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human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project | Manifund

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For children born using this technology, many major diseases would be prevented, which currently end or diminish the lives of many millions of people. The spans of life, health, and cognitive health would be greatly extended. Potentially, parents could choose to nudge the personality traits of their future children--e.g. making brave, kind, curious, reliable, determined people. What is definitely feasible is increasing IQ, which, while not being anywhere near to everything that matters even about specifically cognitive capacity, is nevertheless a minimum viable pathway to making there be many more people who can achieve groundbreaking scientific and philosophical insights. Crucially, this technology is humanity's best hope for making a generation of people who will be able to fully deal with the existential threat of AGI. Our plans are to tap into techno-optimist, humanist, and existential-derisking capital---financial, political, and human---to accelerate the remaining scientific disc

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project | Manifund 14 human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project Science & technology Biomedical Global catastrophic risks Tsvi Benson-Tilsen Active Grant $132,502 raised $250,000 funding goal Donate Sign in to donate Project summary We aim to accelerate the creation of strong human germline genomic engineering. For children born using this technology, many major diseases would be prevented, which currently end or diminish the lives of many millions of people. The spans of life, health, and cognitive health would be greatly

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