13 - Steve Hsu: Polygenic Embryo Selection, Improving LLMs, & Getting Nearly Cancelled

Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University, as well as the founder of Genomic Prediction and SuperFocus AI; he also hosts the Manifold podcast, and the Information Processing blog.

Steve and I speak about polygenic risk scoring and embryo selection, using AI to predict phenotype from genotype, in-vitro fertilization (IVF), egg freezing, eugenic public policy, addressing Christians' and right-wing traditionalists' concerns, SuperFocus AI's plan to eliminate hallucination in large language models (LLMs) by separating memory from inference, introspection for LLM error correction, and surviving a cancellation attempt at MSU.

Steve Hsu:

On X: https://twitter.com/hsu_steve

Personal Site: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/

Manifold podcast: https://www.manifold1.com/

Genomic Prediction: https://www.lifeview.com/

SuperFocus AI: https://superfocus.ai/

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