Today I interview Prof. Kevin Esvelt of the MIT media lab. Coming from George Church's lab, Kevin was part of the discovery of Crispr, and the inventor of the Crispr based gene drive. He has become deeply involved in the prevention of existential risks. You can learn more about his work here:
www.media.mit.edu/people/esve...
3:21 - Gene Drives intro
14:04 - Applications of Gene Drives
23:32 - Extinction and Enviromental Impact
25:40 - Trust in Science
32:16 - Eliminating Lime Disease
37:30 - Community Guided Science
45:18 - Delay Detect Defend
50:58 - The Virology Community
54:10 - Covid Chimera
56:30 - Preventing Bioterrorism and Pandemics
58:45 - SecureDNA
1:03:13 - Insurance for Existential Risk
1:08:07 - Compared to Nuclear
1:10:00 - Detection
1:13:24 - Defending against Pandemics
1:25:49 - Infrastructure against Pandemics
1:33:38 - Existential Pandemic
1:34:40 - Geneva
1:35:35 - AI and Other Existential Threats
1:38:39 - Giving People the Red Button
1:41:57 - Science Positive for Humanity
1:44:33 - Who Gets the Red Buttons?
1:47:47 - Do you get Tired?
1:55:05 - Morality
1:59:45 - What is suffering?
2:09:32 - Limiting Animal Suffering
2:16:06 - Genetic Editing to Make Happier People
2:17:04 - Factory Farming
2:20:44 - The Borg, Star Trek, and Sci-Fi
2:22:44 - Open Source
2:24:44 - Removing Disease from Humanity
2:27:46 - Aging
2:34:23 - Partial Societal Collapse
2:36:50 - Humility
2:54:37 - Outro
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