The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain

chemo/optogenetics have been used for decades to erase memories, change valence of memories, generate memories .... usually fear memories .. in mice.

Fascinating, terrifying. I don't think I was aware that Optogenetics were a thing, much less this article's news that Chemogenetics and DREADDs (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs) are entering human use.

You think you can keep up by staying abreast of frontier models and then the singularity sneaks up behind you in the form of Goo.

Nothing terrifying about _that_ title ...

"VCs in the US are too big now — only social media (prev) or Al (now) have the scale they want."

I agree.