Interesting, Elite. Can I ask you what you do right now?

I always knew you had training in science, but I didn't know you had an MSc. You must be really smart.

Lucky timing the FDA just approved the first sickle cell crispr therapy on Friday and didn't have a black box warning for cancer risk like the normal gene therapy approach that also got approved Friday did.

And even if it hasn't yet changed the landscape of medicine, it's changed biomedical research almost as kuchbas PCR did back in the 80s. You can demarcate a pre and post crispr world for biology.

Sure, I'm an analytical chemist and I specialize in mass spectrometry-related technologies and applications, it's not the craziest work but it's nice and easy if you have a great attention to detail and are careful.

I'm definitely well above average and was the top student in undergrad, some of my friends did think I was a chemistry genius, and my brother is a legit mathematical genius ($400K+ compensation writing algorithms) so atleast some is genetic. But I'm subpar when it comes to some other obligations. Nowadays I don't care too much for science but instead focus my mind on my athletic pursuits.

But coming back to the questions of whether true geniuses are born or made - I confidently believe it's a combination. True greatness is only achieved when one is both born highly intelligent and also puts in the necessary work. Someone can be decently successful if they're very smart with a shifty work ethic, or if they're dumb but have a great work ethic, but they will never be great.

Are you good-looking too? Can I see a picture of you.

Unfortunately I'm not comfortable sharing my picture here, but objectively yes. I'm an amateur natural physique bodybuilder working on the Olympic lifts as an end-goal. Ideally I'd like to make some money doing it but it's a tall order even with the pro card, maybe I'll win next year. I'd also like to male model but don't know how to break in, maybe I'm too old now though. Basically I'd rather work out for a living instead of doing real work

I understand that, Elite.

Can you try and describe your face to me? Like I know you are blue-eyed, but what about your hair colour and all the rest. I think you also said you're 5 foot 11? You sound like a total hottie to me.

And yes, at the age of 31, it is too late to be a model. They look at late teens and early 20s for that.

This post was edited by JessiWan on Dec 10 2023 04:37pm

gl

Yeah I mean this treatment is aimed for sickle cell disease, not trait. Life expectancy for sickle cell disease is around 50 and it’s a fucking miserable last 15-20 years with frequent hospitalizations related to crisis, life threatening infections , limb ischemia requiring blood thinners and amputations, the list goes on. All of medicine is risk stratifying pros/cons. This is absolutely revolutionary for sickle
Cell disease.

However, it’s so cost prohibitive that 99.999% of sicklers will
Not be able to afford it. And it doesn’t matter if you have public Medicaid or private united, they aren’t gonna cover shit. Unless you win the token lottery and get accepted into free trial, crispr advancements won’t help you here. Not that different from stem cell transplants that are also undoubtedly beneficial for these patients but also cost prohibitive

My mom says I look like my Swedish great grandpa

Thats what I'm thinking, but who knows. Even then I think it's hard to make money. My girlfriend's friend is a 16 year old international model and she still hardly gets paid, ontop of having to pay a ton of things yourself. Clothes modelling also has fallen prey to Wokeness, all the people you see are straight ugly and have visible tattoos, I'm sure you've noticed

Seems more like a proof of concept that helps 10-15 patients a year honestly. If we had treatments this labor intensive for every disease modern medicine would grind to a halt.