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Don't try to cure cancer — Ada Nguyen

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A few weeks ago, there was an interesting discussion on twitter : If you can rewrite DNA on the fly, do you want to cure cancer or do whatever you want? Where do you fall on the Spider-Man to dinosaur man spectrum on this topic? Most people, when asked, say they want to do the most good for the

A few weeks ago, there was an interesting discussion on twitter: If you can rewrite DNA on the fly, do you want to cure cancer or do whatever you want? Where do you fall on the Spider-Man to dinosaur man spectrum on this topic? Most people, when asked, say they want to do the most good for the world. But aiming for social good is not how you change the world. Aiming for curiosity is. Curiosity is a force behind geniuses. Richard Feynmann was watching a student fool around and throw a plate in the cafeteria of Cornell University. He saw that as the plate spun, it wobbled, and noticed that…

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