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Something that would rapidly spread back into their own highly dense population centres and wipe them out? For the most part world leaders aren’t this stupid. Mostly.
And what happens once discarded gene-editing technology is available to 14-year olds? There are few technologies in history, including nuclear, that haven't eventually been available to curious teenagers.
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Something that would rapidly spread back into their own highly dense population centres and wipe them out? For the most part world leaders aren’t this stupid. Mostly.
And what happens once discarded gene-editing technology is available to 14-year olds? There are few technologies in history, including nuclear, that haven't eventually been available to curious teenagers.
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Indeed. DNA is the most fucking complex and complicated programming language. We have barely any understanding of how the whole thing hangs together, let alone how it's parsed and written, and how it all translates from stem cells to whole organs, an immune system, the complex interrelation between organs, the nervous system, the whole gamut. And that's not even touching on the nature of mind and consciousness in rel…
It's like if you had a version of C that replaced all compilation errors with undefined behavior.
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I imagine that viruses could very much be ‘loyal’- if we’re gene editing you could not so theoretically target ethnic-specific genes to attack.
If viruses can jump between animals and humans, they can jump between ethnicities.
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I imagine that viruses could very much be ‘loyal’- if we’re gene editing you could not so theoretically target ethnic-specific genes to attack.
The virus could very easily evolve to target a broader profile.
This just in: fucking with stuff we don't fully understand has negative consequences we don't fully understand. I'm grateful this is happening, otherwise our hubris might get too out if hand.
So, should we put laws in place to prevent that kind of fuck up or is the "whataboutinnovation" screaming horde already owning the debate ? /s edit: it's a loaded question. It happened with the agro-industry and it's happening with the AI industry and the biotech industry right now.