Have you discussed or tried petitioning the government to focus on this? I've been in D.C. for the past 8 months lobbying the government for something related. I've learned a lot about how the government works, and I've been thinking that it could be quite effective if people like you, Yuval Noah Harari, Max Tegmark, Geoffrey Hinton, etc., formed a small lobby group to get government action on this.
Oh my god, what a disturbingly overconfident & erroneous comment. Especially coming from someone who has been immersed in science for so many years. I recognize your name from Reddit from over 10 years ago.
Due to Brandolini's law, your comment made me look up how to block users on Lesswrong, which apparently isn't possible. I now have to waste a huge amount of time debunking your egregious misinformation. I will only do it this once because in my experience, people who exhibit this kind of behavior will continue it. So in the future I will simply refer... (read more)
I agree with the majority of this, especially the part where we are in a race to increase our own intelligence before we destroy ourselves with AI or something else.
But I think there's something missing in your analysis.
"Genes are the piano; the microbiome is the pianist."
I think your comment ignores the plethora of evidence supporting donor-quality hypotheses. Much of it was presented in the OP, and covered the permanent extinction of our host-native microbiomes, along with the exponential rise in chronic disease.
Your suggestion seems to be to “try to find a plethora of plant and wildlife species in a forest that has been burned to the ground”. Whether you can piece it back together is unknown, but I don’t think that’s the best approach to take right now.
Also, one of the major problems is that most people are n... (read more)
HumanMicrobes.org donor criteria are listed on the Donors page. The specifics beyond those basic criteria are not listed for a variety of reasons, including, that they may change over time as we experiment and learn more, and that we need people to be honest with their applications.
There are companies trying to identify that, and use it to create "synthetic" FMT capsules, but it's largely not yet known, and in my opinion it will be decades before we can replace whole stool with synthetic FMT.
Have you discussed or tried petitioning the government to focus on this? I've been in D.C. for the past 8 months lobbying the government for something related. I've learned a lot about how the government works, and I've been thinking that it could be quite effective if people like you, Yuval Noah Harari, Max Tegmark, Geoffrey Hinton, etc., formed a small lobby group to get government action on this.
It's very much related to the current "Make America Healthy Again" focus.