AI generated for more cheap irony purposesThe ChatGPT/LLM era is now old enough that the discourse cycle has gone round quite a few times, which means we now find ourselves in the metadiscursive phase, when half of the discourse is about the discourse. Since we're mostly all sitting around waiting for the AI rapture to arrive, it's little surprise that things have gotten a bit. Consider this post by Scott Alexander of Astral Codex Ten.
Consider this post by Scott Alexander of Astral Codex Ten. His piece isn't about AI but rather recent developments in using IVF to select for embryos with desirable traits, which is now a field with several prominent for-profit competitors, a good deal of investment, and a growing customer base. This isn't actual embryo editing but rather embryo screening, which that can have a larger effect than you'd think.
This isn't actual embryo editing but rather embryo screening, which that can have a larger effect than you'd think.