During his time as a MIRI research fellow, Carl Shulman co-authored (with Nick Bostrom) a paper that is now available as a preprint, titled “Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement: Curiosity or Game-changer?
Breeding humans for extreme cognitive enhancement seems like it should take thousands of years, right? Not with iterated embryo selection!
By creating “children” from gametes of other unborn cell clusters, you can effectively fast forward through hundreds of generations without any of the humans in the chain having to actually be born.
