The West, or perhaps only the Anglosphere, is the historically unique idea that individuals exist not for the sake of their ruler, their class, their society, their ancestors, their gods, or any other such superstition, but for their own sake.

I still don’t understand how a German came up with the diagnosis of Asperger’s when Asperger’s is just the state of being German

Rene Magritte’s The Blank Signature. A horse, a forest, and a paradox. This painting breaks your brain—and then rebuilds it.

Nuclear is the best source of energy across nearly all the factors that matter. It's the safest, cleanest, densest, most sustainable, geopolitically stable, predictable, dispatchable, and can be cheap. 1. SAFEST It kills 1000x less than coal

Finally a reliable online IQ test, with cognitive ability subdomains riotiq.com

What if we stopped waiting for illness to care about health? THIS WEEKEND June 22–23, we gather in downtown SF to flip the script at the Longevity Summit @ Viva Frontier Tower. Top Speakers like Aubrey de Grey and Irina Conboy will be sharing the latest in neurotech, senescent

this is why we should forgive student debt and make the boomers who lied to them pay for it with a stroke of a pen you would shift millions of voters away from redistribution they're not 18 anymore, they're not going to go back to college now

What if this professor just prevented a future full scale invasion of Iran by the US? Not saying his analysis is correct, but convincing enough to the American public (gone viral, with 1M views in a week) youtu.be/7y_hbz6loEo?si…

So let me get this straight: the entire US economic policy is a Hail Mary pass based on A.I. and humanoid robots adding 2 trillion $ per year to GDP? And that capex happens before the debt burden becomes unmanageable...

🧵1/ LBF7 Spain is happening and we're doing something kinda wild: -We’re gathering the smartest people who want to SOLVE AGING -going to a longevity resort in the Spanish mountains -to learn, discuss and ACTUALLY BUILD stuff for 7 days straight Here’s what we’re cooking 👇

Communism was slavery. That’s what 100% taxation meant. And they didn’t want the slaves to escape. But there is always an exit.

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I’ve been working with an IVF startup, Herasight, that has already screened hundreds of embryos. Today we come out of stealth with a paper showing that our predictors for 17 diseases — validated within-family — beat the competition, with improved performance in non-Europeans🧵

People with higher IQs tend to be better off in a variety of ways. For example, they tend to be less socially isolated and less neurotic, with far fewer mental disorders to boot.

We wrote an accessible article about Herasight's polygenic scores for embryo screening.

This is just the beginning. I don't say that mournfully or gleefully. No one can know how it will play out, except that there will be surprises. Rather, it's a statement of fact that human reproduction is going to change dramatically, and it's going to happen first among the

This is the greatest argument I’ve heard for why electric vehicles are better than gasoline-powered cars.

Longevity biotech colleagues in London: August 22nd I will give a presentation on the state of the LongBio field from a VC perspective. Hosted by the Oxford Society of Aging and Longevity (OSAL) at the Blackfriars building. Decentralised Science (DeSci) London Healthspan Capital Longevity Biotech Fellowship