Polygenic scores can only predict about four IQ points, a point Kian (Nucleus CEO) has made to me many times. So how is this possible?

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Eugenics on the Q train

On the NYC subway this week, an ad campaign from a genetics and fertility startup promoting babies with “good genes” — basically the Sydney Sweeney ad meets IVF.

EXCLUSIVE: Profile of Chris Buskirk, creator of the tech elite donor network Rockbridge w/JD Vance and Peter Thiel that helped deliver Trump the presidency and is now at the center of power in Washington. If MAGA outlives Trump, Chris will have a lot to do with it. But don’t call him an oligarch.

Can technology scale the most precious thing of all: human life. 🙏🙏🙏

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 10mo ago

Incredible story about the new babies conceived through robotics wapo.st/3Kt4u26 @lizzalichka.bsky.social went to Mexico to see "the Aura system, which automates 205 manual steps in IVF from egg freezing to creating an embryo"

NEW: I went to Mexico to see a generation of babies being conceived through AI & robotic IVF - automated systems w/no human involvement. It’s a deeply human story about the global infertility crisis and whether tech can scale the most precious thing we have: human life. Gifted here: wapo.st/3Kt4u26

Robots are learning to make human babies. Twenty have already been born.

One in six people of reproductive age suffer from infertility. Start-ups are using AI-powered robots to increase IVF success rates and lower costs.

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This article & podcast, on the true complications of LASIK, describes my experience and the hell of the past year to the T. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Vision fix or health hazard? What everyone should know about a common eye procedure.

Podcast Episode · Apple News+ Narrated · 07/14/2025 · Subscribers Only · 33m

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