Radical human improvement is a necessary and urgent if humanity is to solve the crises we've created

As a father, I'm curious about how we build technology that helps people be the best versions of themselves, avoid our worst tendencies, and is attentive to the risks of paternalism @andersen @TaylorLorenz

What will humans look like in 100 years? by @richardjgodwin

Against Waldenponding: "small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas" by @vgr

The evolutionary leap & radical improvement of human cognition will start as a need to address pressing challenges. The ecosystem is developing. Interesting to imagine if technologies like these could be paired with @mit_ili's Skillscape to help people build skills @danielas_bot

"Good thing breakthroughs in the human condition happen outside of politics. History is the record of political failure. Progress is the march of science and technology." I have a few quibbles on the details, but @rossetto is on the money here

There are ~5x10^37 base pairs in extant DNA on Earth right now - representing 4 billion years of a catalytic chemical computation on the planet. What will we learn from this dataset?

6/ Two quotes come to mind: "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." & "If you want to build a boat, teach others to yearn for the sea."

5/We have Moore's Law for computers, yielding staggering algorithmic gains, what laws and consequences will emerge for radical human improvement? Can we even identify them now?

4/Since we can’t see it, we can’t JFK it (going to the moon), MLK it (I have a dream) or Babe Ruth it (calling the home run). Instead the great explorers of our age will succeed when they close their eyes set sail inwards.