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Our daughter is the first US baby born from an automated IVF lab.
I wrote the first check into Conceivable, & eventually, they gave us our daughter. Watching the robots work felt like a moon landing. @sarahfrier captures the heartbreak, joy, life & death of this journey in @BW
A new robotic lab that makes human embryos using AI is now responsible for 19 babies. Is it better at IVF than humans are? bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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i love having a little family. i love cooking and the trampoline and reading harry potter. i love picking up lego. i love when my little toddler learns a new word or discovers kimchi is spicy. there is almost infinite reward in the banal & quotidian and its your job to get it out
... emotional processing... in Jack Hilgard's original terminology we would say, you still have the sensory component, sometimes even stronger, but you don't have the suffering component...
for all the novocaine talk in the tl… fearlessness for yourself is rare but fearlessness for the collective is rarer
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Most spiritual people seeking enlightenment would be better served seeking existential maturity instead: The ability to answer the deepest questions of existence for one's self, without wrapping yourself in defense or delusion.
The skills you need to get you there will also serve loftier paths! But you'd avoid a lot of pitfalls by setting your sights appropriately to begin with
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There have been 4 major revolutions in the past 250 years: American, French, Russian, and Chinese. Only one led to individual rights and prosperity. The others led to mass death and tyranny. The US revolution was unique because it said two things: 1. Our rights come from God not from the govt. 2. Humans are power -hungry so we need to limit govt power. So the next time someone attacks the nation of one revolution that succeeded and recycles the the idea of those that miserably failed, you can ask them: are you ignorant, or malicious?
Akshually, IVF won’t be over. 80% of IVF is embryology. Once you have eggs and sperm, they go through a 200+ step in a lab to create embryos. And then, once you have embryo, the woman still has to go through hormone stimulation to prepare for implantation.
So maybe fewer egg freezing if we can make eggs from skin cells, but the rest of IVF process remain critical to actually having a baby
