Professor jokes: skip embryo screening, buy the baby an RTX 5090 and a frontier model subscription
lpachter · x · 2026-09-22
A piece of AI-circle dark humor about embryo genetic screening controversy: the author quips that parents should just pick a random embryo and spend the savings on an RTX 5090 plus a frontier model subscription as a birth gift — mocking the cost-effectiveness of genetic optimization versus simply giving kids compute.
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