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But that also made for an interesting conversation, although in a different way, as it allowed for us to get into the weeds on some fundamentally important issues we have both thought a lot about.Ī transcript of the entire conversation is below, lightly edited for clarity, and broken down by topic. Steve and I have many of the same interests, and we tend to think about them similarly. Some conversations are interesting because the participants find a lot to disagree on. Steve has been on the frontlines of this revolution, both as a researcher and an entrepreneur. Numbers like that are surely much higher among wealthier and better educated couples, and are only going to increase. In Denmark, 10% of kids are already born through the procedure, although it’s closer to 3-5% in most of the rest of the West. The conversation closes on the topics of genomics and embryo selection, including the state of the technology, its current uses, and cross-national differences in attitudes and regulations. Instead, you should simply look at important metrics over time in order to judge performance.

#Crazytalk pipeline keeps freezing series

More specifically, how should a non-specialist go about trying to understand the Chinese system in terms of strengths and weaknesses? We had basically both independently come to the same conclusion, which is that you shouldn’t assume you can figure out how well it works from the outside based on a series of logical steps or by listening to specialists. In another part of our discussion, we do some thinking about how one should think about China. Steve has many interesting thoughts on how the rise of China is going to affect the West psychologically, something I have also written and thought quite a bit about. Moreover, what would a Chinese attempt to conquer Taiwan look like, and what would the US be able to do in response? What should it do? This part of the conversation was followed by a long discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese system and its differences with the democratic capitalist model, including the former’s reliance on standardized tests and institutions designed to evaluate and promote government officials. As with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which proved US assumptions about what it was doing in that country to be based in fantasy, a conflict over Ukraine may again expose American delusions. We discussed how the state of Russian military technology gives the US less leverage than it thinks it has in the Ukraine crisis. This portion of the conversation covered issues like current tensions in Eastern Europe and American military power relative to that of China and Russia. I was mistaken we started talking about geopolitics and the Chinese system, and that took up about an hour.

Steve Hsu at his Caltech graduation with Richard Feynmanįor the CSPI podcast, I was excited to talk to Steve and thought we would be able to cover a wide range of the things he is interested in.