Executive summary: The author argues that donating to the Berkeley Genomics Project is justified because accelerating safe, beneficial reprogenetics could substantially reduce disease, amplify human intelligence, and lower AI existential risk, and the project targets neglected medium-term technical and social gaps with early field-building traction despite high uncertainty.
Key points:
The author claims effective reprogenetics could greatly improve lives by reducing disease risk and enabling parents to make genomic choices for future children.
The author argues reprogenetics is the most feasible path to human intelligence amplification and therefore a top-few lever for reducing existential risk from AI.
The Berkeley Genomics Project focuses on neglected medium-term technologies, roadmaps, and public discourse rather than competing with large genetics research fields.
The project’s activities include summits, recorded talks, articles, networking, and plans for standards-setting, whitepapers, media outreach, and possible research or validation efforts.
The author says additional funding would be used for operations, consultants, writing, events, media production, and personal runway, even though minimum operating funding has been met.
The author acknowledges major risks and downsides, including regulatory barriers, a small and non-expert team, speculative tractability, and potential negative media attention.
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Executive summary: The author argues that donating to the Berkeley Genomics Project is justified because accelerating safe, beneficial reprogenetics could substantially reduce disease, amplify human intelligence, and lower AI existential risk, and the project targets neglected medium-term technical and social gaps with early field-building traction despite high uncertainty.
Key points:
The author claims effective reprogenetics could greatly improve lives by reducing disease risk and enabling parents to make genomic choices for future children.
The author argues reprogenetics is the most feasible path to human intelligence amplification and therefore a top-few lever for reducing existential risk from AI.
The Berkeley Genomics Project focuses on neglected medium-term technologies, roadmaps, and public discourse rather than competing with large genetics research fields.
The project’s activities include summits, recorded talks, articles, networking, and plans for standards-setting, whitepapers, media outreach, and possible research or validation efforts.
The author says additional funding would be used for operations, consultants, writing, events, media production, and personal runway, even though minimum operating funding has been met.
The author acknowledges major risks and downsides, including regulatory barriers, a small and non-expert team, speculative tractability, and potential negative media attention.
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