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Published · transcript-backedGeorge Church: evaluation
26 Jun 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
“Very often there's low-hanging fruit that people just think is improbable. But it's there because biology has all these gifts where it just hands over to us levers that we can flip.”
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- George Church
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- 26 Jun 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…A Ship of Theseus kind of thing in the brain. Yeah exactly, Ship of Theseus, trying to maintain the connections and the memories. There's some fairly straightforward experiments that need to be done before we can really even estimate how hard that problem is. Very often there's low-hanging fruit that people just think is improbable. But it's there because biology has all these gifts where it just hands over to us levers that we can flip. Like vaccines are this amazing gift that didn't have to exist, but they do. Is there an existing gene delivery mechanism which could deliver gene therapy to every single cell in the body?…
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