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GeneSmith

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I’m a software developer by training with an interest in genetics. I am currently doing independent research on gene therapy with an emphasis on intelligence enhancement.

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GeneSmith7 Sep 2024 5:09 UTC
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Why you should be us­ing a retinoid

GeneSmith19 Aug 2024 3:07 UTC
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Sig­nifi­cantly En­hanc­ing Adult In­tel­li­gence With Gene Edit­ing May Be Possible

12 Dec 2023 18:14 UTC
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Black Box Biology

GeneSmith29 Nov 2023 2:27 UTC
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Digi­tal brains beat biolog­i­cal ones be­cause diffu­sion is too slow

GeneSmith26 Aug 2023 2:22 UTC
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[Question] How to take ad­van­age of the mar­ket’s ir­ra­tional­ity re­gard­ing AGI?

GeneSmith16 Aug 2023 3:30 UTC
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[Re­quest]: Use “Epi­lo­gen­ics” in­stead of “Eu­gen­ics” in most circumstances

GeneSmith1 Jun 2023 15:36 UTC
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Re­ply to a fer­til­ity doc­tor con­cern­ing poly­genic em­bryo screening

GeneSmith29 May 2023 21:50 UTC
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Twiblings, four-par­ent ba­bies and other re­pro­duc­tive technology

GeneSmith20 May 2023 17:11 UTC
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How to have Poly­geni­cally Screened Children

GeneSmith7 May 2023 16:01 UTC
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The de­fault out­come for al­igned AGI still looks pretty bad

GeneSmith27 Mar 2023 0:02 UTC
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Ponzi schemes can be highly prof­itable if your timing is good

GeneSmith12 Dec 2022 6:42 UTC
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Toni Kurz and the In­san­ity of Climb­ing Mountains

GeneSmith3 Jul 2022 20:51 UTC
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We need a stan­dard set of com­mu­nity ad­vice for how to fi­nan­cially pre­pare for AGI

GeneSmith7 Jun 2021 7:24 UTC
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[Question] Es­ti­mat­ing COVID cases & deaths in In­dia over the com­ing months

GeneSmith24 Apr 2021 21:35 UTC
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A Brief Re­view of Cur­rent and Near-Fu­ture Meth­ods of Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith10 Apr 2021 19:16 UTC
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Why Selec­tive Breed­ing is a Bad Way to do Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith5 Mar 2021 2:30 UTC
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Hu­man Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing: In­creas­ing Intelligence

GeneSmith5 Dec 2020 22:06 UTC
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The Case for Hu­man Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith28 Aug 2020 22:21 UTC
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