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Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Maybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food. Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.

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To be fair, artificial womb technology would really mess with society.

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Yes, yes. Dodos. The endgame of this is Dodos.

Yes, first they'll focus on normal dodos. Then, they'll try very large Dodos. After that, very, very ancient dodos. Followed by island dodos. Then they might set up a whole island that people can visit, full of all kinds of dodos. They'll do tours with self driving cars so people can see all the dodos from a safe distance.

One thing is for sure: they'll still be using a UNIX system

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Is this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?

A velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.

[Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion.

You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos.

Human cloning on the other hand...

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Maybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food. Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.

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"very stupid and uneducated thing to suggest"

1. Take a common trope in fiction and research for a hundred years. With long known commonly linked ramifications.

2. A company actually starts doing it.

3. Suggest a link

4. -> Call it Stupid.

Yeah. Don't worry about it at all. Nothing to see here.

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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I've just started listening to the book "Brave new world" (no spoilers please!) and this is literally how the book begins (but with humans) - what could possibly go wrong!

No spoilers, but I used to think, along the lines of Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that Brave New World wound up being the more accurate picture of future society than 1984, despite being less well-known and referenced in cultural consciousness.

Unfortunately, it seems like the former may be enabling the latter, so we may end up with a “porque no los dos” situation.

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