A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church

<p>George Church is the godfather of modern synthetic biology and has been involved with basically every major biotech breakthrough in the last few decades.</p><p>Professor Church thinks that these improvements (e.g., orders of magnitude decrease in sequencing & synthesis costs, precise gene editing tools like CRISPR, AlphaFold-type AIs, & the ability to conduct massively parallel multiplex experiments) have put us on the verge of some massive payoffs: de-aging, de-extinction, biobots that combine the best of human and natural engineering, and (unfortunately) weaponized mirror life.</p><p>Watch on <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/olmHHxFQwxo">YouTube</a>; listen on <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381?i=1000714690480">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7i0apPkNdLsZPfUulrAzHu?si=d3e1c0312c0c4a9b">Spotify</a>.</p><p><strong>Sponsors</strong></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https...