by Higgenbotham » Sun Oct 05, 2025 12:19 pm
The trial has potentially global ramifications. One in six people of reproductive age experiences infertility, according to the World Health Organization. The number is consistent across developed and developing countries and is growing as women delay childbirth and environmental and other factors come into play. The vast majority of this group — aside from a relatively small percentage in wealthy countries — lacks access to fertility care. Even in the United States, where a single cycle of IVF can cost up to $30,000 — and most patients require multiple cycles — fertility clinics are concentrated in wealthier coastal cities. Wide swaths of the country are what researchers call “fertility deserts.”
“Despite the magnitude of the issue,” the WHO concluded in a report in 2023, solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility “remain underfunded and inaccessible.”
The Aura system, which automates 205 manual steps in IVF from egg freezing to creating an embryo, is made by a start-up called Conceivable Life Sciences. Though headquartered in New York, Conceivable is largely the brainchild of a pioneering Mexican fertility doctor, Alejandro Chávez-Badiola, one of the first physicians to explore how artificial intelligence could be applied to the treatment of infertile patients.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... fertility/
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Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 3:23 pm
This industrial civilization goes to great lengths to assess and identify individuals who have intelligence according to the criteria that generally lead to career success and put those people in positions of decision-making (within limits of intelligence), but has no processes in place to assess and identify individuals who have wisdom or to place them in any position of decision-making. Also, in our everyday conversations both public and private, there are constant references to those who are “smart” but somewhere between zero and a very small number of references to people who are “wise”. Therefore, it’s not possible to point to a group of wise people who have been identified by some tried and true process and know what that group thinks about the Federal Reserve, or anything else. The problem if the wise were to somehow get control of decision making at this time is that the position industrial civilization currently finds itself in is not a good one for the wise to grapple with. People with wisdom are good at keeping a civilization on the correct path but not so good at knowing what to do with it once it has deviated from that path for a long time. An example of that might be the question of whether the world should have gone down the path of R&D and manufacturing of synthetic chemicals. The wise probably would have determined not go down that path, but in this industrial civilization they weren’t in any position of authority to determine whether that was going to be done; the intelligent (at the approximate level of the 97th Percentile, but not the highest level) were. Now that we have gone down that path, the wise probably can’t help us.
The obvious solution to the growing problem of infertility is right in the third sentence of the quoted paragraph from the Washington Post: pay livable wages to young people and clean up the environment. But since the intelligent at the approximate level of the 97th percentile have firm control, the solution is...drumroll...artificial INTELLIGENCE! Using our "intelligence" is how we got into this infertility predicament and it will enable and guarantee a growing predicament.
[quote]The trial has potentially global ramifications. One in six people of reproductive age experiences infertility, according to the World Health Organization. The number is consistent across developed and developing countries and is growing as women delay childbirth and environmental and other factors come into play. The vast majority of this group — aside from a relatively small percentage in wealthy countries — lacks access to fertility care. Even in the United States, where a single cycle of IVF can cost up to $30,000 — and most patients require multiple cycles — fertility clinics are concentrated in wealthier coastal cities. Wide swaths of the country are what researchers call “fertility deserts.”
“Despite the magnitude of the issue,” the WHO concluded in a report in 2023, solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility “remain underfunded and inaccessible.”
The Aura system, which automates 205 manual steps in IVF from egg freezing to creating an embryo, is made by a start-up called Conceivable Life Sciences. Though headquartered in New York, Conceivable is largely the brainchild of a pioneering Mexican fertility doctor, Alejandro Chávez-Badiola, one of the first physicians to explore how artificial intelligence could be applied to the treatment of infertile patients.[/quote]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/01/ivf-babies-ai-robots-fertility/
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This industrial civilization goes to great lengths to assess and identify individuals who have intelligence according to the criteria that generally lead to career success and put those people in positions of decision-making (within limits of intelligence), but has no processes in place to assess and identify individuals who have wisdom or to place them in any position of decision-making. Also, in our everyday conversations both public and private, there are constant references to those who are “smart” but somewhere between zero and a very small number of references to people who are “wise”. Therefore, it’s not possible to point to a group of wise people who have been identified by some tried and true process and know what that group thinks about the Federal Reserve, or anything else. The problem if the wise were to somehow get control of decision making at this time is that the position industrial civilization currently finds itself in is not a good one for the wise to grapple with. People with wisdom are good at keeping a civilization on the correct path but not so good at knowing what to do with it once it has deviated from that path for a long time. An example of that might be the question of whether the world should have gone down the path of R&D and manufacturing of synthetic chemicals. The wise probably would have determined not go down that path, but in this industrial civilization they weren’t in any position of authority to determine whether that was going to be done; the intelligent (at the approximate level of the 97th Percentile, but not the highest level) were. Now that we have gone down that path, the wise probably can’t help us.[/quote]
The obvious solution to the growing problem of infertility is right in the third sentence of the quoted paragraph from the Washington Post: pay livable wages to young people and clean up the environment. But since the intelligent at the approximate level of the 97th percentile have firm control, the solution is...drumroll...artificial INTELLIGENCE! Using our "intelligence" is how we got into this infertility predicament and it will enable and guarantee a growing predicament.