reminds me of this

See Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight and maybe also Is Brain Size Morally Relevant?

My favourite way to use LLMs is to write personalised fiction. For example:
1. I'm trying to decide whether to have a child. It helps to have LLMs write stories about how my life as a parent might feel from inside under various circumstances (e.g., the child is autistic)
2. For my Dad's birthday, I wrote a story with LLMs where his favourite book character (Schweik) goes to my Dad's village and gets into my Dad's hobbies. Maybe I'll write a sequel where the book character meets my Dad. LLMs did a great job of capturing the humour of the original book.

Thanks for clarifying. If you ever pitch your ideas to potential investors or something, I recommend avoiding talking about hundreds of embryos, or at least acknowledging that this is unrealistic with current technologies before doing so. When reading, I was a bit worried that you might be divorced from reality, thinking in sci-fi terms, not knowing the basic realities about IVF. This made it difficult for me to trust other things you were saying about domains I know nothing about. Just letting you know in case it's helpful :)

I've just started reading and this seems very interesting and important. However, I find the discussion about embryos and scaling odd. I mean sentences like "If we had 500 embryos". Here is some quick info for women under 35, generated by ChatGPT:

• A single egg collection usually retrieves 8-14 eggs. Out of those, only 4-6 embryos typically develop far enough to be tested, and about 50-60% of those will be genetically normal. This means that in most cases, only 2-4 embryos per cycle are actually viable for implantation.
• Even in the best-case scenario, only about 50-55% of embryo transfers lead to a live birth.
• Egg collection and embryo transfer aren’t easy. Women have to inject hormones daily for weeks, go through a minor surgery to retrieve eggs, and deal with bloating, pain, and possible complications. It’s also expensive—one cycle can cost $10,000-$20,000. I doubt many women would go through dozens of rounds just to produce 100+ embryos.
  
  I think this makes embryo selection even less promising than you portrayed. I'm confused about how this affects your analysis of gene editing. Or maybe I just don't understand why you talk about hundreds of embryos because I haven't read the full text.