This is so interesting. Thanks for posting this. I wonder what non biological innovations we can create to encourage more babies - economically, socially, etc.
So many women I know in their early 20s would actually prefer to have babies now. But there’s always a non-biological, limiting reagent.
So many women I know in their early 20s would actually prefer to have babies now. But there’s always a non-biological, limiting reagent.
Almost 10% of babies born in SF are conceived through IVF.
A study found that mice conceived through IVF have lower testosterone and abnormal sperm with altered DNA marks.
It's just one study, but I do wonder about possible epigenetic complications as IVF becomes more common:
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I think ai progress has been rapid but really the deployment of it has and will continue to be slow. For cyber we need policy that can catch up to the speed of frontier progress, but in other domains the tech is really only slowly disseminating, and thus I think people can feasibly react and it's not as scary as those who sit closest to the tech think (because they sit too far from the real world to understand that it takes a LOT of effort to bring the capabilities to real world contexts)
Spending two days on a university campus that’s not Stanford makes me realize that society is absolutely not ready for what’s to come. Everyone’s about deer-in-the-headlights as everyone else.
Most are still going about their old ways of doing things treating this whole “AI thing” as something that will be figured out later while also openly expressing worries about how this will have hugely disruptive impacts on society and employment over cocktails.
How will our institutions respond to or cope with the rapid change amidst a plethora of other seismic changes like geopolitics, demographics and migration, and inflation etc etc.
Apparently China’s economic slowdown alone has led to a sharp decrease in the enrollments of international masters students that historically help fund many of the other programs since international students pay much higher tuition than domestic esp in-state students.
Now add on top of it the demographic aging and the disruption of AI on the value of (higher) education and institutional knowledge acquisition.
So far this has had a counterintuitive positive impact on the top tier universities like the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, while hitting the lower tier schools much harder. We saw similar things in the commercial real estate market: new and fancy office buildings saw an increase in demand while older offices were abandoned. It remains to be seen whether this trend continues or is only a transitory substitution effect before the “income effect” takes over.
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just left the YC female founder's conference and feel this more acutely now. venture capital should not be the de facto source of capital. founders should think about why they're taking it on.
more on: irisfu.substack.com/p/the-shape-of…
more on: irisfu.substack.com/p/the-shape-of…
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after some time away from the valley, I had so much fun @hardlaunching camp, with other ambitious 20 somethings working to build the future!
thank you @Jackyhuang @ryleestanton @BainCapVC @Accel + others for the awesome group. excited for the inevitable reunion
thank you @Jackyhuang @ryleestanton @BainCapVC @Accel + others for the awesome group. excited for the inevitable reunion
just had the best weekend of my entire life at camp (:
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Iris Fu retweeted
America is banning AI in schools.
China is using AI to create geniuses.
Introducing Aristotle: The AI tutor that solves America’s broken education system. heyaristotle.com
China is using AI to create geniuses.
Introducing Aristotle: The AI tutor that solves America’s broken education system. heyaristotle.com
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