounding.

Technologies like synthetic human embryos does really weird stuff to demographic projections and assumptions about long term interest rates. You could make some really weird assumption sets for strategic modelling and they’re not crazy.

Consensus probabilities about the future are just dissolving into tail scenarios. It’s a real challenge. What do you teach your kids?

The human race could well bifurcate the way things are headed.