How to Make Superbabies — LessWrong

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x How to Make Superbabies — LessWrong Biology Human Genetics Startups Intelligence Amplification Human Germline Engineering World Optimization Curated 2025 Top Fifty: 96 % 648 How to Make Superbabies by GeneSmith , kman 19th Feb 2025 37 min read 363 648 EDIT: Read a summary of this post on Twitter Working in the field of genetics is a bizarre experience. No one seems to be interested in the most interesting applications of their research. We’ve spent the better part of the last two decades unravelling exactly how the human genome works and which specific letter changes in our DNA affect things

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