Big if true, thank you for agreeing to ping me about this!
The “delivery vector” alone would be the big progress, I’d imagine, though I’m no expert. My experience so far is: knowing high school biology + watching that one YouTuber who “”“”cured”””″ his lactose intolerance with simple gene editing + the HackerNews comments about that YouTuber being a risk-blind idiot who was giving himself a cancer risk.
I wish this endeavor the best and will follow closely!
This is a bit of a tangent but what made you pick those ‘experiences’ instead of just watching some lectures from biology profs and reading some books?
I think saying I “picked” those experiences is giving me too much credit haha. In reality, it’s more “my time and mental energy are constrained, and what little I had left was put into AI alignment”. The rest was more free-floating attention; if I came across it (a youtube video, a Wentworth post, the Intelligence Enhancement tag on LW) I’d pay more attention, but seeking out lots of biology background knowledge is more on the “strategically become an intelligence-enhancement researcher myself” path. Not saying I’ll never do anything like that, but I’m too constrained to go after that in a remotely serious way right now.
Loosening such constraints and increasing my mental capacity are, in fact, key reasons why I keep making these threads.
Big if true, thank you for agreeing to ping me about this!
The “delivery vector” alone would be the big progress, I’d imagine, though I’m no expert. My experience so far is: knowing high school biology + watching that one YouTuber who “”“”cured”””″ his lactose intolerance with simple gene editing + the HackerNews comments about that YouTuber being a risk-blind idiot who was giving himself a cancer risk.
I wish this endeavor the best and will follow closely!
This is a bit of a tangent but what made you pick those ‘experiences’ instead of just watching some lectures from biology profs and reading some books?
I think saying I “picked” those experiences is giving me too much credit haha. In reality, it’s more “my time and mental energy are constrained, and what little I had left was put into AI alignment”. The rest was more free-floating attention; if I came across it (a youtube video, a Wentworth post, the Intelligence Enhancement tag on LW) I’d pay more attention, but seeking out lots of biology background knowledge is more on the “strategically become an intelligence-enhancement researcher myself” path. Not saying I’ll never do anything like that, but I’m too constrained to go after that in a remotely serious way right now.
Loosening such constraints and increasing my mental capacity are, in fact, key reasons why I keep making these threads.