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Every year you wait, your sperms carry more and more mutations.
Sperm frozen in a foreign cryobank since 2017
Nice. (Why foreign?)
CRISPR-baby scientist fired by university
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Re: CRISPR-baby scientist fired by university
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Because it will most likely lead to inhumane atrocities that would turn the general public against the technology for a generation
This anti-science stance is one based on fear, and that's not how society advances. Nothing should be banned from experiment and testing in controlled labs. Banning things preemptively out of fear is a sorry display of hubris. We do not know what technologies will be good or bad until we research and try them.
My perspective is an attempt to save this branch of research from annihilation in the public eye. This type of alteration of human beings is a supremely sensitive subject. Women are hardly permitted abortions in peace without bringing down political hell on them. What makes you think this research would not attract similar or worse scrutiny unless it is conducted with a degree of caution that would be excessive in any other endeavor?
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You could be right, but I think you're being a bit pessimistic. We're nowhere near fine-tuning complex traits like intelligence and strength, but I could see it happening within all of our lifetimes.
I wish you were right, but I have my doubts. Some people familiar with writing software think the DNA is some type of very long program written in some unknown language. If only we could decipher the language. In reality, there is no language. The genes are recipes to build some nano-machines (the proteins). That's it. Some of us posses a certain version of a protein, some posses another one. Everything is emergent p…
We cant even do the 3-body problem; it's -trivial- but still not a closed solution.
We seem to be good at coming up with approximations and ways to exert selection pressure.. but when we let our digital approximations go analog/realware, the results are difficult to use... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....