Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Steve Hsu is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University, and one of the founders of the company Genomic Prediction. We go deep into the weeds on how embryo selection can make babies healthier and smarter. Steve also explains the advice Richard Feynman gave him to pick up girls, the genetics of aging and intelligence, and the psychometric differences between shape rotators and wordcels. Read Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/steve-hsu Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3wob9AK Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3PCNK5m Steve Hsu's Blog: infoproc.blogspot.com Follow Steve: https://twitter.com/hsu_steve Follow me: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:49 Feynman’s advice on picking up women 0:12:21 Embryo selection 0:24:54 Why hasn't natural selection already optimized humans? 0:34:48 Aging 0:43:53 First Mover Advantage 0:53:50 Genomics in dating 1:00:32 Ancestral populations 1:07:59 Is this eugenics? 1:16:00 Tradeoffs to intelligence 1:25:02 Consumer preferences 1:30:15 Gwern 1:34:36 Will parents matter? 1:45:26 Word cells and shape rotators 1:57:27 Bezos and brilliant physicists 2:10:24 Elite education