Atul Gawande: prediction

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…Yes, the best time. [laughter] Right, right. He had to stop driving because of what happened during driving. But he would drop into these dream states and then wake up with unbelievable ideas. And there’s lots of ways in which he is unique, and a parent might think, “aberrant person,” and wouldn’t select for what he has brought to the world. And there are lots of neuroatypical phenotypes. The CRISPR capability is just another bullet in the holster that can be fired, but we are narrowing that neurotypical range in lots and lots of different directions, whether it’s how we employ people, what kinds of options we put out there for people to have their aberrant thinking recognized and taken advantage of, to the ways we medicate and control people. And I think CRISPR—it actually will be exceedingly difficult to be able to pick many of these capabilities out, in part because they’re multigene. These are not conditions that very often have to do with point mutations that you just adjust. They are interactions among many genes of a network. You run big data in every generation. The chance of outliers falls by 1 percent. And then over time, it’s going to make a big difference, right?…

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