Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-03-06
Books mentioned on The Wild Ethics Of Human Genetic Enhancement - Dr Jonathan Anomaly - #598
Dr Jonathan Anomaly is a philosopher who writes about the social implications of emerging biotechnologies, teaches classes in ethics and game theory, and helped design the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at Duke University. The ability to select from potential embryos is already here.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hereditary Genius
Hereditary Genius by Francis Galton is an 1869 foundational text that attempted to prove human intelligence and success are primarily inherited traits.
Discussed“and his cousin Francis Galton who studied the ready of specific traits that we care about in humans intelligence so he wrote a book called hereditary genius but also just banal traits like height and skin color and hair texture and stuff like that”
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Life At The Speed Of Light From The Double Helix To The Dawn Of Digital Life
Life At The Speed Of Light From The Double Helix To The Dawn Of Digital Life by J.
Recommended“and in fact one book about the future of this is by Craig Venter who was the first to sequence the human genome in the year 2000 and he does a lot of what's called synthetic biology now but his book is called life at the speed of light”
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The Precipice
The Precipice by Toby Ord is a comprehensive exploration of existential risks and the various threats that could potentially bring about the end of human civilization.
Recommended“and then I read um the precipice by Toby ORD it's one of my five best books that I've ever read my entire life”
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The Case Against Perfection
The Case Against Perfection by Michael J.
Discussed“old argument from Michael sandel at Harvard against using these Technologies was hypothetical at the time it's called the case against Perfection”
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The Genetic Lottery
The Genetic Lottery by Kathryn Paige Harden is a book that examines behavioral genetics, social inequality, and how genetic differences intersect with public policy and education.
Discussed“this conversation kind of reminds me a little bit of um Catherine page Harden's book the genetic lottery so behavioral geneticist but somebody who's from very strongly from the left”
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