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Eggs from men, sperm from women: stem cell science may change how we reproduce

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4 pointsPaulHoule14 comments

Could an over-reliance on artificial insemination magnify the portion of the gene pool unable to naturally reproduce several generations down the line?

Certainly, in the same way that several generations of C-sections have led to an unnaturally large headed population.

That's an interesting point I hadn't thought or learned about before. What else do you have to say?

In general, larger skulls correlate to greater intelligence. The limit on skull size is apparently the human birth canal size.

Generations of C-sections will eventually lead to greater average or median human intelligence.

This seems like something I should mention when someone talks about having had the C-Section.

Add some AI into the mix and the ubermensch will be here in no time. Imagine people who are their own mothers/fathers and selected in an optimal way by AI to advance the cause of humanity and their colonization of the stars. Truly marvelous developments.

Are you excited for that future?

100%. The singularity is almost here and having people that can self-fertilize like flowers is just an added bonus.

Same. I think life is about trying to find out what's behind all this, and the fastest way to that is to have as much help as we can.

Tell all your friends about the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™. Its creation would accelerate all of these developments and others that no one can even imagine. All I need is $80B.

What's the exact roadmap for that?

Lots of GPUs and then magic happens. It's well known by now that AI has emergent properties even though it's just a bunch of floating point arithmetic so the plan is to scale up the emergence by monitoring everything 24/7 in the panoptic computroinum chathedral and letting gradient descent handle the rest. The limiting factor is the hardware (monitoring and learning), hence why I need $80B.

OpenAI is a chatbot company and they're worth $100B so my price is a bargain deal for accelerating AGI and the singularity.

I am considering it, and I am talking to my friends, but I do need a powerpoint presentation to be able to go on from here. I understand myself that it is a bargain, but I don't have the full money myself.

Sounds good. I'll put something together.

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