Book recommendations on genetics and bio hacking?

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Superintelligence by nick bostrum is about this and is fantastic. I actually forgot I read this book a few years ago until reading this post reminded me. An incredibly interesting book about the possibilities of intelligence (paths through bio hacking, AI, etc)

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