The Future of Human Enhancements - Prof. George Church & Experts

[@PeterJoostenOrg]

This was an amazing discussion. Thanks for sharing this. 👍 I was really impressed by the fourth speaker, Meredith Whittaker (from 39:00) and the panel discussion. Here are (a lot of) timestamps, because I toke a lot of notes: 0:07 start George Church 4:46 inequality (not relative to ancestors) 5:49 not one to one relationship with heredity 7:19 we overshoot 10:04 start Jamie Metzl 13:00 Role of AI 14:45 IVF 16:07 precision medicine 17:20 stem cells 18:40 embryos that can mate with each other 20:11 gene editing 21:50 comfortable with new technology 22:25 Ethical questions like diversity, equity 23:46 different beliefs in the world 27:43 start Josephine Johnston 29:16 daughter and vaccins 31:15 where does it get tricky? 33:05 parenthood 34:05 arguments types 4x 34:27 means end distinction 34:57 hubris 35:49 complicit with suspect norms (liberal eugenitics) 36:44 Hyperagency (Sandel) 37:47 positive goals 4x 37:50 conclusion 39:06 end 39:19 Start Meredith Whittaker 39:41 why ai on he conference 41:09 why focus on dark side 41:20 current ai landscape 43:02 companies in neurotech 43:28 facebook 60 engineers bci 44:02 microsoft 44:19 neuralink 45:45 point: recources need 46:33 ai bias with examples (!) 48:00 normative archetype 48:48 what is normal? 50:05 Trump and politics 52:00 Start panel discussion 57:03 transhumanism and posthumanism? 1:07:38 Red lines like cloning? 1:12:08 inequality? 1:17:17 hacking genome? 1:19:19 distraction of technology 1:22:40 technology only for good? 1:26:22 social divide? 1:27:31 rich power > no determinism! 1:33:40 singularity? 1:36:34 change human nature?

[@blueblimp]

George Church is great, as usual. His analysis at 6:52 is good to remember: the most attractive enhancements are ones we can't already do with machines, and he points out cognitive and aging.

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[@conorayaan5691]

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[@KnThSelf2ThSelfBTrue]

Debates like this make me feel like the future is in good hands, despite everything.

[@Garium87]

1:15 "Many people don't think that we should extinguish deafness including the ones who know what they are talking about because they have the disability." I think she was referring to a deaf, lesbian couple from the US who came in the News because they made sure that the child inherited a gene-defect from one of them which made the child deaf. According to the woman from Newzeland, "they know best" because they have the disability. I say they don't know anything because they don't know what hearing is. They don't know what they miss or force the child to miss. To force a disability on a child is child abuse. That should not be controversial.

[@0113Naruto]

Holy shit your hair is amazing professor.

[@nick2902]

The last speaker was the most lucid on the subject material.

[@zeev]

what a great service if you could pay 10$ and someone would listen to and annotate 90 minute talks by every 5 minute change of subject with links that would be so amazing

[@manifestingfire7516]

I’m much more interested in what they talked about in private after the cams turned off. And what was said about the singularity is interesting.

[@007hansen]

We are free, free - falling onto quantum age of moore's law !?

[@Leo-ng9gi]

Hero Imagine being a super hero with fantastical powers To be able to communicate with the trees and the flowers To be able to connect with animals of all kinds To be able to speak to them and enter their minds Imagine, to be able to see in the dark like a cat Or visualize by means of sonar, like a whale, dolphin, or a bat Crawl up a vertical surface like an ant or a spider Fly like a bird, soaring, rising, and silent like a glider Teleportation, now that is alpha, the best To be able to get somewhere, quicker than the rest Regeneration, reincarnation, Godlike, untested Defeating criminals, and arch rivals bested A power, digesting data, absorbing knowledge by a simple touch Like a super computer, it is never too much Telekinesis, to move things with a thought Cast a net over a foe, and smiling when they realize they're caught To enter the ether, and know all things Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Uranus, Mercury and Saturn's rings To glance upon The Earth, and see the sorrow To see into the future, the unknown morrow I am aware, the power I would feel Is the greatest power, the power to Heal By Leo🐯👍💓

[@rudypayan1482]

What Science is best to study to get into this field?

[@nickc7573]

What's the full name of the science fiction author who does the 2nd talk? Jamie what? Anybody know, I want to see what books he has written

[@nickc7573]

found it! Jamie Metzl all the speakers' names can be found here: www.nyas.org/events/2018/the-enhanced-human-risks-and-opportunities/?tab=agenda

[@narsingrao8192]

Best business to start ?

[@cookieninja2154]

A bank, always has been, always will be. =D

[@th3ist]

"half of all embrios will be sequenced in china by 2020" wow this is insane, i need a source for this. anyone? complete media blackout on this topic, i can't find anything about it anywhere

[@johanjonasson4188]

Found any answers? I want to know also.

[@machinistnick2859]

Thanks

[@jamesdunmyre4005]

What's the author's name

[@gorantanko9849]

Great to have an intelectual debate about this topic that`s available for public view,but i believe that the direction of one should be led in a less "obscure" direction,that is;to keep a constant interest on PRIMARELY biologicaly acceptable direction of outcome of the development of the,what obviously seems to be,the inevitable perpetualisation of development of this,possibly,the most hazardous interaction of "humans" with the application of "engineering the bio-creation ",and not to keep it so closely interrellated with the eventual possibillities for eventual "fine tuning" of the "product" in purpose of eventual economic benefiting....blablablabla...

[@lloydbraun6026]

What an evil person

[@kpeteho6ot]

Oh my god, there was some terrible questions from the public... None of the women guests actually impressed me either. The only two people that had a clear view of the bigger picture (untarnished by current social culture influences) were the two male guests. I really hope we can dramatically improve science education of the masses in the near future. The AI researcher did give a nice answer for the singularity though.

[@kooshikoo6442]

I think your opinion of what is untarnished by current social culture influences just shows exactly what current social culture influences you have been influenced by. Claiming objectivity for something so obviously subjective can't be supported by logic. For the record, I have no specific position, I think all the panelists made good points that we should carefully consider.

[@Gi-Home]

Must be tedious for George to listen to this panel and questions/statements. 😂

[@1minus2]

jesus the women need to avoid talking about "power" because if they each decide to go at this topic with the college indoctrinated worry then there's ACTUALLY less diversity of thought approaching this topic. something they'd want to avoid.

[@scarlet8078]

Some of these talks were interesting but I don't understand why the scifi author was included. If he had some sort of scientific credentials then he should've stated that. It was pretty icky & uncomfortable hearing a male scifi author talk about IVF & women's eggs being harvested.

[@thefool733]

INDEED!

[@muz3623]

...if you find love and you want to give birth...wouldnt it be so unworthy and respectless if you think that your partner or love is not good enough for your childs DNA?

[@vichussain259]

good talk except for that SJW monologue

[@Myrddnn]

Vic Hussain if humans do not deal with social justice, we will NOT survive long as a species.

[@PCMcGee1]

How did we ever get by without it?

[@PCMcGee1]

"right" or "wrong" are opinions, social norms, therefore mutable. What will happen is different than what we "believe" will, or "wish" will happen. Technology will be deployed upon the paths of least resistance, with monetary inducement as the ultimate measure of fitness for purpose. By the same measures, cancer is the penultimate biological system in the human body. The acceptance of her passively commutative arguments is simply the zeitgeist of the era impinging on our ever-evolving moral constructs, acceptable, sometimes even constructive.

[@d4v3g18]

That was so laughably verbose and pretentious LOL. You're using a lot of words you clearly don't understand to say a whole not of nothing xD

[@PCMcGee1]

D4V3 G dude, lul

[@demej00]

libtards

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

Get a job Jimmy, you’ll feel better