Post #3333921
2026-06-16 12:36 UTC
Congrats to lesswrong, another one of their big ideas has reached the mainstream. (And it is eugenics).
Skeet from motherjones “Some of the same billionaires who bankrolled AI now admit the technology could one day kill us all.
And they’re funding a new plan to stop it—genetically engineered genius babies.”
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-06-16 16:54
When I emailed Denecke, he told me Bootstrap Bio had ceased operations due to lack of funding. (The company’s former chief science officer, Qichen Yuan, was indicted for attempted sex trafficking of a child in September 2025. His case is ongoing.) But before the company unraveled, its early investors included Malcolm and Simone Collins, whom you may have heard of.