Genomic Prediction’s Stephen Hsu: “Making superhumans will be possible”
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 131
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Episode description
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stephen Hsu, co-founder of Genomic Prediction, to talk about the plummeting price of genomic sequencing (5:00), predicting height and cancer (9:10), mining biobanks (14:25), scoring embryos (19:00), why investors are staying anonymous (28:00), the need for a society-wide discussion (32:30), when he was accused of being a eugenicist (37:25), how powerful genetic prediction can be (43:15), genetic engineering (49:45), and why Denmark is the future (59:30).
See Stephen Hsu's podcast here: https://www.manifold1.com/
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