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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.
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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...
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[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...
It's been a while since high school biology class, and I can't ask my sister right now, but I don't think humans are born in eggs. What does an artificial egg hatching chickens have to do with cloning humans?
... probably just easier to grow babies in a tube
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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.
If we wanted to pump out human slaves now, I don't think the main obstacle is that we can't find enough women to bear them.
If they are made, we can re-label them as machines and give them lesser rights. And make ourselves feel better about treating them as lower class by some 'justification', like they don't have souls.
Perhaps some gene editing to give them 'blue' skin, some non-historically-biased-color to identify them.
Really. There are ton of books with these themes already. I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said, and now a company is doing it, so why am I getting downvoted.
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To be fair, artificial womb technology would really mess with society.
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!
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If we wanted to pump out human slaves now, I don't think the main obstacle is that we can't find enough women to bear them.
If they are born of woman, they would be human. If they are made, we can re-label them as machines and give them lesser rights. And make ourselves feel better about treating them as lower class by some 'justification', like they don't have souls. Perhaps some gene editing to give them 'blue' skin, some non-historically-biased-color to identify them. Really. There are ton of books with these themes already. I'm not sa…
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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...