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Stephen Hsu

Stephen Hsu

American physicist

Aug 5, 2026

2:26
What did physics train you to see about intelligent genetics and prediction that biologists or physicians might often miss?
2:40
Wow, that's a great question.
2:43
The easy answer has to do with the mathematical structure of the function that relates the information that's in your DNA to the actual complex traits that are exhibited in an individual.
2:59
So there is some mathematical function, which if you take as an input, the genes, the genetic information, DNA information for an individual, that function then maps to some prediction.
3:11
And the prediction could be this person is six feet tall.
3:15
This person has green eyes.
3:17
This person has IQ of 130.

9 MINS LATER

11:55
What's the weirdest thing that physicists understand about reality? You're the perfect person to ask this, that biologists still resist emotionally.

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