When you first started collecting these dilemmas, did you ever foresee technology would eventually make us more disconnected rather than less?

No is the answer.

I didn't see that, and nobody really did in, in terms of technology.

At that point, the internet didn't even exist.

And you were...

This was all about using some tool, some challenge, some way of fostering deep interconnection and vulnerability and sharing, and moving very quickly away from the channels of conversation that are so boring and don't push into any depth and that we travel generally.

And so I didn't even think of writing a book of questions.

And I think AI has its uses elsewhere, but John, that's how I would answer that question.

We're gonna join Gregory Stock with his opening statement in favor of the motion, "Be it resolved, let's engineer better human beings." [audience applauding]

So engineering better human beings.

Let's be clear what we're talking about, and I think the key word here is better.

So, you know, all of you have been talking about this, and I think you can think of a lot of different things that you might mean by better.

So rather than get into that tangle, let's pick something that I think we could all agree would be better.

Let's look at therapeutic enhancements.

That's a class of interventions that are clearly enhancements, but they have therapeutic consequences.

Take us away.