William C Stanford

Dec 12, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Seth Herd |Adele Lopez |Scott Alexander |William C Stanford

TL;DR versionIn the course of my life, there have been a handful of times I discovered an idea that changed the way I thought about where our species is headed. The first occurred when I picked up Nick Bostrom’s book “superintelligence” and realized that AI would utterly transform the world. The second was when I learned about embryo selection and how it could change future generations.