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

Dwarkesh Patel
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Today I have the pleasure of  interviewing George Church.  I don't know how to introduce you. This is not even an exaggeration,

it would honestly be easier to list out  the major breakthroughs in biology over   the last few decades that you haven't been  involved in— from the Human Genome Project

to CRISPR, age reversal to de-extinction. So you weren't exactly an easy prep. Okay,

so let's start here. By what year would it be  the case that, if you make it to that year,   technology in bio will keep progressing to such  an extent that your lifespan will increase by

a year, every year, or more? Escape velocity is sometimes   what it's called for aging. Different people have estimates

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